PF: How should the status of honorary researcher be considered towards the mobility rule if it is a mere association to a lab, with no working contract and no salary, but an agreement ensuring necessary social coverage to officially exercise a research activity in this lab?

If, besides the activity of honorary researcher, the applicant also has a working contract with another lab, the activity of honorary researcher shall not be taken into account for the mobility rule, as it is not a 'main activity'. According to the MSCA Work Programme 2023-2025 ‘Recruited researchers must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline’. When taking into consideration the country of the activity (work, studies, etc.), what counts is the country where the main activity (main activity understood as an activity above 50%) is taking place.