The European Commission will provide a €10 million top-up for the MSCA4Ukraine initiative, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) under Horizon Europe. This extra budget was announced last week as part of the programme’s call planning for 2025.
Since its creation, the MSCA4Ukraine scheme has supported 173 displaced researchers from Ukraine with a budget of €35 million.
The extra budget will allow an organisation or a consortium to select doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers from Ukraine, who will be able to continue their work safely in academia, businesses, research centres and public institutions based in the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe.
Selected fellows will continue their research under favourable working conditions. The scheme includes specific support for organisations, allowing them to host researchers for a period between 8 months and 2 years and offer them
- training
- skills and career development opportunities
- excellent employment conditions
- proper supervision
The scheme will provide family allowances to help selected researchers with family responsibilities, and a special needs allowance to support the participation of persons with disabilities.
Call for organisations now open
A call to select a new organisation or consortium that will manage the next phase of the MSCA4Ukraine fellowship scheme is now open until 16 September 2025.
The winner will then organise a call for proposals that will offer fellowships to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from Ukraine.
Call for researchers expected in 2026
The opening of the call to Ukrainian researchers is expected for the first half of 2026.
Interested researchers will be asked to prepare an application with a host organisation of their choice based in the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, including Ukraine.
The host organisations will then apply to the call for proposals. Applicants can include universities, research centres, public bodies, companies or other institutions.
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