19^th April, 2021

CRAG received 60 applications to the 1^st call of the AGenT programme. The evaluation process consisted of 3 stages:

1. Administrative eligibility check: AGenT Project Manager checked if applicants fulfilled the eligibility rules and submitted all the requested documents. After this phase, 30 out of 60 applications were considered eligible.
2. Assessment Process: a selection committee formed by external independent experts from recognized national and international organisations conducted a remote evaluation of the proposal. Each proposal was evaluated by three experts. After this phase, 20 candidates were invited for interview.
3. Interviews: a selection committee formed by external independent experts from recognized national and international organisations conducted the interviews through Zoom. In each interviews participated three external experts and the AGenT project manager (representing also CRAG’s Women in Science Committee) as an observer. 18 candidates accepted to participate in the interviews.

Once the interviews were completed, the final score for each applicant was calculated based on the score of the Assessment Process (weight 60%) and the score of the Interview (weight 40%):

Ranking	Reference	Evaluation Assessment Score (a)	Interview Score (b)	Final Score (c)= 0,6(a) + 0,4(b)
1	20-48	85,3	97,7	90,3
2	20-35	87,0	91,0	88,6
3	20-54	86,7	88,7	87,5
4	20-47	86,8	84,3	85,8
5	20-34	76,3	96,0	84,2
6	20-43	80,3	87,0	83,0
7	20-41	77,5	89,7	82,4
8	20-40	78,0	88,3	82,1
9	20-60	82,7	76,0	80,0
10	20-29	79,7	80,0	79,8
11	20-36	83,0	73,3	79,1
12	20-39	74,7	79,3	76,5
13	20-38	75,7	72,7	74,5
14	20-37	74,3	74,0	74,2
15	20-53	73,8	74,0	73,9
16	20-51	80,2	63,3	73,4
17	20-59	76,7	57,3	68,9
18	20-44	73,0	49,7	63,7

The ten top candidates (ranking positions 1 through 10) have been invited to join CRAG.

Statistics

	Applications	Eligible	Invited to interview	Selected
TOTAL	60	30	20	10
Female	23 (38,3%)	14 (46,7%)	10 (50%)	7 (70%)
Male	37 (61,7%)	16 (53,3%)	10 (50%)	3 (30%)
International	58 (96,7%)	29 (96,7%)	19 (95%)	9 (90%)

A total of 17 different evaluators participated in the selection process, 23,5 % from national and 76,5% from international institutions. 53% of the evaluators were women and 47% were men.