French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme (Fully-funded) 2024

FIAS is an international mobility programme proposing high-level scientific residencies in the seven Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris and Rennes.

The FIAS fellowship programme supports high-quality and innovative research as fellows conduct their research with the greatest freedom and benefit from the strong scientific and extra-academic support by the institutes. Initiated in 2020, the FIAS Fellowship programme will run until the 2024-2025 academic year. For the 2024-2025 academic year, 40 fellowships of 10 months are available for experienced researchers from all fields of social sciences and the humanities.

About French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS)

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme proposes to strengthen scholarship and mobility in the Social Sciences and Humanities by enlarging and upgrading the offer of scientific residencies in France to international experienced researchers. It will give SSH scholars worldwide the possibility to spend one academic year in four of France’s most innovative scientific regions, in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Montpellier. FIAS supports individual research: fellows, released from teaching and academic commitments, will conduct in unsegmented time bottom-up research with ... read more

FIAS Fellowship Programme

Aim and Benefits of FIAS Fellowship Programme

• 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

Requirements for FIAS Fellowship Programme Qualification

• Open to outstanding researchers of all career levels, from postdoctoral researchers to senior scientists.
• The minimum requirement is a PhD + 2 years of research experience at the time of the application. 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).
• Researchers from all countries are eligible to the FIAS Fellowship Programme but they must have spent no more than 12 months in France during the three years prior to the application deadline.

Interview date, Process and Venue for FIAS Fellowship Programme

Timeline

• April 17th, 2023: opening of the application platform
• June 6th, 2023, 6:00 pm (Paris, France time): deadline for applications
• June 2023: eligibility check
• July-October 2023: double peer review
• November 2023: preselection by the FIAS Selection Committee (communication of preselection results, December 2023) 
• January - February 2024: selection of fellows by IAS Scientific Advisory Boards and communication of results 

Documents Required for Application

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

How to Apply

For more detail,visit FIAS website