Department of Italian Studies, Romance Studies, Antiquities, Arts and Performing Arts (DIRAAS)
Organisation / Company: University of Genoa
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.
MSCA fellowship grants provide 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 or 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 MSCA@UniGe. 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 activity 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/June 2025.
MSCA domain: Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
Research Project Description
Candidates working on the nineteenth century are especially welcomed. Topics of research include:
1. Cost and revenue structure, and entrepreneurial strategies of actor managers companies (fundraising, production and repertoire, international and long-distance touring)
2. Celebrity and marketing strategies: European actresses and female singers touting within the globalization of theatre
3. International touring of permanent, subsidized theatre companies
4. The role of impresarios and theatre agents in global touring
Research Group
The candidate fellow will work within the Genoa unit of the national research group "Performing Arts, Economics, and Cultural Policies. New Interpretative Paradigms between Aesthetics and Social Sciences". The research group’s activities aim at renewing the methodologies and perspectives for investigating the performing arts through dialogue and interdisciplinary cooperation between Humanities (Theatre Studies, Musicology, and Aesthetics) and Social Sciences (Economics and Law) with the help of Informatics. Website: Performing Arts Economics
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 abovementioned deadline.
More info on MSCA PF are available at the following link:
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