The EU contribution is limited to €3.500.000 per beneficiary for this call. If an applicant submits two or more successful applications totalling more than €3.500.000 within this call, the applicant will be required to decide which of these proposals to implement.
Opened
Programme Category
EU Competitive Programmes
Programme Name
Horizon Europe (2021-2027)
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-02
Call
MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2025
Summary
The objective of this new scheme is to tackle brain drain and precarity of researchers’ careers to make Europe more attractive to the most promising young talents. Applicants submit proposals for talent recruitment programmes that will provide researchers holding a doctoral degree with excellent research and academic opportunities, potentially coupled with management activities, to lead them to concrete and attractive career prospects. Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines.
Detailed Call Description
The career development should incorporate transversal skills but also job-specific skills and, where relevant, language courses to ensure that the training is in line with the career opportunities offered following the fellowship. These opportunities must include concrete and attractive long-term career prospects, such as pathways towards open-ended contracts, which can be subject to assessment and evaluation. There must be a fair, equal, inclusive, transparent, structured career accession and progression system providing access to these opportunities in line with the Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe, the European Charter for Researchers in its annex and the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
A Career Development Plan must be maintained throughout the period of the Choose Europe for Science programme. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher’s career development needs, including training on languages, transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events. The Plan should outline the projected career progression paths in the host institution.
Expected Outcome:
For supported researchers:
- Concrete career prospects and increased career stability
- Access to diverse career pathways in and outside academia
- Deeper and more diverse set of research-related, academic and transferable skills and competences, leading to greater autonomy
For participating organisations:
- Better alignment of research and Human Resources practices, including recruitment, career accession and progression systems, at participating organisation(s) with the European Charter for Researchers and the Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe and the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment;
- Increased global attractiveness, visibility and reputation of the participating organisation(s);
- Stronger R&I and teaching capacity and output;
- Increased contribution to the local, regional and/or national socio-economic ecosystems;
- Stronger synergies across institutional research, management and teaching structures.
Call Total Budget
€22.500.000
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The admissibility and eligibility conditions are described in Annex A, Annex B and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
See exceptions and specific conditions at the end of the MSCA 2023-2025 Work Programme (page 148).
Call Opening Date
01/10/2025
Call Closing Date
03/12/2025
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Person:
Dr. Angelos Dantos
Scientific Officer
Email: antantos@research.org.cy
EU Contact Point
MSCA Contact Information: