
MSCA MaRaThoN 2025
MSCA Marathon @Unipd – Padua, May 21-22-23 , 2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MAster your Research and Training Needs programme
After eight successful editions, the University of Padua is pleased to announce the ninth edition of the MSCA MaRaThoN, scheduled from 21 to 23 May 2025.
MSCA MaRaThoN is a training course targeting top candidates who wish to apply for the upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA –PF) call indicating the University of Padua as their Host Institution.
The training offers researchers the opportunity to gain more information about the MSCA - Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call. Participants will meet experts and experienced MSC evaluators providing specific advice and useful tips on how to best draft their project proposals. Furthermore, candidates will have the possibility to meet their potential supervisors at the University of Padua, to get to know our current MSCA fellows and to visit our laboratories and facilities.
Applications open on February 17, 2025
Application deadline is March 24, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. Italian time zone.
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What we look for
We are looking for experienced researchers (the MSCA definition applies: at the date of the call deadline, in possession of a doctoral degree), with an excellent CV and research track record (e.g., one publication without their PhD supervisor, a publication as first author, a monograph). Applicants are expected to be open minded and willing to collaborate with our research groups.
What we offer
The training course is open to 40 potential MSCA candidates. Selected participants will have their travel and accommodation costs covered by the University of Padua: we will book and pay directly for such expenses, reimbursements to applicants are not foreseen.
Who can apply
When applying for the course, please check and choose your type of fellowship and make sure you comply with the MSCA Mobility Rule.
You can apply to the MSCA Marathon 2025 if, at the date of the relevant deadline for the submission of PF proposals (10 September 2025):
- you possess a PhD;
- you have up to max. 8 years of research experience measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree (exceptions according to MSCA-PF rules)
- you comply with the mobility rule of the MSCA;
- you choose the University of Padua as your Host Institution.
How to apply
Check the application folder below and contact a potential supervisor at the University of Padua following the instructions below.
Please note that the evaluation of candidates is mainly based on their research profile, their short proposal and completeness of their application. Make sure you contact your supervisor at the University of Padua: you need to have their Department letter of acceptance signed by the Head of Department and included in your folder.
Application deadline is 24 March 2025 at 1:00 p.m. (Italian time zone).
Application folder
Selection of applicants to the Marathon is mainly based on the evaluation of their research profile, their short proposal and completeness of their application.
Please download the documents below (all forms are compulsory, incomplete applications will not be accepted), fill in the Google Form and upload all forms:
MSCA potential supervisors at the University of Padua
Several researchers at our University are willing to act as supervisors in MSCA-PF applications. Applicants can freely choose and contact their preferred Supervisor. If you do not already have contacts at Unipd, you can find a regularly updated list of available supervisors below.
See the full list of Unipd departments as a further reference.
Professors at Unipd wishing to act as supervisors are invited to fill in and submit the Supervisor Form.
Consult here the list of MSCA potential supervisors at Unipd
Download the document to apply filters in the excel table.
Latest update: March 14, 2025
When you are not funded but receive the Seal of Excellence - MSCA
In case you choose the University of Padua as your Host Institution within the MSCA-PF Call and your project is not selected for funding, but you receive the “Seal of Excellence – MSC Actions”, the University offers you the opportunity for an alternative funding under the MSCA Seal of Excellence@University of Padua programme.
Once the Seal of Excellence is issued, you may apply for a grant covering an employment contract for the duration of the project and a budget for research, networking and training activities.
With 137 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships and 60 ERC grantees awarded since 2014, the University of Padua strongly supports excellent science and encourages candidates who are willing to perform the highest quality research.
Get to know the University large community of MSCA fellows, MSCA Supervisors and ERC grantees!
Interested in a MSCA – PF opportunity or in an ERC application?
The International Research Office supports MSC Fellow candidates and their Supervisors, as well as ERC grantees, both in the application process and in managing the grant.
MSCA MaRaThoN
International Research Office | Individual grants
Via Martiri della Libertà, 8
35137 Padova, Italy
For any further information please contact us: mariecurie.marathon@unipd.it