Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
The MSCA are prestigious fellowships for researchers who want to carry out an independent research project at a host institution in a country other than the one where they have mainly lived in recent years.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) are funded by the EU’s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe (HE) and support excellent researchers with 0–8 years of research experience after their PhD.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships have a duration of up to two years.
- MSCA PF candidates apply jointly with a host organisation.
- The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are based on a two-way transfer of knowledge: from the researcher to the host institution, and from the host institution to the researcher.
2024
RESIST: Redefining statehood and citizenship for a climate-changed world
Start date: 1 September 2026
- Project leader: Francesca Rosignoli
- Mentor: Alejandra Mancilla
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
FUNCTUMUS: The Functional Turn in Music
- Project leader: Joseph Coughlan-Allen
- Mentor: Ragnhild Brøvig
- Department: RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (IMV)
FREITPWP: A History of Far-Right Europeanism in the Post-War Period
Start date: 1 August 2026
- Project leader: Martin Hamre
- Mentor: Elisabetta Cassina Wolff
- Department: Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
2023
SWON: From Villain to Antihero: She-Wolf in Old Norse Literature
- Project leader: Minjie Su
- Mentor: Karl-Gunnar Johansson
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
WARDEM: Wartime Demographic Engineering: War, Nationalism, and Population Politics in Putin’s Russia
- Project leader: Jules Sergei Fediunin
- Mentor: Helge Blakkisrud
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
SUNEM: Scribal Understandings of Norse Eddic Metres
- Project leader: Nelson Goering
- Mentor: Karl-Gunnar Johansson
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
PrepApp: An Embodied Scenes approach for the teaching and learning of English prepositions
- Project leader: Lacey Okonski
- Mentor: Ljiljana Saric
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
ECoSync: Emotional COupling in interpersonal SYNChronization
- Project leader: Andrii Smykovskyi
- Mentor: Jonna Vuoskoski
- Department: Department of Musicology (IMV)
2022
FemBod: Female Bodies in Sacred Spaces: Re-evaluating Women’s Agency in the Greek World
- Project leader: Giulia Frigerio
- Mentor: Silvio Bär
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
SynchInConcert: Synchronization of Physiological Rhythms between Musicians and Audiences in Live Concerts
- Project leader: Sara D'Amario
- Mentor: Alexander Refsum Jensenius
- Department: Department of Musicology (IMV)
CHAOCLRSC: Comparative-historical analysis of the clausal structure in Reefs-Santa Cruz languages
- Project leader: Valentina Alfarano
- Mentor: Åshild Næss
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
UCAN: Unifying classicality and non-classicality
- Project leader: Santiago Jockwich Martinez
- Mentor: Øystein Linnebo
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
Monkey Troubles: Confronting Control in Contemporary Singapore
- Project leader: Stuart Strange
- Mentor: Aike Rots
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
EarthSea: Ecocritical Approach to Land Subsidence in Italy's Po Delta region
- Project leader: Alessandro Brunazzo
- Mentor: Michael Lundblad
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
NARFIB: The Novel and the Refugee: Contemporary Global Fiction and the Imaginary of Border Regimes
- Project leader: Keyvan Allahyari
- Mentor: Johan Schimanski
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
Hindi-BabyNet: Linguistic and acoustic properties of infant-directed speech in Hindi-learning infant’s
- Project leader: Arun Prakash Singh
- Mentor: Natalia Kartushina
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
EUROPROP: Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion
- Project leader: Eleonora Cappuccilli
- Mentor: Unn Falkeid
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
TimeWorks: Modernist Occupations: Time in the Work of Literary Imagination
- Project leader: Wassim R. Rustom
- Mentor: Bruce Evan Barnhart
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
2021
FALLOW: Generative idleness and gestures of reparation: the resurgence and promises of intentional fallowing practices in European regenerative agriculture
- Project leader: Anna-Katharina Laboissière
- Mentor: Hugo Reinert
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
ScanDigiLit: Digital investigation on Scandinavian literature in France and Italy
- Project leader: Alessandra Ballotti
- Mentor: Giuliano D'Amico
- Department: Department: Centre for Ibsen Studies (ILN)
Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary
- Project leader: Rinni Haji Amran
- Mentor: Sissel Furuseth
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
Poles and People: Geographical Societies, Statehood, and Civil Society in Transnational Perspective (1870-1925)
- Project leader: Johannes Mattes
- Mentor: Ulrike Spring
- Department: Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
Polar Night/Midnight Sun: A history of sleep and time in the Arctic, 1800-1900
- Project leader: Kristin Hussey
- Mentor: Hugo Reinert
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
ConcTrad: A Conceptual History of 'Tradition' in the Modern Arab World: Egypt and Greater Syria in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Project leader: Mary Elston
- Mentor: Einar Wigen
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
ICBS: Iraqi Cinema Beyond the Screen
- Project leader: Pelle Valentin Olsen
- Mentor: Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
- Department: Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
HRPOE: Unique historiographical study into early Ottoman photography
- Project leader: İdil Çetin
- Mentor: Pasi Väliaho
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
2020
RethinkingMary: Rethinking Mary in Early Modern Italy: Men's and Women's perspectives on the Virgin Mary (1450-1650)
- Project leader: Eleonora Carinci
- Mentor: Unn Falkeid
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas (IFIKK)
MISS: Made in Sweatshops. Worker, technology and Gender (comparison Paris-Shanghai, Late 19th c.-Late 20th c.)
- Project leader: Audrey Millet
- Mentor: Veronique Pouillard
- Department: Department of Archeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
WomenThinkingLove: A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
- Project leader: Ida Caiazza
- Mentor: Unn Falkeid
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas (IFIKK)
DEKANT: The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy: Kant and Baumgarten on Right, Virtue, and Justice
- Project leader: Toshiro Osawa
- Mentor: Reidar Maliks
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas (IFIKK)
NAZM: Nezam and Nazm: Iran's Concept of International Order
- Project leader: Alireza Shams Lahijani
- Mentor: Einar Wigen
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
DIGIFOLK: Digital Folklore as Critical Heritage Production and Participation in Contemporary Norway
- Project leader: Tina Paphitis
- Mentor: Line Esborg
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
neoMONSTERS: The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction
- Project leader: Sami Ahmad Khan
- Mentor: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
BSW: Becoming Indigenous language speakers and writers in higher education
- Project leader: Frances Kvietok Dueñas
- Mentor: Pia Lane
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
SOVEL: Soviet Ellipses: Omissions as Techniques of Border Transgression in Photography, Literature, and Everyday Life
- Project leader: Vera Faber
- Mentor: Johan Schimanski
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
IMEP DCCP: Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project
- Project leader: Alpo Honkapohja
- Mentor: Jacob Thaisen
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
EU EB-PARENTING: Ethnicity-Based Parenting for Child’s Online Safety/Risks
- Project leader: Seffetullah Kuldas
- Mentor: Elisabeth Staksrud
- Department: Department of Media and Communication (IMK)
2019
FASHION IN IR: The Dematerialization of Fashion and France's Couture Propaganda during the 1960s and 1970s
- Project leader: Vincent Dubé-Senécal
- Mentor: Veronique Pouillard
- Department: Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
MigraLing: Between migration and linguistics: Greeks in Western Europe and the emergence of contrastive grammar in the Renaissance (c.1390–1600)
- Project leader: Raf Van Rooy
- Mentor: Han Lamers
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
LiVE: Living with Vultures in the Sixth Extinction: An Ethnographic Study of Avian Conservation in Changing European Landscapes
- Project leader: Sara Asu Schroer
- Mentor: Ursula Münster
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
GlAntiFem: Globalizing Anti-Feminism: A Phenomenology of Transnational Networks of Islamic Women Organizations
- Project leader: Laila Makboul
- Mentor: Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
GeMeTIC: Gestural Meanings: Typology and Interface Constraints
- Project leader: Maria Esipova
- Mentor: Patrick Grosz
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
ISC-Oslo: Incremental Sound Change in Oslo
- Project leader: Nathan Young
- Mentor: Sverre Stausland Johnsen
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
2018
WomenWritingSaints: Proto-feminist Discourses in Religious texts written by Women in Counter-Reformation Italy
- Project leader: Clara Stella
- Mentor: Unn Falkeid
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
MESSIAH: Authoritarianism and Messianic Conceptions of Politics in Turkey 1850-2015
- Project leader: Alp Topal
- Mentor: Helge Jordheim
- Department: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
INFINITY: Infinity in Mathematics: A Philosophical analysis of Critical Views of Infinity
- Project leader: Laura Crosilla
- Mentor: Øystein Linnebo
- Department: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
INFLOW: Finding Flow: Negotiating diverse temporalities in migrant family life
- Project leader: Sabina Joy Vakser
- Mentor: Elizabeth Lanza
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
AmNorSSC: American Norwegian Sound Systems and Language Contact
- Project leader: David Albert Natvig
- Mentor: Janne Bondi Johannessen
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
IPG_CORE: Looking for the Impersonal Core -- Impersonal Pronouns across Germanic languages
- Project leader: Sarah Zobel
- Mentor: Pritty Patel-Grosz
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
LangMix: Language switching and script mixing: multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia
- Project leader: Alessandro Palumbo
- Mentor: Karl-Gunnar Johansson
- Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
FR and ENG Petrarch: Translational Traditions and Imaginaries: A Comparative History of Petrarch’s Canzoniere in French and English
- Project leader: Riccardo Raimondo
- Mentor: Francesco Venturi
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
RecBord: Recording the Borders: Sounding Displacement and Integration in Europe
- Project leader: Tom Western
- Mentor: Kyle Devine
- Department: Department of Musicology (IMV)
2017
Readers as Observers: The construction of readers as (co-)observers in multimodal novels. Radical reader engagement in the visual age
- Project leader: Natalia Igl
- Mentor: Karin Kukkonen
- Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
NEW_WAY: New speakers and use of Russian in Northern Norway
- Project leader: Olga Solovova
- Mentor: Pia Lane
- Department: Multiling Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (ILN)
MultiPic: Language-Affect Interface in Parent-Infant Communication
- Project leader: Liquan Liu
- Mentor: Elizabeth Lanza
- Department: Multiling Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (ILN)