The University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium invites outstanding postdoctoral researchers to co-apply with ULiège supervisors to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-2024-Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF), which has a submission deadline on September 11, 2024.
The MSCA-PF is an excellent funding opportunity for post-PhD researchers to advance their research and career ambitions. The grant covers personnel costs, which consists of living + mobility + family/special needs (if applicable) monthly allowances, as well as research, training and networking contributions. Postdoctoral fellows can be hosted by the ULiège for either European (12-24 month period) or Global (12-month mandatory return period after a 12-24 month outgoing phase) fellowships. Please see the basic eligibility conditions listed below.
The ULiège provides a dynamic research and training environment for postdocs in the domains of social sciences and humanities, life sciences, and physical sciences and engineering. Potential supervisors are exceptional professors and researchers from the various faculties, departments and research units (https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9038292/en/faculties-departments-and-research-units). Research groups with top publications and valorisation outputs could be selected as host laboratories. Interested applicants are invited to learn about the different research units (https://www.recherche.uliege.be/cms/c_9022737/en/research-units) and research projects (https://www.recherche.uliege.be/cms/c_9307308/en/research-domains) and to directly contact their preferred supervisors.
Online Masterclass
Proposal preparation support for selected applicants will be provided by ULiège-RISE, which includes a two-day online Masterclass that will be organized on June 04 and 06, 2024. Potential applicants are expected to make themselves available on both these two days.
A confirmed agreement between the postdoctoral applicant and the ULiège supervisor is a pre-requisite for proposal preparation support and participation in the Masterclass. Postdoctoral applicants themselves should directly contact their preferred supervisors and obtain the supervisors' agreement for co-applying for the MSCA-PF fellowship.
Postdoctoral applicants with a confirmed ULiège supervisor should complete the online application form latest by May 17, 2024. Applicants from outside Belgium are encouraged to complete the online form in advance of this closing date. Selected applicants will be informed by email latest by May 27, 2024.
Application form
Basic eligibility conditions for MSCA postdoctoral researchers:
- Candidate researchers should either be in a possession of a doctoral degree or have completed successful defense of their PhD thesis by September 11, 2024;
- Candidate researchers must have a maximum of 8 years full-time research experience from the PhD award date until September 11, 2024. Periods of inactivity in research (e.g. unemployment, periods of employment outside research, parental or sick leave) do not count towards the period of research experience.
- For European fellowships, candidate researchers could be of any nationality and must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Belgium for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before September 11, 2024.
- For Global fellowships, candidate researchers must be European nationals or longterm residents and must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the third country for the outgoing phase for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before September 11, 2024.
For inquiries and additional information, please email "msca@uliege.be" with the subject: "ULIEGE-MSCA-2024-PF".
