MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships

European Commission – European Research Executive Agency (REA)

Europe's largest individual postdoctoral fellowship, open to every discipline and to researchers of any nationality, funding a move to a host organisation in another country for advanced training and an independent project. The inter-sectoral strand matters for this field: the host can be a non-academic organisation, so a social work postdoc can be based in an NGO, a public agency or a service provider rather than a university department. Because the fellowship is portable and the project is the applicant's own, it is one of the few European routes to genuine early-career independence across b

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)No allowance figures are published on this overview page; MSCA unit costs (living, mobility, family allowances) are set in the work programme. The 2026 call has a total budget reported at EUR 399.05 million across roughly 1,600 fellowships, but no per-fellowship figure is asserted here.

Timing

Annual cycleAnnual cycle · SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-09 — 26 days awayAnnual call. The 2026 call opened 9 April 2026 and closes 9 September 2026. Evaluation results are expected around February 2027 with grant agreements signed from May 2027.

Who can apply

Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty

Eligibility

Applicants must hold a PhD at the call deadline and are subject to a maximum ceiling of post-PhD research experience plus a mobility rule — the researcher cannot have resided or worked in the host country for more than a limited period in the years immediately before the deadline. Nationality is not a gate. The application is submitted jointly with the host organisation, which must be established in an EU Member State or Horizon-associated country (Global Fellowships add an outgoing phase elsewhere). The overview page points to a separate eligibility page for the exact thresholds, which are no

SSWR clusters

Topics

postdoctoral mobility · inter-sectoral placement · advanced training

Apply at

https://rea.ec.europa.eu/funding-and-grants/horizon-europe-marie-sklodowska-curie-actions/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships_en

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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

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