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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships - Call Open

The 2025 call for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open. Deadline 23rd May 2025

Calls for Expressions of Interest. Deadline 23rd May 2025

European Fellowships

The School of Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) welcomes Expressions of Interest from postdoctoral researchers with an excellent track record to apply jointly, with a QMUL host supervisor, to the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.

What does the fellowship offer?

The Fellowship is a prestigious EU funding scheme which supports mobility, career development and training in Europe and beyond. The fellowship offers a 12-24 months’ highly competitive salary and research/training funds.

What does the Fellowship entail?

European Fellowships comprise a personalised, well-structured and feasible research and training project with optional secondment for 12- 24 month fellowship. It must show a ‘best fit’ between your and PI supervisor’s expertise, two way knowledge transfer, research outcomes and wider impacts.

It offers a highly competitive salary and research/training/networking budget based on EC set allowances.

The School welcomes applications in all areas of expertise.

Eligibility

  • You can be of any age and nationality, but your main activity (work/studies) must not have been in the UK for more than 12 months in the last 36 months prior to the EC MSCA PF call deadline of 10th September 2025
  • You must have a PhD at the date of the EC call deadline 10th September 2025
  • You cannot have more than 8 years of research experience after the PhD was awarded. Years of experience outside research, research outside Europe for reintegrating nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries and career breaks (e.g. due to parental leave) will not be taken into account.

How to Apply

This is a two-step process. Candidates will be internally selected by the School. Selected candidates will then develop a research proposal jointly with the assigned supervisor for submission to the European Commission.

Internal QMUL deadline

Expression of interest for the first step must be submitted to the School Research Manager (dolresearch@qmul.ac.uk), by 5pm, Friday 23rd May 2025. The EOI must include:

  1. CV, including a full list of publications (max. two pages)
  2. Two page outline of your research proposal and career goals (how your research is original and innovative and potential impact and how it will advance your career). And how you will contribute to the research profile of the School.
  3. A statement confirming how you meet the MSCA-2025-PF eligibility criteria.

Following EOI results, selected candidates will then prepare the EC proposal with matched PI supervisor using EC guidance and templates supported by QMUL IRI EU pre award who provide additional guidance materials and application technical support.

QMUL was awarded nearly 70 Horizon 2020 individual fellowships and  ranked 9th in the UK and 18th in Europe for H2020 fellowships and hosts over 20 successfully evaluated Horizon Europe fellowships.

EC Funding Deadline

The EC MSCA-PF (2025) deadline date is 10th September 2025.

 

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