MSCA-PF: LaTeX Template

LaTeX class and template for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow grant applications. This is currently geared towards the templates from the 2022 call, but contributions for updates to future requirements are more than welcome!

• Details and original template is provided here (calls are updated each year).
• For a docx version of the template, you must start the submission process. The template will then be available on the right-hand side in a section named "Download Part B templates".
• For a similar template for the Doctoral Network see msca-dn.

Caution: Only the 2022 template was submitted and deemed eligible by the Horizon program. Newer versions simply updated based on the official template. Reporting any discrepancies is highly appreciated!

Fonts

The official MSCA guidelines require the Times New Roman font on Windows or macOS and the Nimbus Roman font on Linux. When using PDFLaTeX this package uses the mathptmx font. When using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, we try to load the Times New Roman font and, if it is not available, the Nimbus Roman font.

If these do not work for you, you can load fonts yourself using e.g.

% on PDFLaTeX
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtxmath}

% on XeLaTeX / LuaLaTeX
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}

Building

The resulting PDF files are included for easy viewing, but it is recommended to build the two parts with e.g. latexmk as follows

latexmk -pdflua msca-pf-part-b1-template.tex
latexmk -pdflua msca-pf-part-b2-template.tex

Functionality

This packages provides the msca-pf class that is based on the KOMA-script scrartcl class and accepts any options meant for it. It can be used as

\documentclass[11pt,layoutgrid,draftproposal]{msca-pf}

% ... preamble ...

\begin{document}

% ... content ...

\end{document}

The class has two options meant for drafting:

• layoutgrid: overlays a grid on top of each page to check margins and other alignment issues.
• draftproposal: adds helpful drafting options, such as line numbers and a time stamp.

It also provides a few useful commands that can be used in the proposal:

• mscaidentifier: the call identifier, e.g. HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01.
• mscaproject: the acronym for the project.
• msctable: a wrapper around tabular that can be used in the exact same way, but imposes a consistent font size and formatting for tables.
• msclongtable: a wrapper around longtable similar to msctable (allows tables across multiple pages).
• cvitem: used as \cvline{dates}{main}{details}{location} to add a simple line to the required CV.
• cvdetail: used as \cvdetail{name}{description} to add properly aligned comments to entries.
• cvpub: used as \cvpub{date}{authors}{title}{journal} to add a publication.