Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

The European Commission has announced new calls under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), part of Horizon Europe, in 2024. This year, the MSCA will provide organisations with over €1.25 billion to fund cutting-edge research through excellent doctoral and postdoctoral programmes, collaborative research and innovation projects and research fellowships. These projects will support, provide jobs and train around 10,000 talented researchers from all over the world, at all stages of their career and in all disciplines.

Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to improve the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD.They will help researchers acquire new skills,develop their careers, and gain international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral experience by working in another country. These prestigious fellowships are also a stepping stone in researchers’ careers. They allow them to strengthen research cooperation with leading scientific teams and figures worldwide.

Under this call, the European Commission will support institutional, regional, national and international training and career development programmes for researchers. COFUND allows organisations to create or strenghten their own doctoral and postdoctoral programmes, with the goal of recruiting researchers and attracting international talent, by co-funding a significant part of their cost. Organisations benefitting from such funding need to top it up with their funding own sources.

The MSCA Feedback to Policy call will award up to €2 million to map and assess thematic links between MSCA projects and their contribution to several EU policy priorities. It will also gather feedback from MSCA’s research and innovation community on how to maximise the programme's impact. The European Commission and the European Research Executive Agency (REA) will organise 2 information sessions on 25 April and 29 May 2024.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are organising a satellite event in the run up to the EuroScience Open Forum’s (ESOF) annual conference and exhibition in Katowice, Poland. The programme will feature rich exchanges around practical sessions, dedicated training and activities and will promote both personal and professional connections between participants. MSCA research fellows, alumni, and staff of all career stages, including coordinators, supervisors and research managers are welcome to apply.