European fellowships (ERC, MSCA)
Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme offers several fellowship opportunities. The MSCA European Fellowship provides two years’ salary for a postdoctoral researcher from anywhere outside the Netherlands (or a fellow already in NL <12 months in the 3 years prior to the September deadline). The MSCA Global Fellowship offers Amsterdam UMC postdocs a 12 to 24-month stay to a third country (USA, Canada, Australia, etc.) and a mandatory 12-month return at Amsterdam UMC.
The 2024 MSCA-PF call is already open and has a tentative deadline of 11 September 2024.
Within Amsterdam UMC Research Grant Support (RGS), it is our experience that involvement of the hosting PI is an important contributing factor for a successful MSCA-PF proposal. Therefore, we encourage Amsterdam UMC PIs to be well informed of this program and to contribute actively to proposal development by frequent meetings with the applicant and providing active input. In this regard, comprehensive RGS grant support is only given to MSCA-PF applicants that have attended the RGS Masterclass (scheduled in July), have registered for support on time (deadline 1 July 2024) and arranged a brainstorm/intake meeting together with the hosting PI and RGS grant advisors.
Amsterdam UMC PIs interested in hosting an MSCA-PF fellow, can reach out to collaborators for potential candidates or express their interest for hosting and co-writing the MSCA-PF proposal through the searchable EURAXESS job database or the MSCA Match making website under the option ‘Participation type: Fellows’.
ERC Starting and Consolidator Grant
Profile: for excellent, prestigious researchers with groundbreaking frontier research ideas starting or consolidating their own independent research team. Applications to the European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grant can be made in any field of research.
Target group: candidates with 2-7 years of experience since the completion of their PhD for the ERC Starting Grant and 7-12 years of experience since the completion of their PhD for the ERC Consolidator Grant. Justified extensions - like maternity leave (18 months per child), paternity leave and clinical training (after the PhD award and up to 4 years maximum) - of this period may be accepted.
Amount
ERC Starting Grant: € 1.5M for 5 years
ERC Consolidator Grant: € 2M for 5 years
For ERC Starting Grant laureates, an additional incentive arrangement is available.
RGS offers extensive support to both Amsterdam UMC and external researchers who intend to apply with Amsterdam UMC as Host Institute.
Internal applicants: for registration to the internal support, please do so via this link. For more information and questions regarding internal support, please contact us at rgs@amsterdamumc.nl.
External applicants: for information and registration to the internal support please contact RGS.
ERC Advanced Grant
Profile: for exceptional established research leaders in any field of science, engineering and scholarship to pursue frontier research of their choice. Applications to the European Research Council (ERC) advanced Grant can be made in any field of research.
Target group: excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognized track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.
Amount
ERC Advanced Grant: € 2.5M for 5 years.
Additional funding up to € 1M possible to cover eligible ‘start-up’ costs for researchers moving and/or the purchase of major equipment and/or access to large facilities.
RGS offers extensive support to both Amsterdam UMC and external researchers who intend to apply with Amsterdam UMC as Host Institute.
For more information and questions regarding our support, please contact Research Grant Support.