Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 35 Socio-Enviro[...] GENOVA

Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 35 Socio-Enviro[...]
Genova
Liguria, GENOVA

Organisation / Company: University of Genoa

Department: Department of Education

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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 Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of the funding schemes 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 to 3 years.

Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.

The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass.

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 activities of the 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 and June 2025 , with the first online training session scheduled for the 8th May 2025.

MSCA domain: Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

Research Project Description Candidatures are welcome on the following topics:

Social vulnerability and disaster recovery; how/which processes of re-production of vulnerability take place in post-disaster recovery/reconstruction, such as how disaster risk reduction processes can exacerbate social vulnerability.

Aspects of environmental and social justice should be considered.

Climate change adaptation and climate justice/inclusiveness; how processes of inclusiveness/climate justice are promoted in climate change adaptation policies/initiatives and/or how cases of maladaptation contribute to increasing disparities/injustice episodes.

More-than-human in climate change; how to promote a more-than-human perspective on climate change and/or how the anthropocentric perspective on climate change impacts nonhumans.

Climate change and land/sea grabbing; how climate change relates to/facilitates cases of land/sea grabbing with consequences on climate justice.

Works that especially consider (urban) political ecology and/or more-than-human geography are welcome.

Research Group The candidate fellow will collaborate with the geography group of the Disfor (Department of Education) at the University of Genoa.

In particular, the candidate fellow will work with Sara Bonati, an Assistant Professor in human geography who focuses on social vulnerability in disasters and has recently started to investigate aspects of the more-than-human in climate change.

She is especially involved in the collective "geo. naturae" that includes Italian geographers working on socio-natural processes ( and collaborates with the TetusLab, the laboratory of territorial, tourism, and sustainability studies at the Disfor.

The candidate fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in the initiatives organized by them.

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 deadline.

More info on MSCA PF can be found at the following link:

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