Timeline
- 9 April 2025: Launch of the call for proposals
- 10 September 2025: Deadline for submitting proposals
- February 2026: Notification of call results to applicants (TBC)
- June 2026: Grant agreement signature for successful projects (TBC)
- June 2026: First EU-funded projects start (TBC)
The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. MSCA-PF are open to excellent researchers of any nationality. All research fields can be funded. Funding covers the costs of the researcher's salary (with a supplement for those with family), as well as training, research and networking costs.
Two types of fellowships to come to Pisa
If the University of Pisa (UNIPI) is the host institution, the following rules apply:
- European Fellowship: open to researchers of any nationality and from any country who decide to come to UNIPI for a period of 12-24 months. To come to UNIPI, the researcher must not have spent more than 12 months in Italy in the last three years.
- Global Fellowships: aimed at researchers of European citizenship or who have been living in Europe for a long time. The fellowship allows researchers to spend a period of 12-24 months in a non-European institution and to return to UNIPI for 12 months. In this case, the researcher must not have spent more than 12 months in the last three years in the chosen non-European country.
Who can apply
Researchers with a PhD degree at the time of the deadline for applications and no more than 8 years of experience in research from the date of the award of their PhD degree are eligible. Extentions are possible under specific conditions; check your eligibility through the EC self-assessement tool.
UNIPI Support service
The support service for the call HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF-01 will be structured as follows:
- "Hosting offers" will be published on EURAXESS and on the UNIPI website in April 2025.
- On 09/04/2025 will be held the event "Come scrivere una proposta di successo MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships in Horizon Europe", organised by APRE (national contact point for Horizon Europe).
- The Research Development Unit organises two collective online training/information events in May and June 2025, reserved to applicants to MSCA-PF 2025 call with UNIPI as beneficiary. The events will not be recorded, but the slides will be made available.
- 27/05/2025 h. 10:00 - 11:30. Title: "Proposal template: Part A and Part B1 - Chapter 1: Excellence"
- 20/06/2025 h. 10:00 - 11:30. Title: "Proposal template: Part B1 - Chapter 2: Impact, Part B1 - Chapter 3: Quality and Efficiency of the implementation and Part B2"
- The Research Development Unit will develop a toolkit for candidates.
- Revision of proposals: Individual candidates - identified and communicated to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. before 30/06/2025 - will submit the complete proposals (print-out Part A and Part B1 and B2, all sections) to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. by 20/08/2025 (no revisions will be made to incomplete proposals and to proposals received after the deadline).
- The Research Development Unit will conduct one round of revisions of the proposals and will subsequently provide the feedback on the proposals to individual candidates by 05/09/2025.
CONTACTS
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