Insights and statistics from the MSCA4Ukraine fellowship programme

By the MSCA4Ukraine first call’s cut-off date of  November 11, 2022, a total of 403 applications were received on behalf of 402 candidates, of which there were approximately 71% female researchers and 29% male researchers. Approximately 4,4% of applications were deemed ineligible. In addition, 198 applications were submitted after November 11. In line with the scheme’s Terms of Reference, since all funding was committed on the basis of applications received before November 11, applications received after this date were not evaluated.

In terms of career levels of the candidates, 8% of the eligible applications were submitted on behalf of doctoral candidates, and 92%  for PhD-degree holders. Applications were submitted by host institutions from 28 countries (Fig. 1), with the highest number from Germany, Czechia, Spain, France and Italy.

The evaluation and selection process was carried out as outlined in the first call’s MSCA4Ukraine ToR for Applicants (2022) and was supported by a very high level of solidarity from the global academic community. In fact, over 450 external experts from over 45 countries were recruited for evaluation.

MSCA4Ukraine Results 2023

The MSCA4Ukraine consortium is pleased to announce the results of the scheme’s evaluation and selection process. Funded under the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the MSCA4Ukraine scheme will provide fellowship support to 124 researchers from Ukraine to continue their research in 21 host countries. Please find below the list of successful applications to MSCA4Ukraine as at 6 June 2023, in alphabetical order and by country. This list is subject to change as applicants accept or decline their fellowship awards. The final list will be available in due course and may include applicants currently on the ranked reserve list.

Host Country	Host Institution	Research Area	Level	Duration in months	Research Project Title
Austria	Universität für Bodenkultur Wien	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Municipal solid waste and landfill management, reconstruction and monitoring in the post-war Ukraine
Austria	Universität für Weiterbildung Krems	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Development of Phenomenological Models of Mechanical Properties for Advanced Multiphysics Material Simulation of Polycrystalline Magnets
Austria	Universität Salzburg	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of Nukkuaa4Ukraine: a CBTbased Online Sleep Treatment Program
Austria	Naturhistorisches Museum Wien	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	The Viennese Unpublished Caucasian Collection and New Approaches to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Ages of the Caucasus
Belgium	Ghent University	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	“(In)visible crime: Dealing with conflict-related sexual violence in international and national contexts. A case-study of Ukraine”
Belgium	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Fluorescent sorting of black plastics (FLUOSORT)
Belgium	University of Antwerp	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Plasma-assisted cracking of ammonia to hydrogen using gliding arc plasmas
Belgium	University of Antwerp	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Crowd shipping initiatives for sustainable development of urban logistics
Belgium	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	LIF	Doctoral	24	GynCoviRisk - Assessing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 for pregnancy and as possible cause of birth defects
Belgium	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	ECO	Postdoctoral	24	Can the rehabilitation after the war be an opportunity to put Sustainability more on the agenda in Ukraine?
Belgium	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Strengthening the Rule of Law in Ukraine through a Reform of the Judicial Process for Litigating Matters of Collective Interest: Enhancing Access to Justice for War Victims
Belgium	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Development of pre-vascularized human soft bone callus implant for accelerated vessel ingrowth in large implants
Cyprus	University of Cyprus	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Documentation & Accessibility of Rumeic Folk Songs
Czech Republic	Crop Research Institute	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Nanocomposite hydrogels for cryopreservation of plant genetic resources
Czech Republic	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague	ENV	Postdoctoral	21	Evaluation of “bioavailable” pool of Cd in soil by determination of Cd concentration and its stable isotope composition coupled with a single extraction procedure to decipher cadmium biogeochemical cycling in the soil-plant continuum
Czech Republic	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Phosphogypsum as a mineral resource for bioprocesses
Czech Republic	University of Chemistry and Technology Prague	CHE	Doctoral	24	To link or to make? N-Heterocycles in two dimensions
Czech Republic	Masaryk University	LIF	Postdoctoral	18	Adaptor protein Ruk/CIN85 as a potential molecular marker in human osteosarcoma
Czech Republic	University of Chemistry and Technology Prague	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Development of Anion-Exchange Membranes for Hydrogen Producing Alkaline Electrolysers
Czech Republic	Masaryk University	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Annual vegetation of European wetlands: diversity, habitats and alien plant invasions
Czech Republic	Biology Centre CAS	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Define Biology of Babesia – Hemoglobin as a Source of Nutrients for Intracellular Parasite Development and Disease Progression
Czech Republic	Technical University of Liberec	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Control Methods of Ferroelectric Self-Assembly
Czech Republic	Technical University of Liberec	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Microstructural evolution and atmospheric oxidation of nanocrystalline films, as a way to create functional structures.
Czech Republic	University of Pardubice	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	USING PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN FREIGHT DELIVERY
Czech Republic	Masaryk University	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Novel Cytokinin-Like Compounds: Signaling and Mechanism of Action in Arabidopsis and Brassicaceae Oilseeds
Czech Republic	University of West Bohemia	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Renewable energy sources and Digital Twin
Czech Republic	Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Unveiling multiscale spatial patterns of mistletoe distribution and their driving factors in tree canopies using remote sensing
Czech Republic	Czech Academy of Sciences	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Exceptionalism in Ukrainian philosophical and political thought in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Czech Republic	Czech Academy of Sciences	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Deciphering the interplay between the fusogens and the membrane curvature by means of molecular simulations
Czech Republic	Masaryk University	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Structural characterization of phage assembly and genome packaging in bacterial cells
Estonia	University of Tartu	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Between Resilience and Democracy: Wartime Political Transformations in Ukraine
Estonia	University of Tartu	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Design and development of 3D-printed medicines for bioactive materials of Ukrainian and Estonian medicinal plants origin
Estonia	University of Tartu	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Genetic, social and cultural diversity in Iron Age settlements of Ukrainian forest-steppe
Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology	LIF	Postdoctoral	12	The role of extracellular vesicles from follicular fluid on the function of cultured primary granulosa cells
Finland	Tampere University	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Plasmon-enhanced catalytic reactions for renewable fuels
Finland	University of Helsinki	SOC	Doctoral	24	The Implementation of the Rule of Law in the Nordic countries via Access to Justice
Finland	University of Helsinki	ECO	Postdoctoral	24	Achieving Sustainable Development Goals progress through an integrated cross-sectoral analysis of banking and agri-food on sustainability reporting transparency
Finland	University of Tampere	SOC	Doctoral	24	Gender identity formation of Ukrainians through video game mechanics
France	Sorbonne Universite	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Molecular Tweezers for Multifunctional Communicating Systems
France	CNRS Centre de Neurochimie	LIF	Postdoctoral	18	Role of the Phospholipid Scramblase-1 in synaptic vesicle endocytosis: identification of new regulators.
France	Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier	CHE	Doctoral	8	Switchable materials based on spin-crossover complexes
France	Universite d'Angers	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Thermosensitive and photosensitive poloxazolines based polymers as switches and fluorescent labels for biomedical applications
France	Le Mans Universite	CHE	Doctoral	8	Gelatin-alginate hydrogels for hard-to-heal wounds
France	Universite de Strasbourg	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	The Role of Local Authorities in the Implementation of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
France	Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier	CHE	Doctoral	24	Synthesis and photophysical studies of Ruthenium complexes with nitrosyl ligand and luminescent antennas for photoactivated chemotherapy
France	Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Sub-molecular in situ visualizations of the potential-dependent interfacial process: novel system for new insight on ion channels conformation
France	Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	MargO: Pedunculate Oak climate sensitivity in southern MARGinal populations over Europe
France	Universite d'Angers	ECO	Postdoctoral	24	The potential of collective intelligence for sustainable digital transformation in SMEs (CIDI STEP)
France	Universite d'Angers	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Conducting (chiral) ladders and nanotubules (CONTINUES)
France	Universite de Strasbourg	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Rational molecular design, synthesis, and bioconjugation of nextgeneration fluorescent molecular rotors as probes for RNA condensation
France	Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	WOLDS: The endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia from native and invasive populations of the pest Drosophila suzukii: population genomics and consequences for host fitness
Georgia	Ilia State University	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Identify effective pathways to reach children and adults with disabilities among refugees from Ukraine
Germany	Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum	ENV	Postdoctoral	24	Reconstruction of the Ukrainian seismic network
Germany	Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Coral-associated microbiota as indicator of shifts in cold-water coral fitness near Chilean salmon farms
Germany	Technische Universität Chemnitz	PHY	Postdoctoral	8	“Microellipsometric investigations of ordered lattices of plasmonic nanoparticles – influence of the ordering” Nanoparticles Plasmonics
Germany	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Mechanisms of luminescence enhancement in oxide nanoparticles and composites with heterovalent substitutions
Germany	Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim	SOC	Postdoctoral	18	Language Dynamics in times of the Russia-Ukraine War
Germany	Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Control of graphene surface plasmon-polaritons (SPP) propagation and modulation properties in hybrid graphene-dielectric metasurfaces using finite-element electromagnetic simulations
Germany	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Ukrainian literature in Germany: the image of Ukraine in Germanlanguage literary translations and in literary studies
Germany	Universität Paderborn	SOC	Postdoctoral	12	Women Philosophers and Scientists: Ecofeminism against Ecocide during and after the war
Germany	Universität Greifswald	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Global biodiversity patterns of corticulous myxomycetes (Myxogastrea)
Germany	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Application of quantum chemistry methods to predict supramolecular architecture of halogen and amino substituted aromatic compounds
Germany	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Targeting advanced aminothiol-based radioprotective agents derivatized by quinolines
Germany	Universität Konstanz	SOC	Postdoctoral	12	Use of factorial design to determine the significance of personal social status characteristics (according to the Adapted for Ukraine Warner’s Status Characteristics Index)
Germany	Universität Regensburg	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Legal Transplants in Stock Corporation Law of Eastern European states
Germany	Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in in Transformationsökonomien	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Sustainability reporting and access to capital (for post-war recovery) of agricultural enterprises in Ukraine
Germany	Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig	MAT	Postdoctoral	15	Qualitative Behavior of Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Removability Conditions
Germany	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Ionization Losses of Relativistic Particles in Crystals (ION-LOSS)
Germany	Brandenburgische Technische Universität	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Visual Encoding of Obscure Particles: Plasmonic Mapper-Magnifier for Express Identification of Micro- and Nano-bodies
Germany	Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen	MAT	Postdoctoral	24	A new approach to optimal numerical differentiation and its application for solving equations of mathematical physics
Germany	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Understanding the productivity of derivational morphology: internal vs external factors
Germany	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Between the languages: Linguistic basics, institutional forms and didactic concepts of teaching Ukrainian as a heritage language in Berlin and beyond
Germany	Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen	MAT	Postdoctoral	24	Modules over group rings of linear groups of finite rank and their applications in Modern Harmonic Analysis
Germany	Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung	LIF	Postdoctoral	18	Moving over the frontier: habitat and climate drivers of bat population abundances and bat assemblages across the East European Plain
Germany	Universität Bayreuth	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Hydrogen Influence on Fe-Ni-Al Alloys
Ireland	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Health Profiles, Health Care Needs and Coping Strategies of Ukrainian Female Refugees Settled in the Czech Republic and Ireland.
Ireland	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Establishing pathways to safe surgery: case of Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania (SURGpath)
Italy	Universita di Pisa	ENV	Postdoctoral	24	Evaluation of accumulation, contamination/migration of Tritium in concrete nuclear facility
Italy	Universita di Pisa	CHE	Doctoral	12	Synthesis of functionalizable heterocycles for the study of new peptidomimetic conjugates for biomedical applications
Italy	Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Evolution of radio emission from the remnant of supernova 1987A by magnetohydrodynamic modeling and comparison with the observations
Italy	Universita di Foggia	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Combined Behavioural and Molecular Landscape of Autism Spectrum Disorders and its Prognostic Implication in Mice
Italy	Universita degli Studi di Torino	PHY	Doctoral	24	Tools for understanding semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering measurements
Latvia	University of Latvia	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Innovative two-dimensional nanomaterials for photo-thermal therapy of melanoma
Latvia	Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	CineGame Ukraine: a Contemporary Ukrainian Research-based Digital Art Game for Developing Narrative Skills and Cinema Literacy
Lithuania	Vilnius University	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Electrochemical synthesis of multifunctional (magnetic and electrocatalytic) films of nanostructured rhenium superalloys deposits (“EMERALD”)
Lithuania	National Cancer Institute	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Bacterial Lectins and Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells as a Way to Improve Cancer Immunotherapy
Lithuania	Vilnius University	SOC	Postdoctoral	19	Digital forensic, open data source and artificial intelligence as tools of international security
Lithuania	Nature Research Centre Laboratory of Ecotoxicology	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Study of the protective potential of probiotics in combination with nanoparticles during long-term exposure to juvenile fish to assess possible risks
Luxembourg	Universite de Luxembourg	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Universal mental health training for frontline professionals: further development and adjustment for warrelated needs and future post-war recovery in Ukraine
Luxembourg	Universite de Luxembourg	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the EU Preventive Restructuring Directive 2019/1023: Success or Failure?
Netherlands	University of Groningen	SOC	Doctoral	11	Careers in times of war: Assessing the impact of war on career selfefficacy and adaptability of Ukrainian data scientists
Netherlands	Leiden University	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Development of research assessment practices that contribute to the development of Ukrainian science, economy and society
Netherlands	Vrije University Amsterdam	ECO	Postdoctoral	24	Creating favorable conditions for activation innovative entrepreneurship and startups in the post-war period in Ukraine based on European experience
Netherlands	University of Groningen	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Supramolecular polymerization motors: “viewed and felt” by atomic force microscopy
Netherlands	Delft University of Technology	ECO	Postdoctoral	24	Improving the resilience of Ukrainian agriculture for post-war soil restoration and carbon mitigation
Netherlands	Wageningen University	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Ukrainian wildfires of war: changes in fire regimes as a result of the direct and indirect effects of war
Netherlands	Wageningen University	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Solidarity as Responsible Business Conduct: beyond Corporate Respect for Human Rights
Norway	University of Oslo	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	UAGREEKS: Study of the transnational connections of southern Ukraine through the history of its Greek minority from the 18th to the 21st century
Norway	University of Bergen	SOC	Doctoral	24	Issues of domestic prosecution of war crimes in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war of 2022
Norway	University of Oslo	MAT	Postdoctoral	24	Robustness, Asymptotic Behavior and Stability of Models Based on Stochastic Differential Equations
Poland	University of Life Sciences in Lublin	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Electroconsolidation process and its effect on the structure and properties of the nanostructured materials sintered out of powders
Poland	Polish Academy of Sciences	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	THz-properties of nanoscale plasmonic crystal structures and currentdriven mechanisms of plasmon instability for generation of THz radiation
Poland	Gdansk University of Technology	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Systemic, risk-informed decision support system for the definition of boundary conditions for safe inland navigation based on a novel logico-linguistic model
Poland	Forest Research Institut	LIF	Postdoctoral	12	Extreme climate events signature in pedunculate oak wood at rear edges of its range
Poland	Polish Academy of Sciences	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Molecular epidemiological survey and genetic analysis of vectorborne pathogens of horses in Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia
Poland	Jagiellonian University	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Fenton-like heterogeneous ferrite catalysts with improved adsorption properties for wet oxidation of organic pollutants
Poland	Poznan University of Life Sciences	ENG	Postdoctoral	24	Biogas Solutions in overcoming the energy, climate and food crisis in EU and Ukraine
Poland	University of Rzeszow	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Genetic control of lignocellulosic sugar transport and metabolism during alcoholic fermentation of the thermotolerant yeast Ogataea polymorpha
Slovakia	Slovak Academy of Sciences	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Novel polymer matrixes and micro/nanocarriers for biosensing improvement
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Phase behaviour and effects of co-solutes on aggregation of proteins in aqueous solution
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Application of the van der Waals concept to microscopic understanding the thermodynamics of ionic systems
Spain	Fundacion Universitaria San Pablo CEU	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Bio-nanoparticles loaded with bacterial elicitors to improve plant adaptation to water limiting conditions (drought and salinity)
Spain	Universidad de Salamanca	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	TRANSPONTIC: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Northern Pontic Region: A multi-proxy approach to the socio-economic and symbolic practices of forager societies
Spain	Universidad de Burgos	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Green hydrogen in the conditions of war and increasing the competitiveness of the state
Spain	Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Study of first and second-line drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by molecular methods in clinical samples for preparedness of TB control healthcare system in Ukraine (TBpreparedness4Ukraine)
Spain	Universidad de Sevilla	ECO	Postdoctoral	24	Social welfare preferences towards sustainable development
Spain	Universidad de Valencia	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Chemical design of triazole-based spin crossover complexes for their integration in molecular spintronic devices
Spain	Universitat Rovira i Virgili	ENV	Postdoctoral	24	Climatological and meteorological aspects of heat waves in Europe
Spain	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Ultracool dwarfs modelling: the bridge between planets and stars
Sweden	Chalmers University of Technology	CHE	Postdoctoral	24	Carbon-induced corrosion in dual atmosphere relevant forSOFC/SOEC
Sweden	Uppsala University	LIF	Doctoral	24	Plants do not respect political borders: development of a unified classification system for conservation management
Sweden	Gothenburg University	SOC	Postdoctoral	24	Dialogues, disputes and battles: propaganda during the Great Northern War 1700–1721
Sweden	Lund University	LIF	Doctoral	24	Deciphering the role of sodium butyrate on the enteric nervous system and microglia phenotype in Alzheimer’s disease
Sweden	Uppsala University	PHY	Postdoctoral	24	Nanometre-scale emittance electron beams for laboratory X-ray Free- Electron Laser
Sweden	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	LIF	Postdoctoral	24	Genomic composition of Ukrainian apple germplasm

*Legend for Research Area:

CHE – Chemistry; ECO – Economic Sciences; ENG – Information Science and Engineering; ENV – Environment and Geosciences; LIF – Life Sciences; MAT – Mathematics; PHY – Physics; SOC – Social Sciences and Humanities

Last updated: 6 June 2023

This list is subject to change as applicants accept or decline their offers. The final list will be available in due course and may include applicants currently on the ranked reserve list.

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