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CFA | Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026

Fellowship for CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences & IAS CEU Budapest Fellows

Initiated in 2025, the Oszkár Sárkány fellowship commemorates a Hungarian Bohemist (1912–1943), working for a new inclusive and transnational perspective on cultural history with strong ties to French developments in humanities and social sciences, who died tragically young during World War II in a punishment battalion where he was sent because of his oppositional stance to the Horthy regime.

Central European University Institute for Advances Studies (CEU IAS) & Parisian Institut d’études avancées (Paris IEA) in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants to Budapest (for IEA fellows) and Paris (for CEU IAS fellows) starting from the academic year 2025/2026.

SCHEDULES

For IAS CEU fellows → Paris:

  • July 14, 2025: Opening of the call
  • September 15, 2025, 23:59 CET: Deadline for submissions
  • September 30, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 1 month in Paris
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026

For CNRS fellows → IAS CEU Budapest:

  • July 20, 2025: Opening of the call
  • October 15, 2025: Deadline for submissions
  • October 25, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 15 days in Budapest
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026
ELIGIBILITY

At IAS CEU: all 2024/2025 & 2025/2026 fellows
At CNRS: all permanent members of CNRS SHS research units

FELLOWSHIPS

For IAS CEU fellows in Paris:

  • 1-month accommodation at the Cité Universitaire
  • Travel costs
  • Lump sum for daily expenses

For CNRS fellows in Budapest:

  • 15-day accommodation at Wallenberg Guesthouse
  • Travel costs offered by CEFRES
  • Office at IAS CEU

A joint workshop with 2025–2026 fellows & researchers from CEU, CNRS & CEFRES will be organized in Budapest in Spring 2026 around one of the themes developed by the 2025–2026 fellows.

PREFERRED RESEARCH SCOPE 2025
  • Central-Eastern Europe
  • Illiberalism, global and local
  • Scholars at risks, academic freedom & invisible university
APPLICATION PACKAGE (in English or French)

French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

Application deadline: July 16th, 2025 – 6:00 pm

Applications are submitted online via www.fias-fp.eu where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria and selection procedure.

Find more info here.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, FIAS offers 28 fellowship positions: 7 in Aix Marseille, 3 in Cergy, 2 in Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), 3 in Lyon, 2 in Montpellier, 4 in Nantes and 7 in Paris. Continue reading French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

CFA – Joint Mobility Grant of the French Government And The Slovak Academy Of Sciences

Joint Mobility Grant of the French Government and the Slovak Academy of Sciences for young researchers in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2025

The French Embassy in Slovakia, the French Institute of Slovakia and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the French Centre for Research in Social Sciences (CEFRES), are offering a programme to support scientific stays in the field of humanities and social sciences in France during the year 2025. This programme is intended for young researchers working in institutes and centres of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The objective of this programme is to support Slovak-French cooperation in this field through a two-month research stay in France. Consequently, applications will be submitted individually by young researchers.

The ambition of the programme is to create sustainable research synergies between French and Slovak partners working in collaborative networks on innovative and interdisciplinary research topics in humanities and social sciences.

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CFA – Research and teaching stay at the EHESS in Paris in 2025

Call for applications: one month visiting professor at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris

As part of the cooperation agreement between EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University in Prague and the Czech Academy of Sciences and the partnership between EHESS and CEFRES, concluded with the aim of intensifying Franco-Czech scientific exchanges in the field of humanities and social sciences, EHESS proposes the hosting of a teacher/researcher from a Czech academic institution for one month between February and June, or between October and December 2025, thanks to the support of the French Embassy in the Czech Republic.

Duration: One month
Period: February-June, October-December 2025
Applications are to be sent no later than: November 30, 2024

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CNRS International mobility grants | Incoming

CNRS International mobility grants for short research stays at CEFRES (Incoming SMI)

Within its international policy, CNRS Humanities  & Social Sciences offers financial support for incoming international mobility with the aim of hosting foreign researchers who wish to develop a collaboration with CEFRES (or another CNRS research center located in France or abroad: see the call on CNRS website here). Continue reading CNRS International mobility grants | Incoming

CNRS International Emerging Action / AVČR Mobility Plus – CFA 2022

CNRS International Emerging Action (IEA)

International Emerging Actions are PI-to-PI projects whose purpose is to explore new fields of research and international partnerships through: short-term mobility of scientists, the organisation of working meetings, and the initiation of early-stage joint research works for shared scientific projects. These actions have a duration of two years.

As a complement to the resources provided directly by participating teams, International Emerging Actions receive funds earmarked by the CNRS for international mobility between the laboratories
involved, for organising working meetings, and implementing field assignments between partners, for a total amount comprised between €10,000-€14,000 over the duration of the project.

See the presentation of the Programme on CNRS website here
and read the complete 2022 call on CNRS website here.

In the Czech Republic, the partner institution of the programme is the Czech Academy of Sciences.

See the terms and condition on the website of the Czech Academy of Scieces here.

In 2022, the calendar of the programme was as follows:

  • Launch date of the call for proposals: CNRS: June 22, 2022, CAS: June 27, 2022
  • Closure date of the call for proposals: September 16, 2022
  • Release of the results: December 2022
  • Start date of the projects: January 2023