Call for applications for 2nd year and above PhD students at the Charles University or the Czech Academy of Sciences
Deadline for submission: 16 March 2025 (call open) Duration: 1 September 2025 – 31 August 2026
In the frame of its Platform, CEFRES offers a year-long fellowship to PhD students enrolled at the Charles University and/or working as fellows at the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Fellows’ research should contribute to one of CEFRES’s research areas.
The amount of the fellowship is cca 9 000 EUR / 225 000 CZK per year.
Call for application for 2nd year and above PhD students from France and the Visegrád countries
Deadline for submission: March 16, 2025 (call open) Duration: September 1, 2025–August 31, 2026
CEFRES offers year-long fellowships at the center to 2nd year and above PhD students enrolled in universities in France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Fellows’ research should contribute to one of CEFRES’s research areas.
The amount of the fellowship is 12 000 EUR / 300 000 CZK per year.
Good command of English is mandatory, command of French is appreciated. The selected PhD fellows will join CEFRES team in Prague and actively take part in the Center’s scientific life.
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.
a French public research institution with partnerships throughout Central Europe
an international research and administrative team (12 nationalities by 2024), developing cutting edge research projects in the humanities and social sciences
twenty in-house researchers & fifty associates
about fifty events a year
some twenty funding grants.
Responsibilities and tasks
Maintaining a dynamic content calendar with the administrative team;
Administrating CEFRES’s trilingual website, ensuring it is updated with the latest information, www.cefres.cz (WordPress);
Writing and producing engaging content for CEFRES’s trilingual accounts on social media (FB, Instagram, LinkedIn, X);
Producing visual contents (website, social media, posters and programs) for scientific events
Analyzing data to gauge content performance and proposing communication strategy in accordance
Expected skills
Exceptional written Czech skills (C2), French (C1 or B2) and English (C1 or B2),
In-depth knowledge of social media and their monitoring tools
Experience in translation
Experience in updating websites using content management systems
Experience in creating visual contents – video cuts if possible
Required qualities
Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive
Exacting and precise written skills,
Esthetic visual taste,
Reliable and autonomous,
Collaborative team player with a positive attitude.
Qualification
Degree in communication management / digital marketing / languages OR equivalent experience,
Enthusiastic interest in communication and translation;
A strong curiosity toward Humanities and Social Sciences is more than welcome.
Conditions & benefits
1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
Part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 15h attendance / week preferred
Flexible working schedule apart one fixed day at CEFRES
14 days’ annual leave
Long Summer breaks with no scientific event,
Professional training offered by CEFRES according to the profile and needs of the employee
French language courses offered by CEFRES at the French Institute in Prague
An office in Prague city center, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Reduced prices of access to the cinema Kino 35 at the French Institute in Prague
How to apply
The position is to be filled on 1/2/2025 · Send your CV and motivation letter in French to: Claire.madl@cefres.cz Subject:« Candidature au poste de chargé/e de communication et de traduction »; Cc mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz.
Only selected applicants will be invited to be interviewed, in French.
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