25/05/2026
📢FIAS Fellowship Programme 2027/2028 – Call for applications still open
There is still just over a month left to apply!
📌The FIAS (French Institutes for Advanced Study) Fellowship Programme offers 10-month research residencies (from September to June) at seven Institutes located in Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Orléans-Tours, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, and Paris.
📚The program, coordinated by the RFIEA Foundation and co-funded by the European Commission (MSCA COFUND #101217263), aims to host high-level international researchers wishing to develop an innovative research project under excellent conditions within a French research institution.
✨For the 2027–2028 academic year, FIAS Fellowship Program offers 8 fellowship positions at the Paris IAS / IEA de Paris (17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris).
💡The call is open to all disciplines in the broad field of the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Research projects from other fields that interact with HSS are also eligible.
👉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 comply with the MSCA transnational 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 Fellowship includes:
🔹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
🗓 Application deadline: June 25, 2026
🤩Apply by creating an account on the FIAS portal.
For more information, please visit: https://www.fias-fp.eu/
