A new Slovak scheme will fund excellent applicants that failed to get funding from the EU’s oversubscribed MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme.
Slovakia will use money from the EU recovery fund, which countries can allocate as they see fit, to finance fellowships for researchers that reached the minimum threshold for receiving EU funding but didn’t due to budget constraints. These are holders of the so-called Seal of Excellence, a consolation prize for projects that are good enough to receive EU funding based on excellence.