Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are open for the FIAS Fellowship Programme 2026-2027. FIAS-FP is an international mobility programme that offers high-level scientific residencies in the seven IAS of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, and Paris. The standard duration of the residential fellowship is of 10 months over an academic year i.e. from September through June.
The FIAS Fellowship Programme supports high-quality innovative research as resident fellows conduct their project with the greatest academic freedom and benefit from the stimulating scientific and extra-academic support provided by the host institutes.
Initiated in 2020, the FIAS Fellowship Programme will now run until the 2029-2030 academic year. During the past four calls for applications (2021-2025), 120 fellowships were granted to experienced researchers from all fields of social sciences and the humanities and other research fields at the inferface with these sciences.
Fellowship
FIAS fellowships offer the following conditions:
- A net living allowance (equivalent to take-home pay) of €2,200 per month
- Two flexible contractual options, considering individual situations: work contracts or paid leave
- Adequate social security coverage
- Accommodation or support for relocation
- An individual research and training budget equivalent to €2,500 per year
- Travel expenses (one round trip from the fellow home country)
- Same working conditions as the IAS’ other fellows, including individual offices, special access and lending privileges in university-based research libraries, IT services, multiple collective spaces
- Skills training opportunities
Eligibility
- Open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all other research fields interfacing with the SSH. Applicants are strongly encouraged to check the IAS’ websites to learn more about the scientific orientation of the Institutes and their potential opening to disciplines outside the humanities and social sciences. Applications from artists matching the eligibility requirements are welcome.
- Researchers from all countries and nationalities are eligible to the Programme. Applicants must fulfil the transnational MSCA mobility rule: incoming researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline.
- At the time of the application deadline, researchers will have to be in possession of a doctoral degree plus 2 years of full-time research experience after the degree (PhD training period will not be considered in the calculation of experience).
- The FIAS Fellowship Programme is committed to ensuring equal opportunities and working towards greater diversity within its academic community. It will not discriminate against researchers in any way (gender, age, ethnic, national or social origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, language, disability, political opinion, social or economic condition).
Application
Applicants are required to submit the following documents (in English exclusively):
- The completed online application form
- A detailed curriculum vitae, including a list of publications and the contact details of three scholars familiar with your academic work
- A copy of the PhD diploma in a pdf format
- A detailed research proposal (maximum 5 pages- and a bibliography 1 additional page)*
- A selection of three to five key publications (articles or book chapters)
- Optional: Up to two letters of recommendation
* The research proposal must detail the scientific goals of the project, its relation to the current state of the art, the proposed methodology, the expected scientific outcomes, and a justification for the fellowship duration in light of its anticipated impact on both the research project and the applicant’s career development. An additional page may be included for the bibliography. The names of up to three scholars to be excluded from the peer-review process may be listed at the end of the document.
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