MSCA info session: EU funding for researcher mobility

Join us for a webinar on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European Union’s reference program for doctoral education and postdoctoral training. Designed in collaboration with Western University's Postdoctoral Services and open to the public, EURAXESS North America will share information on opportunities available under all MSCA programs, with a focus on the Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF), a mobility scheme that targets researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills, and develop their careers. PFs help researchers gain experience in other countries, disciplines, and non-academic sectors. Whether you are a researcher interested in a postdoc (in Europe or anywhere in the world), someone considering a PhD in Europe, a faculty member who wants to recruit postdocs (paid by the EU), or an administrator who wants to understand the ins and outs of this program for your researchers, take advantage of this opportunity to connect with experts.

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The webinar will take place on Monday, March 31st, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET (9:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM CEST, convert to your local time zone here). The event will be held on Zoom in English, and attendance is free but registration is required.

The current call for the Postdoctoral Fellowships opens soon and will close on September 10th, 2025.

Speakers will include, among others:

Phivos Phylactou is a cognitive neuroscientist studying the neural underpinnings of working memory. He currently works as a post-doc at the University of Western Ontario, utilising a plethora of methods for his research, including brain stimulation and imaging. In 2019, he graduated as the valedictorian with a BSc in Psychology from Frederick University, Cyprus and received his PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the Cyprus University of Technology in 2023. Despite the early stage of his career, his research has attracted more than half a million dollars of funding through various awards, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship.

Xavier Eekhout is a biologist who worked as a researcher in the Animal Sound Library (www.fonozoo.com) of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) until he specialized in EU project management. After being the scientific manager on behalf CSIC in the FP6 Network of Excellence EDIT
(Towards a European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy), he started working in FECYT in 2011 where he has participated in several FP7 and H2020 projects linked to the EURAXESS initiative and researcher career development in general. Apart from EU projects, Xavier works in the management of the EURAXESS Spain network coordinated by FECYT and since the beginning of Horizon Europe in 2021, he is also MSCA NCP for Spain.

Mihaela Harmos, Ph.D. and RCIC (Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant) has been managing the postdoctoral services within the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Western University for more than 14 years. In 2013, she has co-founded the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Administrators (CAPA/ACAP) – an organization which aims to share best practices and to promote the environment for successful postdoctoral training.

Sabina Cveček is the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) North America Chapter Chair and an MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research focuses on contextualizing prehistoric households, kinship, and social organization in the eastern Mediterranean from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives. She earned her Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Vienna in 2021 and received the City of Vienna Promotion Award in 2023. She is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and co-chair of the “Archaeology and Gender in Europe” network of the European Association of Archaeologists.