Department of Antiquities, Philosophy, History (DAFIST) Organisation / Company: University of Genoa
Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure: No
Description - Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 The University of Genoa (UNIGE), located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality with an excellent track record to apply for the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.
Our University has been a beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is a funding scheme of the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.
The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs.
The research projects will have a duration of 2 or 3 years.
Selected candidates will receive special support for proposal writing and development.
The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass MSCA@UniGe.
Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal. This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts.
The masterclass will take place in May/June 2025.
MSCA domain: Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
Research Project Description The papyrological collections of the University of Genoa (PUG) (pug.unige.net) result from purchases at the Egyptian antiquarian market.
Its first nucleus, acquired in the summer of 1954, is housed at the Department of Antiquity, Philosophy, and History, and includes more than two hundred fragments, mainly Greek documents of Roman and Byzantine eras, which are partly unpublished.
The Postdoctoral fellowship candidate could:
Collaborate in the decipherment and first edition of the fragments, as well as on the revision of the already published papyri, focusing on specific typologies of documents.Collaborate on research about the history of the collection within the international context of the antiquity market of papyri in the second half of the XXI century.Collaborate in the conservation and valorization of the collection.Research Group The papyrological collection is housed at the Department of Antiquity, Philosophy, and History of the University of Genoa.
The department has a multidisciplinary environment and houses many international projects.
The candidate will be involved in a small research group, which has strong competence in Greek and Classical Philology, in a stimulating and favorable working environment for researchers.
Relevant bibliographical material and technical equipment, such as digital microscopes, are available.
For the MSCA-PF 25 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.
More info on MSCA PF is available at the following link:
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