Call Expression of Interest MSCA Postdoctoral fellowships at UNIGE – N. Intangible Cu

Job Overview

Organisation / Company University of Genoa Department Law Department Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026. Our University has been beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of funding scheme of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersect oral exchanges.

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 2- or 3-years duration.

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 MSCA@Uni Ge.Selectedcandidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-days 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 proposal, includingprescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organisation of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of Uni Ge, National Contact Point and other experts.

The masterclass will take place in Spring
2026
.

MSCA domain: Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)

The project concerns the topic of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in order to carry out research about the national, european and international regulations of the Intangible Cultural Heritage itself: such as the two UNESCO Conventions signed in Paris in 2003 and in 2005 (the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions), as well as the Council of Europe Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, adopted in Faro in 2005, but also the Italian, the Spanish and the French rules.

The ultimate goal of this study is to analyse and understand the impact of those regulations in order to achieve their harmonization.

teaching activities of administrative law, and in particular of the cultural heritage law, are performed in an interdisciplinary way, also taking into account the development of the ICT. We are part of two PhD boards (PhD course in Law and PhD Course in Security risk and vulnerability). We are members the Strategic Sea Study Centre and of the Strategic Centre in Security risk and vulnerability.

We collaborate with different national or foreign Universities and research institutions, and we currently involved in two research national projects activated by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

An expression of interest shall be sent to prof. Matteo Timo (matteo.timo , Orcid :

-085X) within 15th April 2026.
Your file should contain the following elements:

For MSCA-PF 26 call (opening foreseen on 10th April 2026), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (9th September 2026) 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 above mentioned deadline.

Info on MSCA PF available at the following link: