Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
Scheme opens: 9 April 2026
Notify Faculty of intention to apply by: 1 June 2026
Deadline for submission for internal selection: 8 June 2026
Funder deadline: 17:00 CEST, 09 September 2026
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships are part of the Horizon Europe program.
Proposals are joint submissions between the Fellow and their host Department/supervisor. A key objective of the fellowships is career development and skills acquisition so planned training must be addressed in the application alongside research objectives.
Research fields are chosen freely by the applicants and all research disciplines offered at Oxford are eligible for funding.
The grant provides an allowance to cover your living, travel and family costs. Research costs and overheads of the host organisation are also supported.
Oxford supports applications for European Fellowships (EFs); we are unable to, however, support applications for Global Fellowships (GFs).
Eligibility: Open to those who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis coming to Europe. Fellowships must be for a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 months.
At call deadline, supported researchers must have a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree. Note: This only counts active research time, and years of experience outside research and career breaks will not count towards this eight years of experience. Further specifications are found on the funders website.
Mentor for the Fellowship
Applicants who wish to apply for this funding through the Oxford Law Faculty must secure the support of a senior member of the Faculty as a mentor/supervisor. While the fellowship funding will allow for independent research, both the funder and the Faculty require the Fellow to have a mentor to discuss project progress and wider academic life in general on a regular basis.
If you are interested in applying, please contact a faculty member who you wish to be your mentor before you submit your expression of interest to our Research Support team.
How to apply
More information on how to apply can be found on Oxford Research Support's page on European Commission research funding.
Please contact the Research Support team or your Centre Administrator in the first instance if you would like to apply.
A note that a round of internal selection is expected, and this has been provisionally scheduled for mid-June. We will request submission of draft application materials to research@law.ox.ac.uk by 17:00, 8th June 2026. We will confirm the materials to be requested after the scheme opens on 9th April.
DEADLINES
Scheme opens: 9 April 2026
Notify Faculty of intention to apply by: 1 June 2026
Deadline for submission for internal selection: 8 June 2026
Research Services deadline: 25 August 2026
Funder deadline: 17:00 CEST, 09 September 2026