Closing date: 16 July 2025
Student type: International students are eligible for this scholarship program.
Level of study: doctoral degree
Study area: Any
Scholarship value:
- 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.
Description: 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.
This project is now receiving funding from the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme of the European Union under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA COFUND GA-101217263).
Eligibility:
- 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).
- 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.
- The FIAS Fellowhip Programme is open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to all other research fields interfacing with the SSH.
- Applicants must submit complete application forms and all requested documents via the online application platform. Incomplete applications will not be considered eligible.
How to apply: apply online
More info: https://www.fias-fp.eu/fellowships