MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

For supported postdoctoral fellows:

• Enhanced research and transferable skills and competences, improving employability and career prospects within academia and beyond;

• New mind-sets and approaches to R&I forged through international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary experience;

• Strengthened networking and communication capacities with scientific peers and the general public, broadening research and innovation impact.
For participating organisations:

• Better aligned working conditions for researchers in line with the European Charter for Researchers;

• Improved quality and sustainability of research training and supervision;

• Increased global attractiveness, visibility and reputation;

• Strengthened R&I capacity and output, enhanced knowledge transfer;

• Regular integration of research results into teaching and education.
Expected broader impacts:

• Enhanced creative and innovative potential of postdoctoral researchers;

• Strengthened European human capital in R&I;

• Higher quality of R&I contributing to Europe’s competitiveness and growth;

• Reinforced attractiveness of Europe for R&I and good working conditions;

• Facilitated knowledge transfer and brain circulation across the European Research Area;

• Fostering of open science, innovation and entrepreneurship culture.

Applicants must:

• Be excellent researchers holding a PhD (or equivalent four years’ full-time research experience);

• Submit a joint application with a beneficiary organisation in the academic or non-academic sector established in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country;

• For European Fellowships: be of any nationality and carry out a fellowship of 12–24 months within an EU Member State or Associated Country;

• For Global Fellowships: be European nationals or long-term residents, undertake an outgoing phase of 12–24 months in a non-associated Third Country followed by a mandatory 12-month return phase to an EU or Associated Country host;

• Adhere to specific eligibility for Euratom research areas where applicable;

• Optionally include secondments (up to one-third of duration/outgoing phase, max three months at beneficiary start for Global Fellowships) outside the host organisation, excluding the mandatory return period;

• Optionally request a non-academic placement of up to six months at a different non-academic host in Europe, with added value justification;

• Produce a Career Development Plan submitted as a project deliverable at the start of the action;

• Respect all general admissibility, eligibility, exclusion, financial and operational capacity criteria and comply with the European Charter for Researchers, Horizon Europe General Annexes and relevant Work Programme conditions.