Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: March 2, 2026

Applications are open for the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) Fellowship 2026-2027. The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites purposes for eight residential fellowships for postdoctoral and superior researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the interval from September 2026 to April 2027.

Under the total theme “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity” MECAM is devoted to a analysis agenda framed by 5 interrelated ‘Interdisciplinary Research Fields’ (IRFs): Aesthetics & Cultural Practice, Inequality & Mobility, Memory & Justice, Resources & Sustainability, and Identities & Beliefs. Applications ought to be associated to the major theme and no less than one in every of the IRFs. This name for purposes is open to researchers from all international locations, together with Tunisia.

Benefits

• Travel and relocation prices might be compensated based on a “no gain/no loss” precept. A month-to-month stipend might be awarded for the length of the fellowship based on the “no gain/no loss” precept.

Eligibility

Applications are welcome from postdoc and superior researchers of all fields in the social sciences and humanities if:

• You have an interest in discussing your analysis in the framework of MECAM’s major theme “Imagining futures: Dealing with disparity” with colleagues from the Maghreb, the Middle East, Europe, and different areas of the world.
• You need to have interaction in collaborative work, in debate and change with different researches engaged on matters associated to the 5 IRFs.
• You have an interest in revisiting your analysis from a special vantage level.
• You need to grow to be part of a community of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and transregional change and debate on disparity and the competing fashions for the future that co- exist in the societies of the up to date Maghreb, Europe, and different components of the world.
• This name for purposes is open to researchers of all ages and genders from all international locations, together with Tunisia.
• Independent students and researchers with no present institutional affiliation are eligible to apply
• Please notice that present PhD candidates (doctoral college students) usually are not eligible to apply. The name is open to postdoctoral and superior researchers solely.

Application

As part of your application, you’ll be requested to arrange and add:

• Curriculum vitae together with publications (2-3 pages),
• Research proposal: Short summary of your mission (max. 1000 phrases),,
• One current writing pattern: journal article (printed or forthcoming), e book or thesis chapter.

In addition, throughout the application course of you’ll be requested to write down:

• A detailed rationalization of how your analysis proposal is linked to the Maghreb area and aligns with MECAM’s guiding theme “Imagining Futures Dealing with Disparity” and no less than one in every of its IRFs (1 2 pages), together with a transparent assertion of how you propose to have interaction with MECAM throughout your fellowship, highlighting its significance for your tutorial profession growth, and what particular targets you goal to acco mplish throughout your fellowship,
• Names and call particulars of two referees (college college members or practitioners in a discipline related to the applicant’s mission; no letters of advice required)

MECAM assigns its companion establishment, Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, with the processing of private application knowledge. Therefore, they kindly ask you to submit your application in English or French by way of the safe online application platform of the Forum Transregionale Studien by 2 March 2026, 12.30h CEST.

For extra info, go to MECAM Fellowship.