MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.
Postdoc.Mobility fellowships support postdocs who wish to conduct a research stay abroad.
The fellowships are aimed at researchers with a doctorate and at researchers who will complete their doctorate within nine months after the submission deadline. Researchers with a medical degree that includes a doctorate are also eligible to apply. The fellowships are generally awarded for 24 months, but never for less than 12 months.
Recipients of a Postdoc.Mobility fellowship may apply for a return grant of 3 to 12 months.
The artistic research projects concerned in the framework of this residency must be developed according to the orientations of the transversal program "Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge" and in connection with one of the topics proposed by the program "Necessary Utopias".
As an institute of Aix-Marseille University, the Institute of Cancer and Immunology (ICI) brings together research teams, hospitals and industrialists in Marseille working in the field of cancer and immunology research. The treatment of cancers by stimulating the patient's immune defenses is currently in full development and was even the subject of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2018.
The Mucem/IMERA residency is open to artists, researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and professionals in museology and heritage.
Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques/Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) is part of Aix-Marseille University. It has been recently labeled University Research School for a project of excellence in which AMSE brings together research, teaching and valorization. The research program focuses on economic responses in a changing world.
The IRD (French National Institute of Research for Developpement) is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to working closely with partner countries on global development issues. It uses an original approach on development research and pluridisciplinary expertise throughout its international network.
The EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) is a prestigious French institution devoted to research and teaching in social sciences. The EHESS research and teaching activities also involve members of French and foreign partners. These activities are carried out at the Paris headquarters and at the regional centers of the institution (Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse) as well.
Applications are open to scientists of all disciplines and to artists, junior or senior, who propose a research project related to one of the axes of the Interdisciplinary Explorations program.