MSCA PF - Find a host organisation in Europe

Are you interested in a two-year postdoc stay in Europe funded by the European Commission to work on your dream project? Then the highly prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships be should be on your radar.

Latin American and the Caribbean-based researchers interested in doing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Europe can submit a project to the MSCA PF call.

To apply for the fellowship, the candidate has to secure the support of a host organisation based in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country that is willing to host him or her for the duration of the MSCA PF fellowship. The host institution can be public or private, from the academy or not.

Where can you find host institutions /supervisors in Europe to host your MSCA postdoctoral fellowship?

1. EURAXESS Hosting portal

Interested candidates who do not have a partner organisation in Europe may search for organisations wishing to host foreign candidates for the 2026 MSCA PF Call on the EURAXESS Hosting portal following the link below:

Many hosting offers include the option of attending a master class to support candidates in the proposal preparation!

Please, note that some institutions even organise pre-selection and training activities to support your proposal writing. See examples below:

• [France] Inria is offering over 85 MSCA PF hosting positions for 2026 in Digital Science and Technology, with training sessions to help candidates strengthen their proposals. First webinar: 31 March 2026. View full list of offers and register
• [Belgium] UCLouvain MSCA PF Master Class, 21-22 May 2026 - for candidates planning to apply with UCLouvain as host. Send your CV and supervisor name to sara.wilmet@uclouvain.be by 17 April 2026.
• [Malta] Xjenza Malta PF2MT-Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Scheme : covers travel and accommodation for PhD holders to attend a masterclass and submit an MSCA PF proposal with a Maltese host. Deadline: 2 June 2026, 12:00 CET.

2. Explore your own network, ask your supervisor, and contact any institution of your interest in Europe to discuss your project.

Any public or private institution, academic or not, based in Europe can host MSCA PF. In the case of the Global fellowship, the third-country institution is considered as a partner institution.

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3. Use the MSCA matchmaking platform.

4. Look at the Partner search tool on the Funding & Tender Portal

MSCA PF 2026 - Partner search

5. Watch the video recording of our webinar 2025 with potential hosts from 12 countries

EURAXESS Worldwide organised webinars where over 50 research institutions from 12 European countries pitched their hosting offers to potential researchers from around the world who were interested in applying for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship’s 2025 call (MSCA PF). Each research institution left their contact information at the end of their presentation (which you can find below), so you can reach out to them directly in case of interest.

Introduction to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 

MSCA PF Hosting Offers in Austria

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Express the interest of your LAC entity to host MSCA applicants

Researchers based in Europe have the possibility to carry out a postdoctoral stay in LAC or any other third country thanks to the MSCA Postdoctoral Global Fellowship. Why not at your university, research institute or company in LAC?

If you are willing to host Europe-based Marie Curie applicants, sign up your organisation with EURAXESS now and publish a hosting offer for free on the portal. Read here how to express your institution’s interest.

ABOUT THE MSCA PF:

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to experienced researchers from across the world.

Applicants need a doctoral degree by the time of the call deadline with a maximum of 8 years of research experience after completing their PhD.

All research areas can be funded. MSCA Fellows come from a wide variety of disciplines – from physics to linguistics, and from health-sciences to mathematical modelling.

Fellowships are held in the EU or associated countries and last for one to two years. In the case of Global Fellowships, researchers have an outgoing period of up to 2 years to any country in the world, including in LAC.

MSCA PFs can also include a secondment period of up to half of the standard fellowship duration in another organisation worldwide (novelty 2026).

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