The programme Horizon Europe is opening the call for proposals of projects Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF). Deadline is 10. 9. 2025.

The MSCA-PF grant supports an individual research stay (1-2 years) connected with international mobility (the project must take place in a country different from where the researcher has currently worked or studied). The researcher (applicant – postdoc) must possess a PhD degree and have less than 8 years of full-time research experience since obtaining it. The project can be in any research field. The researcher should prepare the proposal in close collaboration with the potential supervisor at the host organisation.

► On 3. and 4. 6. 2025, an online workshop for applicants will be organised by the Czech National Contact Point. Event webpage with detailed instructions and link for registration.
We highly recommend participation in this workshop.

If you plan to apply for an MSCA-PF project that would be carried out at the Faculty of Science, Charles University (CU), as researcher (applicant – postdoc) or as supervisor, please, contact as soon as possible the Project Management Department (Ludmila Součková, ludmila.souckova@natur.cuni.cz) and follow the internal guidelines:
Internal guidelines for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2025

Note: The researcher (applicant – postdoc) coming from abroad must firstly themselves contact his/her potential supervisor at the Faculty of Science CU and reach an agreement with this potential supervisor on preparation of the proposal. (The Project Management Department does not facilitate this contact.)

If, on the other hand, you currently work or study at the Faculty of Science CU and are preparing an MSCA-PF project to be carried out at a foreign organisation, we can give you some limited support during proposal preparation, and therefore, we encourage you to also contact the Project Management Department.

MSCA-PF is an interesting opportunity for:

  • researchers who want to go on postdoctoral research stay abroad,
  • researchers who have been doing research abroad (for at least 2 years) and are returning,
  • researchers who have recently come (or returned) from abroad,
  • leaders of research teams who want to bring to their research group a postdoc from any foreign country.

Eligibility conditions for the researcher (applicant – postdoc):

  • He/she must at the date of the call deadline hold the PhD degree (he/she doesn’t need to have the certificate itself, but the successful defence of the PhD thesis must have taken place.)
  • At the call deadline, the researcher must have a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research since obtaining the PhD degree.
    Years of experience outside research and career breaks, e.g. due to parental leave, won’t be taken into account. Also, in case of nationals or long-term residents of EU member states or Horizon Europe associated countries who wish to reintegrate to Europe from a “third country” (neither EU member state nor a Horizon Europe associated country), years of experience in research in “third countries” won’t be taken into account.
  • In the country, where the fellowship takes place, the researcher must fulfil the mobility rule: He/she must not have carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in this country for more than 12 months in the 3 years before the call deadline.
    By the “country of the main activity” is meant both the country where the researcher was physically based and the country of the institution for which the main activity was performed.

Types of MSCA-PF projects:

  • European Postdoctoral Fellowships
    12–24 months research stay at a host organisation in an EU member state or a country associated to Horizon Europe. The researcher must fulfil the mobility rule in the host organisation country and can be of any nationality.
  • Global Postdoctoral Fellowships
    12–24 months research stay at a host organisation in a “third country” (neither EU member state nor a Horizon Europe associated country) where the researcher fulfils the mobility rule. This outgoing phase must be followed by a compulsory 12-month reintegration phase at a “sending organisation” in an EU member state or a Horizon Europe associated country (the mobility rule doesn’t have to be fulfilled in this “reintegration country”). The reintegration phase must be already described in the proposal and is covered by the grant. The researcher must be of the nationality of an EU member state or a Horizon Europe associated country or a long-term resident of such country.

Budget

  • Budget is determined by the number of months for which the researcher (the supported postdoc) is employed on the project by the host organisation.
  • For one “person-month” it consists of: a fixed amount for personnel costs of the researcher (amount depends on the country of the host organisation and on the family status of the researcher), EUR 1600 for research, training and networking costs, and EUR 1200 for management and indirect costs.

Restriction on resubmissions: A researcher (applicant – postdoc) who applied for MSCA-PF in the 2024 call and received a score of less than 70% cannot apply again in the MSCA-PF 2025 call with the same host organisation (but they can re-apply with a different host organisation).

Contact point for MSCA pre-award support at the Faculty of Science: Ludmila Součková. If you have any questions about MSCA-PF, please do not hesitate to ask.

 

News published by Ludmila Součková on 9. 5. 2025.
Updated 14. 5. 2025 (link to the June workshop added).
Updated 15. 5. 2025 (link to official ammended Work Programme added).

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