MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. The fellowships are open to excellent researchers of any nationality and encourage work on research and innovation projects in both academic and non-academic sectors. The scheme is open to researchers wishing to reintegrate in Europe, those who are displaced by conflict, as well as researchers with high potential who are seeking to restart their careers in research. Fellowships are provided to excellent researchers undertaking international mobility either to or between EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries, as well as to non-associated Third Countries. Applications are made jointly by the researcher and a beneficiary in the academic or non-academic sector. European Postdoctoral Fellowships allow researchers of any nationality to come to Europe or move within Europe for 12-24 months. Global Postdoctoral Fellowships are for European nationals or long-term residents who wish to work in non-associated Third Countries with an outgoing phase of 12-24 months and a mandatory 12-month return phase to Europe.