LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2025–2026 at KU Leuven – YOA

Imagine immersing your self within the coronary heart of one among Europe’s main analysis establishments, collaborating with world-class students, and exploring wealthy historic archives. The LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2025–2026 at KU Leuven provide an unparalleled alternative to raise your analysis, join with famend lecturers, and achieve entry to distinctive assets. If you might be a global researcher trying to advance your work and broaden your educational community, this fellowship is your golden ticket.

These fellowships are designed for students specializing in the study and transmission of texts, concepts, and pictures in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. They present a completely funded analysis keep at KU Leuven or Turnhout, masking lodging and journey bills. While non-stipendiary, the fellowship gives one thing way more worthwhile—mental enrichment, collaboration, and entry to intensive scholarly assets.

What Makes the LECTIO Visiting Fellowships Exceptional?

1# Prestigious Research Environment

• • KU Leuven is among the prime-ranked analysis universities on this planet.
  • Scholars work alongside main specialists in varied historic, literary, and digital humanities disciplines.

2# Fully Funded Fellowship

• • Covers journey bills (as much as €500) and lodging for a analysis keep of 4–6 weeks.
  • Fellows achieve entry to world-class KU Leuven Special Collections, archives, and digital assets.

3# Tailored Fellowships Based on Your Research Interests: Choose from six distinct LECTIO Visiting Fellowship choices:

• • Open LECTIO Fellowship (for unbiased analysis aligned with LECTIO initiatives).
  • LECTIO & KU Leuven Special Collections Fellowship (for students working with uncommon manuscripts and historic paperwork).
  • LECTIO & DigiSoc Fellowship (for digital humanities analysis on how previous texts and pictures work together with trendy applied sciences).
  • LECTIO & Brepols Fellowship (for researchers working with Brepols’ historic texts and databases in Turnhout).
  • LECTIO & Trismegistos+ Fellowship (for specialists in historical texts and metadata evaluation).

Who Can Apply?

The LECTIO Visiting Fellowship is open to students who maintain a PhD at the time of application. Candidates from all nationalities and educational backgrounds related to LECTIO’s analysis scope are inspired to apply.

Application Requirements:

• • A CV (most 2–3 pages)
  • A analysis proposal (1–2 pages) outlining your undertaking and its relevance to LECTIO.
  • A letter of help from at least one LECTIO member keen to behave as your educational host.
  • Clear indication of which fellowship(s) you might be making use of for.

Apply: https://www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visiting-fellowship-program/application-procedure.

Application Deadline

The final date to apply for the LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2025–2026 at KU Leuven is 16 March 2025.