Apply for a Marie Skłodowska - Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship choosing the Nencki Institute as your Host Institution.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships are funded by the European Commission. You can find all the relevant information at the following link of the Participant Portal of the European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2226-msca-if-2016.html

The Nencki Institute welcomes researchers from all over the world and offers them a unique opportunity to work with highly qualified research groups across a broad inter-disciplinary network of scientific areas.

Marie Skłodowska - Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship support individual researchers at postdoctoral level to work on a research project of their own design in collaboration with the host institution. Expected impact of Individual Fellowships from the European Commission is to add value to the development of the best and most promising researchers and enhance their career’s perspectives.

If you are an experienced researcher from anywhere in the world and you are in possession of a doctoral degree or you have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience measured from the date when you obtained the degree which would have formally allowed you  to embark on a doctorate, and at the time of the deadline for submission, you have not resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc…) in Poland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date of the deadline for submission, you can apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Nencki Institute.

Grant amount

The grant amount will be provided in Unit Cost: Researcher Unit Cost and Institutional Unit Cost.

Researcher Unit Cost – paid directly to the Researcher (gross amount):

• 4650 Euro Living Allowance multiplied for the country correction coefficient (Poland 76.4%)
• 600 Euro Mobility Allowance
• 500 Euro Family Allowance

Institutional Unit Cost paid to the Host Institution (gross amount):

• 800 Euro Research, training and networking costs
• 650 Euro Management and indirect costs

Current call deadlines

Opening date: 12 April 2016

Deadline: 14 September 2016

Please write and send your CV and an abstract of your project by July 15, 2016 to m.rucinska@nencki.gov.pl

The mission of the Office of International Cooperation and Project Management at the Nencki Institute is to support researchers who wish to participate in EU-funded research projects or in projects funded by other international organizations.

Contact person: Marta Rucinska

Phone: +48 22 5892330

Mail: m.rucinska@nencki.gov.pl

Top reasons to choose the Nencki Institute:

• First ranked for the quality of research in several scientific areas among research institutions in Poland 
• Among the best research facilities in Europe
• World class research groups
• Partnership with 128 scientific institutions around the world
• Highly skilled staff ready to offer all the support you need (including all practicalities to move to Europe, i.e visa, mobility issues, health insurance...)
• Best employment conditions: it is the first subscribers of the Statement of Commitment for the implementation of the ‘European Charter of Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (C&C)’ and was rewarded with the ‘HR Excellence in Research’ logo by the European Commission in 2011
• salary MSCA rates guarantee high quality of life in Poland.

Learn more about our PhD studies

Please write and send your CV and an abstract of your project within by July 15, 2016 to m.rucinska@nencki.gov.pl

Office of International Cooperation and Project Management

3 Pasteur St. 02-093 Warsaw, Poland

Tel. +48 22 589 23 30

e-mail: m.rucinska@nencki.gov.pl

Public opening hours: Mon-Fri  8 am – 3 pm