French Institutes for Advanced Study 2025 Fellowship

The French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS) is happy to welcome applications from motivated international scholars to apply for the 2025 Fellowship Program. Interested Applicants are encouraged to apply.

The Fellows will benefit from the support and conducive scientific environment offered by the IAS characterized by an interdisciplinary cohort of fellows and a close relation to the local research potential. The candidates will be allow to organize their work and conduct research as they want.

The French Institutes for Advanced Study offers a 10-month fellowships in the six Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Loire Valley, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris creating way for high level international scholars and scientists primarily in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities (SSH).

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Fellowship Summary:

Fellowship Sponsor(s): French Institutes for Advanced Study, France

Fellowship Type: Fully-funded

Host Institution(s): French Institutes for Advanced Study, France

Fellowship Worth: Living allowance of €2,700 per month, accommodation, etc.

Number of Awards: 40

Study Level: Masters & PhD

Nationality: Domestic & International Student

Requirement and Eligibility Criteria for the French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship:

Applicants will have to be in possession of a doctoral degree plus 2 years of full-time research experience after the degree. Exception will be made for scholars with a Master + 6 years of full-time research experience after the degree (PhD training will not be considered in the calculation of experience.
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.
The Programme is open to all Social Sciences and the Humanities
Applicants must provide full application forms and all requested documents through the online application platform. Incomplete and late applications are not considered eligible. Applications not complying with the maximum length criteria will not be considered. Applications in languages other than English (also partially) will not be considered.

Benefits For the French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship:

A net living allowance (equivalent to take-home pay) of €2,700 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

Application Procedures for the French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship (How to Apply):

The application is to be completed exclusively via the FIAS website. Applicants must create a user account via the arrow in the high right corner of the fias webpage.

Document Requirements:

The requested application material (in English exclusively) will consist of:
The completed online application form
A detailed curriculum vitae with a comprehensive list of publications
A copy of the diploma
A detailed research proposal (maximum 5 pages and a bibliography – 1 additional page)
A selection of three to five publications (articles or book chapters)
A letter of support/interest by an IAS’s local scientific partner -only requested and mandatory for Le Studium (Loire Valley IAS), for the Collegium de Lyon, for MAK’IT (Montpellier IAS), and for the Paris IAS.
Optional: Up to two letters of recommendation

Application Deadline: Opens in July

For more information Visit the Official Website.