Fellowship programs
The Paris IAS offers internationally renowned academics five to ten-month research stays in Paris during which, freed from the obligations of academic life, they conduct the project of their choice in an interdisciplinary environment. Shorter stays are also offered within the framework of dedicated invitation schemes, such as the brand new CAT program.
Fellowship programs (long stays, 10 months)
Non Thematic Fellowships
Research projects proposed at the Paris IAS can be in all disciplines and themes of the humanities and social sciences and must have an interdisciplinary dimension.
The essential selection criterion is the excellence of the project and its leader. The Paris IAS aims above all to support original projects (methods, interdisciplinarity, theoretical innovation...), which significantly advance the state of the art. The impact of the research beyond the discipline and/or the academic field is also taken into account.
The Paris IAS also supports work aimed at addressing major and urgent threats to the future of our societies, giving researchers complete freedom to choose the theme, on the sole condition that they respond to these vital issues through fundamental research or intersectoral collaborative projects (associating non-academic actors: the political, economic, and associative worlds).
The Brain, Culture and Society Program
The Paris IAS promotes a specific program to link mind and brain, humanities and social sciences and neurosciences. Particular attention is paid to topics related to major societal challenges: child development, ageing, health, education and learning, addictions, the effect of new digital and information technologies, tolerance, aggressiveness, fanaticism, etc.
The aim of this dialogue is to enable the humanities and social sciences, as well as the brain sciences, to renew their perspectives on classical objects and to open new fields of research with bold and innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
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The Paris IAS is a member of the FIAS program (MSCA COFUND), which offers high-level researchers in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to carry out 10-month research residencies in five French Institutes for Advanced Study. Starting in 2021, its annual call for applications for non-thematic fellowships and fellowships in the Brain, Culture and Society program will be covered by the FIAS program.
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Research Chairs
Two research chairs have been created in partnership with two prestigious universities in the Ile-de-France region, allowing for the stay of one or two researchers.
• The "Jean D'Alembert" chair created with the University of Paris-Saclay offers a researcher the possibility of developing or pursuing a research project in the fields of "Markets, business, work and innovation", "Heritage, cultures and knowledge", or "Science, ethics and society", and to benefit from a first-rate interdisciplinary scientific environment during a 6-month residency.
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• The Chair "Major Societal Changes: Environmental Transition / AI" created with Sorbonne University gives the opportunity to high-level international researchers in the humanities and social sciences to develop or pursue an innovative research project to advance knowledge on the societal impacts and ethical dimensions of major global changes, and in particular environmental transition or artificial intelligence during a 10-month research residency or two 5-month residencies at the Paris IAS.
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Short stays
The CAT Program
Created in 2019 by the Paris IAS and supported by several institutes for advanced study in Europe, the CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) initiative aims to foster networks of excellent early-career researchers dedicated to developing new ideas for understanding and addressing current and emerging societal challenges, and to help transform these ideas into real-world action. Although it has a strong focus on the societal relevance of the projects, the CAT program is entirely non-thematic. The program supports basic research and promotes openness to non-academic actors (industry, policy makers, NGOs...) willing to support or engage in innovative research initiatives.
The CAT program helps groups of 3 to 5 people, led by an early-career researcher from any discipline, and possibly including PhD students, to work on their project for up to 3 years. In order to allow them to exchange and mature their ideas, the groups have the opportunity to meet for short stays (two weeks maximum) in the participating institutes, and to be put in contact with local residents and research communities.
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One-month writing residencies
Launched in September 2023, the one-month writing residencies enable outstanding SSH researchers to work on an article that presents the "definitive" version of an idea or concept they've been working on but haven't had the opportunity to formalize in a clear, widely accessible publication. The program is also open to professionals who have recently held positions of high responsibility and who will formalize their experience in a publication. In both cases, we select ideas and concepts that have the potential to become influential pieces beyond their own discipline.
No unsolicited applications are accepted for this program: candidates are identified by a group of 27 Editorial Fellows and the IAS Scientific Advisory Board, and are invited on a rolling basis.
Among them :
- Helga Nowotny
- John Krumm
- Uichol Kim
- Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
- Colette Colligan
- Leor Zmigrod
- Jonathan Glasser
- Lina Restrepo-Plaza
- and 19 other leading researchers in the social sciences and humanities from around the world.
The POP Program
As part of the agreement established between the University of Paris, the CNRS, and the University of Oxford to promote interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences, the Paris IAS welcomes Oxford scholars for short stays (one to two months).
These scholars, who must conduct their research in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Paris or the Sorbonne Paris-Cité Alliance, are selected jointly by the university, the CNRS, and the Paris IAS. They benefit from the same conditions of residence as IAS researchers and can thus develop their research work within a leading international and interdisciplinary community.
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