Call for the FIAS Fellowship Programme 2027 is open now!! Apply today!!!
The French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS) Fellowship Programme strengthens scholarship and mobility by enlarging and upgrading the offer of scientific residencies in France to experienced international researchers. The FIAS Fellowship Programme is open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all other research fields interfacing with the SSH.
FIAS supports individual research: fellows, released from teaching and academic commitments, will benefit from unsegmented time to conduct bottom-up research with the greatest freedom, with the IAS strong scientific and extra-academic support.
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FIAS is designed to provide fellows with the material and intellectual conditions that will generate a significant boost to their professional careers, as they can produce in a short time what would have taken years to do in the fragmented time at their home institutions because of administration and teaching commitments.
FIAS fosters intellectual exchanges: fellows get exposed to the collective benevolent intelligence of international and multidisciplinary cohorts of fellows, which brings their work to a higher, and often transdisciplinary level.
FIAS gives scholars worldwide the possibility to spend one academic year (10-month fellowship) in one of the seven Institutes of Advanced Studies:
- IMéRA – Aix-Marseille
- CY AS – Cergy
- Le Studium – Loire Valley
- Collegium de Lyon
- Institute for Advanced Study –Nantes
- MAK’IT – Montpellier
- Institute for Advanced Study – Paris
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The applicants are strongly encouraged to consult the webpages of the host Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) to learn more about their specific scientific priorities, areas of focus, and institutional partners, as these should be carefully considered before applying.
FIAS fellows will benefit from the support and stimulating scientific environment offered by the IAS, characterized by a multidisciplinary cohort of fellows and strong connections to local research centers and laboratories. They will be free to organize their work and conduct research according to their own priorities and interests.
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).
Benefits
- 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’s home country)
- Skills training opportunities
Eligibilities
- Degree & experience: 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).
- Mobility: Applicants must fulfill 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.
- Disciplines: The FIAS Fellowship Programme is open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all other research fields interfacing with the SSH.
Application Process
- Applicants must create a user account via the arrow in the top right corner of the FIAS webpage.
- 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 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
Application Deadline: June 25, 2026 (12 Days Remaining)
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