MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships – Postdoctoral Fellowships

Start: September 14, 2022 (until 18:00 Kyiv time)

Identification code of the competition on the portal of the European Commission: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01

The purpose of the competition: to expand the creative and innovative potential of researchers with a PhD degree who seek to acquire new skills through professional development, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.

The competition aims to achieve the following goals:

For scholarship holders:

gaining new skills and competencies that will expand career opportunities;
gaining new approaches to research and innovation through interdisciplinary, intersectoral and international experience;
expanding opportunities for interaction and communication with foreign colleagues.

For participating organizations:

improving the quality of research internships;
improving the working conditions of researchers and bringing these conditions in line with European standards set out in the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Employment of Researchers;
improving the institution’s reputation in the international arena;
development of research and innovation potential;
strengthening knowledge transfer.

Who can take part in the competition? – The competition is open to researchers with a PhD degree and up to 8 years of research experience. A consortium is not created to participate in the competition. The application is submitted by an institution located in an EU member state or a country associated with Horizon Europe.

How to take part in the competition? – Applications for participation in the competition are accepted exclusively electronically, through the portal of the European Commission Funding & Tender Opportunities (link to the competition page). The application consists of two parts:

Part A, administrative – is filled in online and contains information about the members of the consortium, the general budget of the project and issues related to the topic of the project;
Part B, technical – contains a technical description of the project. After logging in to the portal, the template (a sample template can be downloaded at the link) of this form can be downloaded from the competition page, after which it will need to be filled out and placed on the portal in PDF format. The total volume of this part should not exceed 10 pages.

You can find more detailed information about the conditions of the competitions by following the link:

competition page on the Funding & Tender Opportunities portal;
work program “Actions of Marie Skladowska-Curie” (see pp. 26-31; 85-94).