CALL OPEN – LS4FUTURE Marie Curie Visitor Grants

CALL OPEN: LS4FUTURE Marie Curie Visitor Grants

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We are pleased to announce the opening of our new call, designed to strengthen our ability to attract exceptional postdoctoral talent: Marie Curie Visitor Grants.

This call will support travel and accommodation for five short visits aimed at developing competitive MSCA proposals together with LS4FUTURE supervisors at:

iBET
IPO Lisboa
ITQB NOVA
NIMSB
NOVA Medical School

Our goal is to bring promising researchers with complementary expertise into closer contact with our scientific community and to reinforce LS4FUTURE’s strategic positioning in the upcoming 2026 MSCA call.

What is on the table?

LS4FUTURE will provide five competitive travel grants, one per institution with a maximum value of 900€ each, to be used for trip and accommodation expenses.

Who should consider this?

Postdocs eligible for the 2026 MSCA call who:
• Have secured a host supervisor in the target LS4FUTURE institution
• Bring complementary expertise to the host laboratory
• Want to experience our research environment firsthand

How the project will be reviewed?

Eligible applications will be evaluated by internal reviewers, based on:

Scientific excellence and candidate potential to succeed in Marie Curie Fellowship Call (including letter of support from supervisor) – 50%
Feasibility and value of the visit to the Marie Curie proposal – 20%
Complementarity of expertise relative to host lab – 20 %
Alignment with LS4FUTURE Thematic Lines research – 10%

If an institution does not receive applications, the review panel may attribute a second grant to an outstanding candidate applying to visit another institution, based on proposal ranking.

Call opens:

23 April 2026

Call closes:

14 May 20206

APPLICATIONS

Before applying, please read carefully all the details of the call on the Marie Curie Grants Visitor Framework.

Applications to the grant must be submitted using the Marie Curie Visitor Grants Application Form and must not exceed four pages.

They must be submitted via email (ls4future@ls4future.pt) with the subject “Marie Curie Visitor Grant APPLICATION”, and include the host laboratory supervisor at the LS4FUTURE institution.

Please contact the LS4FUTURE Coordination Office (ls4future@ls4future.pt) for further information or clarification.

The Associate Laboratory LS4FUTURE is supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) through the funding LA/P/0087/2020 (DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0087/2020).

The Associated Laboratory LS4FUTURE is supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) through the funding LA/P/0087/2020.