This is the edition of 15 October 2026. The announcements below are the ones compiled on that day. Read the current edition.
This digest brings together a selection of notable announcements from European research bodies, covering funding developments, recognition milestones, and engagement opportunities relevant to doctoral and early-career researchers.
These summaries are written by Clau and each links to its original announcement. Clau is independent and not affiliated with the European Union or its research bodies.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 6 October 2026
Two of the 2026 Nobel Prizes have connections to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme: Georg Nagel, who received a fellowship at the University of Naples Federico II in the late 1990s, shares the Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, while Francis Halzen, a supervisor on the MSCA-funded ASTRONU project in neutrino astronomy, received the Prize in Physics for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. These recognitions illustrate how early-career funding and supervision roles within the programme can be connected to research that earns the highest scientific distinction. For doctoral and early-career researchers, the cases offer a concrete example of the long-term trajectories that MSCA-supported work can enable.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 30 September 2026
The European Commission has announced additional funding of more than 210 million euros for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, increasing the budgets for both Postdoctoral Fellowships and Doctoral Networks in response to record application numbers, with the 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowships call drawing over 21,000 submissions, the highest in the programme's history. The top-up forms part of the Commission's broader effort to attract and retain research talent in Europe, and more than 1.3 billion euros is foreseen for the programme in 2027. For early-career researchers, this means greater capacity within the programme to fund competitive applications under the final calls of the current Horizon Europe framework.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 25 September 2026
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions has published a document outlining the programme's support for cancer research within its 2021 to 2027 budget of 6.6 billion euros. The programme funds bottom-up research across all fields on the basis of scientific excellence, supporting researchers at all career stages and from around the world. Doctoral and early-career researchers working in cancer-related fields may find this document a useful reference for understanding the scope of MSCA funding relevant to their area.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 18 September 2026
A document published by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions highlights that close to 500 MSCA projects under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe have addressed democracy-related topics, spanning areas such as democratic institutions, civic participation, polarisation, disinformation, and digital democracy. This overview demonstrates the breadth of social science and humanities research that the programme has supported through competitive funding. Researchers in these fields can use the document to understand the range of democracy-focused work that has been funded and to situate their own projects within that landscape.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 14 September 2026
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions is inviting MSCA fellows and alumni to apply to present their research at the Science is Wonderful! science fair, which will take place in Brussels across three days in spring 2027. Participants set up booths featuring live experiments, interactive presentations, and other formats for groups of school pupils aged roughly 7 to 18, with each group spending around 15 minutes at a booth. This is a concrete opportunity for early-career researchers to develop public engagement skills and communicate their work to a non-specialist audience.
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