Deadline: 7 June 2017
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is currently accepting applications from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers around the world.
The EURIAS Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 19 participating Institutes: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Warsaw, Zürich.
EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 19 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.
Types of Fellowships
The EURIAS Fellowship Programme offers two types of 10-month fellowships according to research experience:
- Junior fellowships are offered to researchers having by the time of the application:
- a PhD
- 2 to 9 years of full-time research experience after obtaining the PhD (PhD training is not considered in the calculation of experience)
- Senior fellowships are offered to researchers having by the time of the application:
- a PhD
- minimum 10 years of full-time research experience after obtaining a PhD
Programme Areas
The programme is open to all disciplines in the fields of humanities and social sciences. It also welcomes applications from the arts, life and exact sciences provided that:
- the research project does not require any intensive laboratory work,
- the research project interfaces with humanities and social sciences,
- the applicant has a proven capacity to dialogue with other scientific disciplines,
- the candidate applies to an IAS that welcome scholars outside the humanities and social sciences.
Eligibility Criteria
- Degree
- At the time of the application, researchers must be in possession of a doctoral degree plus 2 years of full-time research experience after the degree. Exception is made for Law scholars who are eligible with a Master +6 years of full-time research experience after the degree. (PhD training is not considered in the calculation of experience).
- Mobility
- Researchers from all countries are eligible to the programme. At the time of the application, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of the selected host institute for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date -June 7th 2017 (short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not taken into account).
- Age
- There is no age discrimination.
How to Apply
- Applicants must provide full application forms, curricula, PhD diploma, publications, two letters of recommendation for junior applicants, detailed research proposals. Incomplete applications are not considered.
- All required application materials must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit The EURIAS Fellowship Programme 2018/2019.