Dear Researchers,

The Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship and Doctoral Networks (Previously ITN) calls are now open.

The Postdoctoral Fellow call will close on 12^th of October

The Doctoral Networks call will close on 16^th of November.

MSCA Postdoctoral call (Individual fellowship) in a nutshell:

- Training program for individual postdoctoral fellows, 2 years

- Bottom-up so researcher can apply in any discipline and with any topic.

- Incoming researcher: Any nationality can apply to come to the University of Oulun yliopisto

- Outgoing researcher: A researcher working at the University of Oulu can apply to go to anywhere in the world.

- Restrictions: No more than 8 years from PhD (some exceptions exist, such as maternity leave etc).

- Mobility rule applies: The researcher coming or going must move to another laboratory in another country. More precisely: The applying researcher cannot have resided in the organization to which they are applying to go for more than 12 months within the last 3 years. Meaning that if a foreign researcher is currently in Oulu but has resided here for less than 12 months at the time of the deadline – that researcher is eligible to apply.

MSCA Doctoral networks call (used to be ITN) in a nutshell

- A consortium with minimum of 3 organizations from a minimum of 3 different EU-countries (or associated countries) can apply

- The training program is for PhD students, 3 years

- The training program is fully bottom-up meaning that the consortium can suggest a training program in any discipline and with any topic

- Mobility rule applies meaning that a research group from the University of Oulu cannot recruit researchers residing in Finland.

- Recruited researchers can come from anywhere in the world.

For more information please read the call texts in the Funding and tenders portal:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/home

If you have questions/plan to apply, please contact me and Janika Luukinen.

The university has a support program for researchers applying for the MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship and planning to come to Oulu.

With best regards,

Emma

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Emma Pirilä, PhD

Research Funding Specialist

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

Biocenter Oulu

Aapistie 5A, 2nd floor

FIN- 90230 University of Oulu

Finland

Phone: +358503426428

e-mail: emma.pirila@oulu.fi

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