Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The MSCA support excellent research and help researchers develop their careers at every stage. They offer opportunities to gain international experience, work across sectors, and collaborate with different disciplines.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are the European Union’s reference programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training. The programme promotes the mobility of researchers between countries, sectors and disciplines to acquire new knowledge, skills and competences.
The main actions are: Doctoral Networks (DN), Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF), Staff Exchanges (SE), Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND).

Key Information

Swiss eligibility:

Switzerland is an Associated Country to Horizon Europe and Swiss entities can participate as beneficiaries in MSCA calls.

For further information, please check here.

Type of actions:

Bottom-up projects

MSCA Calls for proposal

Calendar for 2025 calls
- COFUND  (opening 23 January 2025, deadline 24 June 2025)
- Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF)  (opening 8 May 2025, deadline 10 September 2025)
- Doctoral Networks (DN) (opening 28 May 2025, deadline 25 November 2025)
- Staff Exchanges (SE) (opening 27 March 2025, 8 October 2025)
- MSCA & Citizens (opening 17 June 2025, 22 October 2025)
- MSCA Choose Europe for Science  (opening 1 October 2025, deadline 3 December 2025)

MSCA Success Stories

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Contacts

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Isabelle Spühler

Isabelle Spühler

National Contact Point for
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

+41 31 380 60 21
isabelle.spuehler@euresearch.ch
Euresearch Network Office
Belpstrasse 11
3007 Bern

Manuel Bianco

Manuel Bianco

National Contact Point for
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Mobility (Cluster 5) and Energy, incl. Euratom (Cluster 5), Missions

+41 31 380 60 13
manuel.bianco@euresearch.ch
LinkedIn
Euresearch Network Office
Belpstrasse 11
3007 Bern

Marco Cavallaro

Marco Cavallaro

National Contact Point for
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

+41 31 380 60 09
marco.cavallaro@euresearch.ch
LinkedIn
Euresearch Network Office
Belpstrasse 11
3007 Bern

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