UiO is holding a Master Class for prospective candidates applying for Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships with the University of Oslo as Host Institution. The call has a deadline on 10th September 2025. The aim of the Master Class is to attract and train excellent and highly motivated researchers to successfully apply for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships with UiO.
The Master Class will be held as a webinar on Zoom and is jointly organised by faculty research administration and UiO central EU-office, and Julie Sauer from Oxygeneum.
Register
The Master Class is for invited candidates only. Participants are expected to submit an application with UiO as host.
In order to attend, you will need to:
- Fulfill the MSCA eligibility criteria (europa.eu)
- Have one of our supervisors willing to support your proposal, and willing to host you in their research group
- Complete the mandatory registration and upload any attachments if requested, e.g. CV
Registered participants will receive an invitation with a link for the Master Class webinar.
Register here before May 12th, at 12:00
Master Class Program
Day I: 19.05.2025
09.00 AM - 01.00 PM
- Welcome & Icebreaker
- Think before you write: What are the funding body’s expectations?
- Evaluation Criterion ‘Excellence’: The research part, including objectives and methodology
- Break 10 minutes
- MSCA fellow describes experiences from the application process
- Evaluation Criterion ‘Excellence’: The training part, including career development, supervision and researcher’s professional experience, competences and skills
- Interactive exercise
- Q&A
Day II: 20.05.2025
09.00 AM - 01.00 PM
- Evaluation Criterion ‘Impact’: Career perspectives
- Evaluation Criterion ‘Impact’: Dissemination, exploitation, communication
- Break 10 minutes
- Evaluation Criterion ‘Impact’: Scientific, societal, economic impact
- Interactive exercise
- Evaluation Criterion ‘Implementation’: Work plan, risks assessment, hosting arrangements
- Break 10 minutes
- MSCA PF evaluator describes experiences from the evaluation process
- CV and cross-cutting issues
- Q&A
Contact
Faculty of Humanities?: Research advisers at the departments, or faculty: julianne.rustad@iakh.uio.no
Faculty of Law?: jenny.graver@jus.uio.no
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences?: msca-team@mn.uio.no
?Faculty of Medicine?: External Funding Office? med-funding@medisin.uio.no?
Faculty of Dentistry?: natalia.andronova@odont.uio.no
Faculty of Social Sciences?:m.g.evensen@sv.uio.no
Faculty of Theology?: i.m.gjorva@teologi.uio.no
Faculty of Educational Sciences?: e.k.haavardsholm@uv.uio.no
Museum of Cultural History?: forskningsradgiver@khm.uio.no ?
Natural History Museum?: m.c.o.rydmark@nhm.uio.no
Centre for Development and the Environment: vita.kvedaraite@sum.uio.no
Centre for Gender Research: andrew.feltham@stk.uio.no
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?Further information
Additional information is available on the EU Commission's MSCA PF program website
Q&A about MSCA PF at the national contacts points' web base Net4Mobility