MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024

(Ingrid Haug, Andreas Jüttner, 04.2024)

Call essentials

The call is open to researchers of any nationality.

Candidates have to be in possession of a doctoral degree and have a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent (FTE) experience in research, measured from the date of award of the first doctoral degree. All applicants that have received their PhD after 13/09/2015 are automatically eligible to apply provided the remaining eligibility criteria are met (see also self-assessment tool https://rea.ec.europa.eu/docum ent/download/f6ea42a3-6558-4e2b-8494-bf21e75f7004_en?filename=EXT_eligibility_support%20tool% 20for%208%20years_2023_final.xlsx).

The standard duration of these fellowships must be between 12 and 24 months.
Call website (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01-01) https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/call

s/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024.
Note: Due to CERN Regulations we cannot host “Global Postdoctoral Fellowships”

TH process

Once the call is open TH will publish a job advert on SmartRecruiters and distribute through TH-world. Everyone is encouraged to share the information separately with potential candidates (TH SmartRecrtuiters job advert https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ni/CERN/eb247511-0d39-4456-a0e8-534e 5d195d2a-msca-pf-th-2024).

To be considered by TH every applicant has to complete the SmartRecruiters application.

We will discuss applicants in TH Staff meetings and agree whom to accept during the period April-July.

One staff member per candidate is identified as TH contact and supervisor.

Accepted candidates start preparing their application and will be provided with supporting material and information by Ingrid Haug.

Candidates are provided with help by HR and also the Swiss National Contact point (see resources below).

TH tops up the successful candidate's salary to correspond to the one of normal fellows.

EDH process

For each accepted applicant Andreas creates an internal EDH document EDH document.
Every TH contact/supervisor completes the HE Marie Curie (MSCA) template, which then needs to be

attached to the EDH document.
Once submitted the document requires approval of the directorate (submission deadline 21.08.2024)

BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://theory.cern/staff/msca-european-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024)

Important dates:

23.04.2024 Call opening
30.06.2024 TH-internal deadline — this is a soft deadline intended to encourage early applications

30.08.2024 Ingrid Haug is happy to check the admin aspects of your submission if you share your application with her by that date

21.08.2024 submit EDH document
11.09.2024 Deadline for submitting proposals to the European Commission 02.2025 Notification of call results

Resources

On TH website https://theory.cern/staff/guidelines-msca-postdoctoral-fellowship some dos and dont's while writing the application

half-day applicant training by national contact point (to be announced to applicants once or if available) screening of proposals by national contact point (to be announced to applicants once or if available)

There is a "How to apply" by the European Commission: https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.eur opa.eu/actions/how-to-apply

We will update the following CERNBox folder with additional material and information:

https://cernbox.cern.ch/files/spaces/eos/user/i/ischmid/Postdoctoral%20Fellowships%20(former%20I F)/Info-applicants%202024?items-per-page=100&view-mode=resource-table&tiles-size=1&sort-by=mda te&sort-dir=desc