Career development opportunities after PhD: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Horizon Europe MSCA PF (Postdoctoral Fellowship) calls offer researchers a very attractive opportunity to develop their research career during the eight research years following their PhD. The introduction to the MSCA Work Programme 20232025, the key document setting out the purpose, conditions and criteria of the MSCA calls, states that »The European Union needs a strong, resilient, flexible and creative human resource base, with the right combination of skills to match the future needs of the labour market, to innovate and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit… In this context, the Union must reinforce its efforts to encourage more young women and men to make a career in research, promote its attractiveness for top talents from around the world, retain its own researchers and reintegrate those working elsewhere. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are the main instrument at Unionlevel to do so«.