Vilnius University (VU) invites talented and motivated researchers to apply for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) with VU as host institution. The objective of MSCA PF is to support researchers’ careers, enhance their creative and innovative potential and foster excellence in research. This action targets researchers holding a PhD who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility and implement original and personalised research project. Applications are made jointly by the researcher and a host institution.

Founded in 1579 VU is one of the oldest higher education institutions in Eastern and Central Europe and the largest university in Lithuania involved in multidisciplinary academic activity. It tops the ranking as the number one university in Lithuania and leads the country in education, a broad spectrum of fundamental and applied research, training and retraining programs, and consultancy services and provides research and development services to a wide range of businesses. VU offers dynamic research and training environment and is well integrated into numerous academic, business, social and other networks and associations.
VU is a member of the Arqus European University Alliance which brings together nine longstanding comprehensive research universities with deep regional engagement – the universities of Granada, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon 1, Maynooth, Padova, Wroclaw, Minho and Vilnius. Among other priorities Arqus aims to increase joint research capacity of the partner universities by enhancing actual research collaboration within the Alliance and with European and global partners, sharing best practices and resources, fostering joint doctoral and post-doctoral initiatives as the basis for researcher career development, offering training and thus making Arqus an attractive space for talent from around the world.
VU provides opportunities for doctoral graduates from other institutions to engage in the university-based research, to take advantage of research infrastructure at the university and to acquire new research skills and scientific knowledge under the direction of an experienced supervisor. apply here, https://lnkd.in/d-nrgYPT