MSCA Master Class

The HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF will open on 8/05/2025.

The closing date remains unchanged. To compensate for this inconvenience and to give applicants sufficient time to prepare their project proposals, the European Commission has undertaken to put the official documents relating to this call on line before it opens.

The next Master Class will take place on 27 and 28 May 2025.

It is primarily intended for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) applicants with UCLouvain as host institution.

This training:

• helps applicants to make their MSCA-PF proposal more competitive;
• offers the opportunity to get to know UCLouvain while receiving in-depth advice on how to write their proposal.

Building on almost 600 years’ experience, the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) is a multicampus university in Belgium (Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels Woluwe, Saint Louis Brussels, Brussels Saint-Gilles, Mons, Tournai, and Charleroi) at the forefront of innovation and excellence in education and research. UCLouvain is responsible for the education of nearly one out of two French-speaking university students in Belgium and proposes courses in a vast range of disciplines.

UCLouvain is the top-ranked Belgian francophone university and is the leading Belgian university in the Times Higher Education ranking of the most international universities. It actively participates in the European Union's research and innovation programmes. It is involved in 174 Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development projects, 167 Horizon 2020 projects and 40 Horizon Europe Projects. Among Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects, UCLouvain hosts 70 MSCAs and 40 ERCs.

Registration

• Applicants should first check their eligibility for an MSCA-PF with Sara Wilmet (ADRE/RINT, +32 10 47 38 36).
• Applicants must send their CV and UCLouvain supervisor name to the UCLouvain Research Administration (Sara Wilmet) by April 2025.
• The Research Administration verifies the applicant's eligibility and confirms the registration by email, attaching proposal preparation documents.

Once certain of their elibigility, applicants can contact relevant research institutes, supervisors and/or contacts. 

Please note that:

• supervisors may also participate in the Master Class by sending an email that includes their supervisee's name;
• current UCLouvain researchers applying to a host institution abroad may also register to participate in the Master Class by emailing their CV, their current supervisor's name, and the future host institution's name.

Contact person for questions regarding the MSCA Master Class

Sara Wilmet
Research Administration
Sara.wilmet@uclouvain.be
+32 10 47 38 36