About us

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme strengthens scholarship and mobility in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and at the interface between SSH and other sciences. It gives scholars worldwide the opportunity to spend 10 months in the most innovative scientific regions in France:

- Aix Marseille
- Cergy
- Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours)
- Lyon
- Montpellier
- Nantes
- Paris                                                                               

The leading principle of FIAS fellowships is to foster path-breaking research and to boost career opportunities by bringing fellows to the next level of excellence and widening their intellectual, scientific and professional horizons. Released from their regular academic and teaching commitments, the fellows focus on their projects and benefit from a knowledge-sharing environment combining:

‒ The greatest freedom in terms of subject and approach;
‒ The opportunity to perform scholarly work over unfragmented time;
‒ The intellectual openness to overcome the customary disciplinary limitations;
‒ The outstanding material conditions for carrying out individual and collaborative research;
‒ Guided access to high-level national and international research networks

FIAS offer experimental spaces where researchers conduct blue sky research with the greatest possible freedom and with stimulating IAS scientific and extra-academic support. They support individual research as fellows can stray from the customary paths of their disciplines and benefit from a programme tailored to nurture new collaborations between French, European and international researchers and institutions.

FIAS will offer 112 fellowships of 10 months to experienced researchers over a 60-month period.

In the Spring of 2025, 28 fellowships are proposed in the 2026-2027 call for applications.

FIAS is coordinated by the RFIEA Foundation (Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study), a foundation for scientific cooperation created by the French Ministry of Research in 2007 to support the development of the French IAS. The RFIEA Foundation successfully coordinated three similar grants for the EURIAS/FIAS Fellowship Programme since 2010.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA COFUND GA-101217263)

 

The FIAS programme benefits from national funding via France 2030.