French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 16, 2025

Applications are open for the French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme 2026-2027. The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme gives 10 months fellowships on the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes purposes from excessive-stage worldwide students and scientists to develop their revolutionary analysis initiatives in France.

The FIAS Fellowhip Programme is open to all disciplines within the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all different analysis fields interfacing with the SSH. Applicants are strongly inspired to seek the advice of the webpages of the host Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) to study extra about their particular scientific priorities, areas of focus, and institutional companions, as these needs to be rigorously thought of earlier than making use of. 

FIAS Fellows will profit from the assist and stimulating scientific surroundings provided by the IAS, characterised by a multidisciplinary cohort of fellows and robust connections to native analysis facilities and laboratories. They shall be free to prepare their work and conduct analysis in accordance with their very own priorities and pursuits.

Benefits

FIAS fellowships provide the next situations:

• A web dwelling allowance (equal to take-home pay) of €2,200 per 30 days
• Two versatile contractual choices, contemplating particular person conditions: work contracts or paid go away
• Adequate social safety protection
• Accommodation or assist for relocation
• An particular person analysis and coaching funds equal to €2,500 per yr
• Travel bills (one spherical journey from the man home nation)
• Same working situations because the IAS’ different fellows, together with particular person workplaces, particular entry and lending privileges in college-based mostly analysis libraries, IT providers, a number of collective areas
• Skills coaching alternatives

Eligibility

• At the time of the application deadline, researchers should be in possession of a doctoral diploma plus 2 years of full-time analysis expertise after the diploma (PhD coaching interval won’t be thought of within the calculation of expertise).
• Researchers from all nations and nationalities are eligible to the Programme. Applicants should fulfil the transnational MSCA mobility rule: incoming researchers should not have resided or carried out their principal exercise (work, research, and many others.) in France for greater than 12 months within the 3 years instantly previous to the decision deadline.
• The FIAS Fellowhip Programme is open to all disciplines within the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all different analysis fields interfacing with the SSH. Applicants are strongly inspired to check the IAS’ web sites to study extra in regards to the scientific orientation of the Institutes and their potential opening to disciplines outdoors the humanities and social sciences. Applications from artists matching the eligibility necessities are welcome.
• Applicants should submit full application varieties and all requested paperwork by way of the web application platform. Incomplete purposes won’t be thought of eligible. Applications exceeding the utmost size standards won’t be thought of. Applications written (even partially) in a language apart from English won’t be thought of. Late submissions won’t be accepted – the web platform prevents submission after the deadline.
• The FIAS Fellowship Programme is dedicated to making sure equal alternatives and dealing in direction of better variety inside its educational neighborhood. It won’t discriminate in opposition to researchers in any method (gender, age, ethnic, nationwide or social origin, faith or perception, sexual orientation, language, incapacity, political opinion, social or financial situation).

Application

Applicants are required to submit the next paperwork (in English solely):

• The accomplished on-line application kind
• An in depth curriculum vitae, together with a checklist of publications and the contact particulars of three students aware of your educational work
• A copy of the PhD diploma in a pdf format
• An in depth analysis proposal (most 5 pages- and a bibliography 1 further web page)
• A choice of three to 5 key publications (articles or ebook chapters)
• Optional: Up to 2 letters of advice

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