This is the edition of 22 October 2026. The announcements below are the ones compiled on that day. Read the current edition.
The following digest brings together a selection of notable announcements from European research bodies, each carrying direct relevance for doctoral candidates and early-career researchers navigating funding, careers, and international collaboration.
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 · 21 October 2026
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions has published an interactive collection featuring more than 100 researcher success stories and testimonials, allowing readers to explore outcomes by country or institution. For doctoral and early-career researchers, the publication offers a concrete sense of what participation in the programme can look like across different disciplines and career stages. It also serves as a practical resource for those considering an application and wanting to understand the range of research paths the programme has supported.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 20 October 2026
An article in Horizon Magazine marks the approaching 30th anniversary of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2026, reflecting on three decades during which more than 150,000 researchers have participated, including 25 Nobel laureates. The programme has grown from supporting around 800 researchers per year at its founding to approximately 8,000 annually, with companies, including many small and medium-sized enterprises, accounting for close to half of participating organisations. For early-career researchers, this context underlines the scale and cross-sector reach of a programme that connects academic training with industry and international mobility.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 6 October 2026
The 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine and in Physics were awarded to researchers with direct connections to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Georg Nagel, recognised for discoveries related to optogenetics, was a former MSCA fellow, while Francis Halzen, honoured for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, supervised an MSCA-funded project in neutrino astronomy. The awards highlight how fellowship and doctoral network funding can contribute to research that achieves lasting scientific impact. For researchers considering MSCA opportunities, these cases illustrate the kind of long-term career trajectories the programme has helped to shape.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 30 September 2026
An additional allocation of more than 210 million euros has been announced for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, responding to record demand: the 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call attracted 21,627 applications, the highest figure ever recorded across more than 40 years of EU research and innovation framework programmes. The extra funding will increase budgets for both Postdoctoral Fellowships and Doctoral Networks, with more than 1.3 billion euros foreseen for the programme in 2027. For doctoral and early-career researchers, this signals expanded opportunities under the final calls of the current Horizon Europe 2021 to 2027 framework.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions · 25 September 2026
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions has published a document outlining the programme's engagement with cancer research, set within its broader 6.6 billion euro budget for the period 2021 to 2027. The programme funds bottom-up research across all fields on the basis of scientific excellence, meaning cancer-focused projects compete alongside work in every other discipline. Researchers working in oncology or related biomedical areas may find this document a useful reference for understanding how their field fits within the programme's funding landscape.
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