EU Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

The European Commission proposes to fund post-doctoral fellowships through the "Postdoctoral fellowship" call for projects, with the objective being to finance research projects by young researchers within the framework of international mobility.

This calls notably includes the Global Postdoctoral Fellowship: the candidate presents a project carried out in collaboration between two institutions, with 2 distinct phases:

• a first phase carried out in a non-EU country, for 12 to 24 months,
• a mandatory return phase, within a host institution in Europe or in a country associated to Horizon Europe, for 12 months.

In the case of a Global Postdoctoral fellow, the candidate must be a native or long-term resident of an EU state or a country associated with Horizon Europe.

The criteria and conditions are:

• Eligibility of the candidate: researcher with a PhD with less than 8 years of research experience after the PhD,
• Mobility obligation: each candidate must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity in the country of application for more than 12 months out of the 36 months preceding 10 September 2025,
• Eligible research themes: all,
• Funding: The European Commission finances 100% of the remuneration of the winners, as well as the costs of the research and indirect costs, on a lump sum basis.

This call for projects will be officially launched on May 9, 2025, and the deadline for submission is September 10, 2025.

For more information, the French contact for MSCA is organizing an online information session on 15/04/2025 from 2pm to 4pm. Registration for this meeting is done here.

Further information is also available here.