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Boost your career with MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships funding at the top Central European research institute
What is the idea behind this MSCA-PF grant?
The MSCA-PF purpose is to support complex career development of young postdocs. The applicant and the supervisor should be complementary and enrich each other with their respective knowledge, expertise and approach. Thus the supervisor must be actively engaged in both the proposal preparation and implementation.
The essence of the proposal is a strong scientific idea and a research plan, but also a plan of both hard and transferrable skills development. The transferrable skills trainings should be organic part of the project and can include IPR, Open science, publication strategy, communication with different targets, management in research, grant writing, etc.
The 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call will be open on April 9, 2025.
Who can apply for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship?
Eligibility:
- the candidate defended Ph.D. thesis at the call deadline (10.9.2025) at the latest
- applies up to 8 years after they defended their Ph.D. thesis
- not having spent in Czechia (host country) more than 12 months during last 3 years
Advantage:
- Ph.D. abroad; experience abroad
- first author´s publication
- very good track record – complementarily matching yourselves/your institution
- international collaboration and their professional networks
- Ph.D. from a prestige university; reputation of her/his Ph.D. supervisor
- independent publication, i.e. WITHOUT supervisor; in SSH – a published book
- track record in non-academic sector; science communication
- involvement in/collaboration with more research groups
- excellent citation track record, prizes and awards…
- EU relevant research (in line with Mission, EU strategies)
- topic with multiple scientific impacts (increases good integration of the fellow)
What's the MSCA-PF funding and contribution?
MSCA-PF cover postdoc salary, but also includes family and mobility allowance, as well as contribution to research, trainings and networking for the whole duration of the project, usually two years.
MSCA-PF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
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| Researcher unit cost in EUR | Institutional unit cost in EUR | |||
| person/month* | person/month | |||
| living allowance | mobility allowance | family allowance** | research, training and networking costs | management and indirect costs |
| 5 990*** | 710 | 660 | 1 000 | 650 |
| Monthly net salary for a MSCA fellow in Czechia is approx. 80 000 CZK, if the fellow comes with a family, then about 85 000 CZK. *Gross salary before taxation and other deductions (social care, health care)! |
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| ** if applicable *** for the living allowance, a country correction coefficient (CCC) applies (for Czechia is 94.1 %) |
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Three chances to win the grant in Czechia with just one application!
MSCA PF is a competitive and prestigious funding scheme with a success rate between 10 and 15 % and is believed to be the stepping stone for getting an ERC starting grant in the future. The best-ranking MSCA PF proposals with a host institution in one of the “widening countries”, such as the Czech Republic, that aren’t funded due to lack of finances will be funded from the budget of the “Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence” of Horizon Europe. The fellow just has to indicate in this application that if unsuccessful, he/she wants to apply for the ERA Fellowship.
After the MSCA PF evaluation is completed, then, if the proposal is not selected for funding but is eligible for ERA Fellowship, it is automatically “resubmitted” to the ERA Fellowship call. Applicants aiming for widening countries have therefore better chances to get funded.
And this is not all! The Czech Republic comes with a special national funding scheme OP JAC from structural funds that aims to attract foreign scientific talents into the country. The same MSCA PF proposal will also be submitted to this national funding scheme. To be eligible for OP JAC scheme, the original MSCA proposal has to obtain at least 70 % score in the evaluation.
MAXIMIZE YOUR CHANCES TO GET YOUR MSCA PF PROJECT FUNDED! |
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| MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship required score > 93 % achived by 10 - 15 % proposals |
ERA Fellowship required score > 91 % achived by 20 – 25 % proposals |
Structural Funds OP JAC required score > 70 % achived by 80 % proposals |
Since the MSCA-PF is highly competitive, we offer the candidates aspiring for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship at CEITEC Masaryk University intensive support with the grant proposal preparation, such as:
- MSCA-PF Training Day for the applicants
- MSCA-PF Workshop – two-day practical workshop for serious candidates who already started preparing the application with CEITEC Masaryk University
- Individual consultations with dedicated project manager during the whole process
- A review of the application from Czech National Contact Person for MSCA-PF projects
To be included in our MSCA-PF mailing list and to be the first to receive up-to-date information and seminar registration links, contact veronika.sterbova@ceitec.muni.cz. Only candidates who are accepted by one of our supervisors and intend to submit their grant application with CEITEC at Masaryk University will be added to the mailing list and invited to take part in our internal trainings and consultations.
Meet our supervisors and find out who they are looking for in their team!
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| Prof. Robert Vácha, Ph.D. Research Group Leader Senior |
Gabriel Demo, Ph.D. Research Group Leader Junior |
| Research topic Biological membranes, proteins, and their interactions |
Research topic Regulation of Translation |
| Contact robert.vacha@ceitec.muni.cz |
Contact gabriel.demo@ceitec.muni.cz |
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| Prof. Marek Mráz, Ph.D. Research Group Leader Senior |
Petr Těšina, Ph.D. Research Group Leader Junior |
| Research topic Microenvironment of Immune Cells |
Research topic Translation Control |
| Contact marek.mraz@ceitec.muni.cz |
Contact petr.tesina@ceitec.muni.cz |