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MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2027

Announced, not yet open · HORIZON TMA MSCA Cofund Postdoctoral programme · HORIZON-MSCA-2027-COFUND-02-01

Next cut-off
06 Apr '27
in 212 days
Call budget
€51M
across every grant here
Grants expected
,
not published for this call
Funding rate
100%
the full cost of the action

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

For supported researchers:

  • Concrete career prospects and increased career stability;
  • Deeper and more diverse set of research-related, academic and transferable skills and competences, leading to greater autonomy.

For participating organisations:

  • Better alignment of research and Human Resources practices, including recruitment, career accession and progression systems, at participating organisation(s) with the European Charter for Researchers and the Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe and the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment;
  • Increased global attractiveness, visibility and reputation of the participating organisation(s);
  • Stronger R&I and teaching capacity and output;
  • Increased contribution to the local, regional and/or national socio-economic ecosystems;
  • Stronger synergies across institutional research, management and teaching structures.

Scope:

The objective of this scheme is to tackle brain drain and precarity of researchers' careers to make Europe more attractive to the most promising young talents. Applicants submit proposals for talent recruitment programmes that will provide researchers holding a doctoral degree with excellent research and academic opportunities, potentially coupled with management activities, to lead them to concrete and attractive career prospects. This will have an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at institutional, regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA Choose Europe for Science.

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort6–8 weekssingle submission
Partner search4–8 weeksruns in parallel, and it is the part that slips
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

ConditionQuoted from the call, or the rule behind it
Funding rateNot quoted from this call — Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions under the Horizon Europe rules are paid as unit costs covering the full contribution.

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