EURAXESS India congratulates all 84 researchers from India who have been awarded the 2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships. Indian researchers are the largest beneficiaries of the fellowship outside Europe, and third overall behind researchers from Italy and Spain.
The European Commission will support a total of 1156 experienced post-doctoral researchers with €242 million to work at top universities, research centres, private organisations and small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe and the rest of the world. The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 8356 applications for this call.
The Commission will award €206 million to 1025 researchers through European Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing them to carry out their projects in the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe.
The Commission earmarked €36 million for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships, allowing 131 researchers to carry out research outside the EU or countries associated to Horizon Europe.
Female applicants represent 43% of the awardees.
Most of the projects selected are in the fields of
- social sciences and humanities (24%)
- life sciences (22%)
- chemistry (14%)
- environment and geosciences (12%)
An overview of the evaluation results, cut-off scores and statistics has been published on the page of the call MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021. Once the grant agreements are finalised, the complete list of funded projects will be published on the same page and on CORDIS.
Next funding round is coming soon
The next call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will open on 12 May 2022.
You will find more information on the MSCA website on how to apply.