Applicant information

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open with a deadline of 14 September 2022.

The University of Bath is providing a proposal support service for this year’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postgraduate Fellowships (PF) scheme. Research and Innovation Services (RIS) is providing assistance to Bath's host Principal Investigators (PIs) and fellowship applicants, to help develop their proposals.

The Marie Curie Fellowships provide significant financial support to a Research Fellow for a period of 12-24 months. All research areas are eligible for funding, with the grant providing an allowance to cover living, travel and family costs. In addition, the grant contributes to the training, networking and research costs of the fellow, as well as to the management and indirect costs of the project.

Interested researchers can submit an application together with a host organisation, which can be a university, research institution, business, SME or other organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. All disciplines are eligible for Postdoctoral Fellowships, including research areas covered by the Euratom Research and Training Programme.

Eligibility criteria

Researchers interested in PFs:

• should have a PhD degree at the time of the deadline for applications (Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will also be considered eligible to apply)
• must have a maximum of eight years’ experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree (Years of experience outside research and career breaks will not count towards the above maximum, nor will years of experience in research in third countries, for nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries who wish to reintegrate to Europe)
• should comply with mobility rules: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline

From 2022, resubmission restrictions will apply for applications that received a score below 70% the previous year.

Actions being supported

The actions we are supporting are two types of Postdoctoral Fellowships:

European Postdoctoral Fellowships

Open to researchers moving within Europe or coming to Europe from another part of the world to pursue their research career. These fellowships take place in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country and can last between 1 and 2 years. Researchers of any nationality can apply.

Global Postdoctoral Fellowships

These Fellowships fund the mobility of researchers outside Europe. The fellowship lasts between 2 to 3 years, of which the first 1 to 2 years will be spent in a non-associated Third Country, followed by a mandatory return phase of 1 year to an organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. Only nationals or long-term residents of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries can apply.

Internal timescales

Research and Innovation Services (RIS) is managing the application process for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 and has the following timescales to help manage submissions:

• Monday 01 August 2022: Bath academic to get in touch with their Pre-Award Development Officer (or pre-award@bath.ac.uk)
• Thursday 01 September 2022: Bath academic to have ethical approval in place, and to have added pre-award@bath.ac.uk as a participant to the application on the portal
• Wednesday 14 September 2022: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships closes

Applicant Postdoctoral Fellows

If you are interested in applying for the MSCA PF with Bath as your host institute, please get in touch with Dr Alex Harrison, European Research Development Manager in RIS, who will provide further assistance.

It will help if you have identified in advance a potential host PI for your application. To view open expressions of interest to host MSCA PFs from Bath researchers, please visit the EURAXESS portal, or visit the Bath Research Portal to identify and contact other potential hosts.

See also applying for an MSCA Fellowship hosted by the Bath Beacons in Zero-Carbon Offshore Power.

MSCA IFs and Brexit

Under the current plans for the Association of the UK to the Horizon Europe Programme, the University of Bath is an eligible institute for the MSCA programmes.