Seven Marie Curie Fellowships for the University of Bern

Each year, the European Commission awards Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Individual Fellowships to post-doctoral researchers. Seven Fellowships went to researchers of the University of Bern, making it the most successful candidate institution in Switzerland. The individual fellowships are awarded under Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) as part of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020. The aim of the funding programme is to improve the quality of research training and career development for young researchers by supporting a project at a foreign university. Researchers find a supervisor in their field who is able to offer an excellent environment for their development and for their project, and together with their supervisor, the fellows apply to Horizon 2020. At the end of January 2018, the European Commission announced that it was awarding a total of 1348 MSCA Individual Fellowships. Seven went to researchers at the University of Bern.