12 May 2025
MSCA opens €404.3 million call for Postdoctoral Fellowships
The European Commission opened the 2025 call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships on 8 May 2025, with a total budget of € 404.3 million.
The grants aim to improve the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD, and will help researchers acquire new skills, develop their careers, and gain international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral experience by working in another country. The prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are also a stepping stone in researchers’ careers. They allow them to strengthen research cooperation with leading scientific teams and figures worldwide.
The call will close on 10 September 2025 and is expected to fund nearly 1650 projects. The call is open to applications in any scientific field, including Euratom research.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to postdoctoral researchers from all over the world, of any nationality and at any career stage, based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe associated country, with a maximum of 8 years of research experience after their PhD.
Researchers applying for a standard European Fellowship with a host organisation in a “widening country” (i.e. a country with lower participation rates in Horizon Europe) can opt in to be considered for the ERA Fellowships call under the WIDERA programme Part of Horizon Europe. Around 45 ERA Fellowships will be awarded to excellent applicants who were not selected under the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call due to budget constraints.
For more information:
Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application