The European Commission will award €260 million to 1,249 post-doctoral researchers to work at top universities, research centres, private and public organisations and small and medium-sized enterprises.
The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 8,039 applications for this call, 15.8% of which were selected for funding.
The Commission will award
- €221.40 million to 1,110 researchers through European Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing them to carry out their projects in the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe
- € 39.07 million for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing 139 researchers to carry out research outside the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe, mostly in the United States, Switzerland, Canada and Japan, before returning back to Europe
Women are 42% of the awardees. Selected applicants represent nearly 80 nationalities and will work in 45 countries in Europe and the rest of the world.
The projects selected span all scientific disciplines
- social sciences and humanities (25.2%)
- life sciences (21.7%)
- information sciences and engineering (13.3%)
- chemistry (14.4%)
- physics (11.35%)
- environment and geosciences (10.2%)
- mathematics (2.15%)
- economic sciences (1.7%)
Among the successful applicants, three postdoctoral fellows have been selected in the field of nuclear research as part of the cooperation between the MSCA and the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2021-2025.
An overview of the evaluation results, cut-off scores and statistics has been published on MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 call page of the Funding and Tenders Opportunities Portal.
Once grant agreements are finalised, the complete list of funded projects will be published on the same page and on CORDIS.
Next steps for successful applicants
Host organisations and researchers have received letters informing them of the outcome of the selection process. They should be able to access the results of the evaluation in their personal area of the Funding and Tenders Opportunities Portal.