The FIAS Fellowship Programme is run by the network of French Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS). For the 2027/2028 call it offers 29 ten-month residential fellowships across seven institutes — Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. Fellows pursue their own research project within a multidisciplinary cohort, with strong connections to local research centres.
The programme is open to all disciplines in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) and to other research fields that interface with the SSH. Selection is merit-based, through international independent peer review.
Benefits & funding
- Net living allowance (equivalent to take-home pay) of €2,200 per month for 10 months.
- Two flexible contractual options depending on your situation: a work contract, or paid leave from your home institution (where your existing salary is maintained).
- Accommodation, or support for relocation.
- An individual research and training budget of €2,500 per year.
- Travel expenses: one round trip from the fellow’s home country.
- Adequate social security coverage.
- Same working conditions as the institutes’ other fellows: individual office, access and lending privileges in university research libraries, IT services and shared collective spaces.
Eligibility
- Open to researchers of all countries and nationalities.
- Mobility rule: you must not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline.
- You must hold a doctoral degree plus at least 2 years of full-time research experience gained after the PhD (the PhD training period is not counted).
- Open to researchers of all career levels, from postdoctoral researchers to senior scientists.
- Research field must be within the Social Sciences and Humanities, or interface with the SSH.
- The application must be written in English; applications written even partially in another language are not considered.
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Education required
PhD
Experience required
≥ 2 yrs
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Application process
- 1Create an account in the FIAS online user space.
- 2Complete the online application form, including your research project (in English).
- 3Submit before the deadline; your file then goes through an eligibility check and international independent peer review.
Program timeline
Application deadline (6:00 pm Paris time)
Jun 25, 2026
Eligibility check
2026-07
International peer review
2026-08 to 2026-11
Pre-selection
2026-12
Final selection
2027-01 to 2027-02
Results announced
2027-03
Fellowships take place
Academic year 2027/2028