Eligibility Criteria
Applicant Requirements for Level 1
Junior Fellowship applicants
Exception the above rule in line with the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (PF) call:
- Maternity leave (18 months, 548 days per child born after PhD award date, or the exact maternity leave duration, whichever is longest)
- Paternity leave (exact duration per child born after the PhD award date)
- Research in a non-associated TC (only for nationals or long-term residents of MS or AC, wishing to reintegrate in Europe)
- Time spent not working in research
- Long-term sick leave (periods > 30 days)
They must be in possession of a doctoral degree.
Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis and fulfilled the formal requirements for the doctorate but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will be considered as PRs and will be eligible to apply.
Those candidates require that the doctoral award has formally been awarded prior to start of their fellowship
Applicants can be of any nationality and must either have working proficiency of the English language or must be fluent in English
Individual-driven mobility Requirement:
Candidates shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Ireland for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to the call deadline
The following periods are not taken into account:
a) compulsory national service
b) time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention
c) short stays (such as holidays), i.e., the researcher did not reside or did not have their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country during that period
Applicant Requirements for Level 2
Experienced Fellowship applicants
Applicants can be of any nationality and must either have working proficiency of the English language or must be fluent in English
Individual-driven mobility Requirement:
Candidates shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Ireland for more than 12 months in the three years immediately prior to the call deadline
The following periods are not taken into account:
a) compulsory national service
b) time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention
c) short stays (such as holidays), i.e., the researcher did not reside or did not have their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country during that period