ERA Fellowships
Pays a postdoctoral fellowship for researchers who move to a host organisation in an EU widening country, building research careers outside Europe's traditional science hubs.
This is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship line built specifically for widening countries, run as a single-stage call through the EU Funding & Tenders Portal using the standard MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship form. A researcher and a host organisation -- academic or non-academic -- apply together, and the European Commission pays the fellowship directly to support the researcher's salar…
This topic funds postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of any nationality who move to a host organisation based in a Horizon Europe widening country, building on the main MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme. Applications are made jointly by the researcher and a host organisation in the academic or non-academic sector, and fellows may add a secondment phase of up to one third of the fellowship, plus an optional six-month non-academic placement at the end.
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