This fellowship is the most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship (cf. salary of Marie Skłodowska-Curie ) in Europe which is granted by the European Commission. It is intended to help junior researchers (i.e. PhD holders or a researcher with equivalent qualifications) to practice independence to some extent in their academic careers to become ultimately group leaders/independent researchers after the termination of the MSC-IF fellowship. In this, we aim to answer the following question with the details: What is the Marie Curie Fellowship?

Please note that there is another type of this funding for PhD which is known as ITN. You can read more about that in our previous post (PhD position as ITN).

Application deadline:

September (for the fellowship to start earliest from next April)

Place of work:

(Almost) Every country in the world.

Duration:

  • 24 months for a European fellowship
  • 36 months for global fellowship

Results announcements

5 months after the application deadline (February of the next following year)

Success rate

Around 10%

Mobility rules

You should not have worked or lived more than 12 months in the country to which you are moving in the last 3 years before the application

Application process

The PhD holder (applicant) should find a faculty (a host) in a university or a research institute and get his/her agreement to support him/her as a host. Then the applicant should write a proposal in the direction of his/her own activities and research area of the host faculty. Apparently, the proposal should be innovative and highly risky in a way that in the case of success could enhance the applicant and host reputation in the research field. The European Commission assesses the written proposal, and the proposal with the highest grade of evaluation will be granted. Currently (2018), the proposal with grades of around 90% and more is likely to be granted. In another post, we explained how to write a successful Fellowship. You can read also about the remuneration under this program on another page as a salary of MCS-IF fellowship. 

Here, you can find more details about this Fellowship (MSC-IF):

Finally, You can find new vacancies on our Home Page.

Would you like to know the salary amount of PhD and postdoc positions in Europe? 

You can find all the available full-funded PhD positions in different countries here.

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