MSCA award €257 million to postdoctoral fellows in 2022
16 february, 2023≈ 2 min read
The European Commission will award €257 million to 1,235 post-doctoral researchers to work at top universities, research centres, private and public organisation and small and medium-sized enterprises.
The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 7,044 applications for this call, 17.5% of which were selected for funding.
The Commission will award
- €218.5 million to 1,093 researchers through European Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing them to carry out their projects in the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe
- €38.5 million for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing 142 researchers to carry out research outside the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe, mostly in the United States, Switzerland, Canada and Australia, before returning back to Europe
Female applicants represent 43% of the awardees. Selected applicants represent nearly 80 nationalities and will work across 48 countries in Europe and the rest of the world.
The projects selected span all scientific disciplines
- social sciences and humanities (24.5%)
- life sciences (21.3%)
- information sciences and engineering (13.9%)
- chemistry (13.8%)
- physics (11.6%)
- environment and geosciences (10.9%)
- mathematics (2.2%)
- economic sciences (1.9%).