This is an Expression of Interest for UM Academics to host postdoctoral researchers.
The University of Malta aims to act as host institution for postdoctoral fellows in the framework of the programme for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF-01-01). This opportunity includes two options for Postdoctoral Fellowships, European Fellowships and Global Fellowships. Successful applications will provide for a fully funded position across two (2) years for European Fellowships, and up to three (3) years for Global Fellowships, and the researcher in this position will benefit from a salary, support for mobility, and costs for research and overheads for the host institution. In part with this opportunity, researchers can also take part in non-academic placements for about 6 months.
If you're open to hosting and making an offer for prospective candidates, please fill in this form and submit before 16 February 2025.
For UM Supervisors: If you have already have identified and matched with a candidate, please get in touch with RSSD and we can assist with your application process.
For Prospective Candidates: If you want to apply, send a Cover Letter and CV to your supervisor, keep our office in copy via email, and use the subject line 'MSCA-PF-2025 candidate name'.
Please use this short list as a guideline, and always check the MSCA work programme for all the necessary details about eligibility.
Once you have matched with a prospective candidate, you can start working on your application together. Typically, the call is open for submissions in April and closes in September, and here below you can find a few resources to prepare your first draft and lead this application as Principle Investigator.
Once your first draft of the application is ready, you'll need more specific support to review, develop, and process it on behalf of UM. To do so, please get in touch with us on funding.rssd@um.edu.mt. Here we can put you forward to a Research Support Services Manager who is dedicated to your area of research, and finalise your draft of this application for the MSCA PF in 2025.
If you are open to hosting prospective candidates, please fill in and submit an expression of interest by 16 February 2025.
The purpose of a hosting offer is to work as an open invitation to the public and help academics at UM find prospective candidates. Once you fill in this Expression of Interest, we can take this information, and publish it on our networks, including the UM website, Euraxess, and Xjenza Malta.
What's in it for Supervisors?
Having submitted an Expression of Interest, hosting offers by supervisors will be listed here below. Please feel free to share a link to this page on your professional networks, such as Linked In, Academia.Edu, and Google Scholar.