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

Deadline: Ongoing

Applications are open for the FIAS Fellowship Programme 2026-2027. FIAS-FP is a world mobility programme that provides excessive-degree scientific residencies within the seven IAS of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, and Paris. The normal length of the residential fellowship is of 10 months over a tutorial 12 months i.e. from September via June.

The FIAS Fellowship Programme helps excessive-high quality modern analysis as resident fellows conduct their challenge with the best educational freedom and profit from the stimulating scientific and additional-educational assist offered by the host institutes. 

Initiated in 2020, the FIAS Fellowship Programme will now run till the 2029-2030 educational 12 months. During the previous 4 calls for functions (2021-2025), 120 fellowships have been granted to skilled researchers from all fields of social sciences and the humanities and different analysis fields on the inferface with these sciences. 

Fellowship

FIAS fellowships supply the next situations:

• A web residing allowance (equal to take-home pay) of €2,200 monthly
• 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 finances equal to €2,500 per 12 months
• Travel bills (one spherical journey from the guy home nation)
• Same working situations because the IAS’ different fellows, together with particular person places of work, particular entry and lending privileges in college-primarily based analysis libraries, IT providers, a number of collective areas
• Skills coaching alternatives

Eligibility

• 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 be taught extra in regards to the scientific orientation of the Institutes and their potential opening to disciplines exterior the humanities and social sciences. Applications from artists matching the eligibility necessities are welcome.
• 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 so on.) in France for greater than 12 months within the 3 years instantly previous to the decision deadline.
• At the time of the application deadline, researchers must 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-about within the calculation of expertise).
• The FIAS Fellowship Programme is dedicated to making sure equal alternatives and dealing in the direction of better range inside its educational neighborhood. It won’t discriminate in opposition to researchers in any approach (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 type
• An in depth curriculum vitae, together with a record of publications and the contact particulars of three students conversant in 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 extra web page)*
• A number of three to 5 key publications (articles or ebook chapters)
• Optional: Up to 2 letters of advice

* The analysis proposal should element the scientific objectives of the challenge, its relation to the present state-of-the-art, the proposed methodology, the anticipated scientific outcomes, and a justification for the fellowship length in mild of its anticipated influence on each the analysis challenge and the applicant’s profession improvement. An extra web page could also be included for the bibliography. The names of as much as three students to be excluded from the peer-evaluate course of could also be listed on the finish of the doc.

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For extra data, see FAQ and go to FIAS Fellowship Programme.