• • Full name: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • Description: Fellowships will be provided to excellent researchers holding a PhD, undertaking international mobility either to or between EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries, as well as to non-associated Third Countries. Applications will be made jointly by the researcher and a beneficiary in the academic or non-academic sector.
  • Call for applications: Open date: 08/05/2025 to 10/09/2025
  • Duration: from 1 to 2 years
  • Grant: to be defined
  • Funding body: European Commission
  • Website: MSCA calls

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario (FPU)
  • Description: These are grants aimed at research training in doctoral programs to obtain the title of Doctor and the acquisition of university teaching skills, in any area of scientific knowledge, which facilitate the future incorporation of these people into the Spanish higher education system, and of scientific research.
  • Call for applications: Open date: expected from December to January
  • Duration: 4 years
  • Salary: from € 17,737 to € 23,756.04 gross per annum
  • Complementary grant: € 7.400will be granted, to cover expenses directly related to the execution of their research activities.
  • Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation)
  • Website: Buscador de Convocatorias | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (aei.gob.es) 

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Consolidación Investigadora
  • Description: Talent are aimed at training new generations of professionals to enable them to acquire the necessary skills for research and innovation in academic and business environments. In order to comply with the aforementioned objective, investment in human resources is considered a priority, both in the predoctoral and postdoctoral fields, professional progress through the stable incorporation of research, technologist and technical personnel to the university, scientific and business field, and the mobility of research staff in the public and private sectors.
  • Call for applications: Open date: expected July 2025
  • Duration: Permanent position
  • Salary: Salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the institutional salary scales.
  • Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation)
  • Website: Buscador de Convocatorias | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (aei.gob.es)

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Grants for the incorporation of postdoctoral research personnel into the Catalan science and technology system within the Beatriu de Pinós programme.
  • Description: Individual grants for the hiring and incorporation of doctoral research staff into the Catalan science and technology system. Researchers can freely choose their research project in any subject area.
  • Call for applications: Open date: expected from January to March 2026.
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Salary: Starting at 34,416 € gross per annum
  • Complementary grant: Supplementary amount of 12,000 € for actions to be implemented by the applicant during the contract.
  • Funding body: Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR)
  • Website: Beatriu de Pinós. Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (gencat.cat)

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.

• • Full name: Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowships
  • Description: ”la Caixa” Foundation grants 40 postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships for excellent researchers, of any nationality, who wish to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The goal of this programme is to foster high-quality, innovative research in Spain and Portugal and to support the best scientific talent by providing them with an attractive, competitive environment in which to conduct excellent research. The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is aimed at hiring excellent researchers, of any nationality, who wish to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The objectives of this programme are to foster high-quality, innovative research in Spain and Portugal and to support the best scientific talent by providing them with an attractive, competitive environment in which to conduct excellent research. The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is divided into two different frames:

• • • Postdoctorate Junior Leader – Incoming: 20 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of all nationalities. They will be offered a three-year employment contract to conduct a research project at Spanish centres. Candidates must have resided in Spain less than 12 months in the last three years.
    • Postdoctorate Junior Leader – Retaining: 20 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of all nationalities to carry out research at any university or research centre in Spain. Candidates must have resided in Spain more than 12 months in the last three years.

• • Call for applications: It is foreseen to close in October 2025.
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Salary: € 47.000 gross per annum
  • Complementary grant: € 38.500 per annum will be granted for expenses directly related to the development of the project such as consumables, equipment, personnel costs, registration to conferences, courses or research stays, intellectual property costs, etc., as well as € 5.400 for Mobility assistance for fellows who need to relocate to join the host institution at the beginning of the fellowship (needing to move to a city at a greater distance than 50km). Gross annual family allowance of € 1,200 for each of the researcher’s dependent children.
  • Funding body: “la Caixa” Foundation
  • Website:
    • La Caixa Foundation | Junior leader call – Incoming
    • La Caixa Foundation | Junior leader call – Retaining

* The data is indicative and may be subject to changes in future calls.