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CFA | Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026

Fellowship for CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences & IAS CEU Budapest Fellows

Initiated in 2025, the Oszkár Sárkány fellowship commemorates a Hungarian Bohemist (1912–1943), working for a new inclusive and transnational perspective on cultural history with strong ties to French developments in humanities and social sciences, who died tragically young during World War II in a punishment battalion where he was sent because of his oppositional stance to the Horthy regime.

Central European University Institute for Advances Studies (CEU IAS) & Parisian Institut d’études avancées (Paris IEA) in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants to Budapest (for IEA fellows) and Paris (for CEU IAS fellows) starting from the academic year 2025/2026.

SCHEDULES

For IAS CEU fellows → Paris:

  • July 14, 2025: Opening of the call
  • September 15, 2025, 23:59 CET: Deadline for submissions
  • September 30, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 1 month in Paris
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026

For CNRS fellows → IAS CEU Budapest:

  • July 20, 2025: Opening of the call
  • October 15, 2025: Deadline for submissions
  • October 25, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 15 days in Budapest
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026
ELIGIBILITY

At IAS CEU: all 2024/2025 & 2025/2026 fellows
At CNRS: all permanent members of CNRS SHS research units

FELLOWSHIPS

For IAS CEU fellows in Paris:

  • 1-month accommodation at the Cité Universitaire
  • Travel costs
  • Lump sum for daily expenses

For CNRS fellows in Budapest:

  • 15-day accommodation at Wallenberg Guesthouse
  • Travel costs offered by CEFRES
  • Office at IAS CEU

A joint workshop with 2025–2026 fellows & researchers from CEU, CNRS & CEFRES will be organized in Budapest in Spring 2026 around one of the themes developed by the 2025–2026 fellows.

PREFERRED RESEARCH SCOPE 2025
  • Central-Eastern Europe
  • Illiberalism, global and local
  • Scholars at risks, academic freedom & invisible university
APPLICATION PACKAGE (in English or French)
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CFA | Research Grants in Balkan Studies 2025–2026

Research grants for French-speaking doctoral students (6 months)

Le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères, le réseau des UMIFRE et le réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger (EFE – MESR) soutiennent la jeune recherche en études balkaniques en proposant des bourses de terrain d’une durée de six mois à destination de doctorant/es et jeunes docteur/es poursuivant des recherches dans ce domaine. Les boursiers et boursières seront accueilli/es dans un ou plusieurs des centres membres du réseau des UMIFRE ou EFE partenaires du programme (Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes d’Istanbul (IFEA), École française d’Athènes (EFA), Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales de Prague (CEFRES), École française de Rome (EFR). Continue reading CFA | Research Grants in Balkan Studies 2025–2026 →

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CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027

Call opens June 16, 2025
Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025
Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025
Period: January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027
Application Language: English
Address for submission:  mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)

Two postdoctoral researchers will be recruited from January 1, 2026 for two years at CEFRES. They will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for their research at Charles University (UK). The selection of both postdoctoral researchers will be based on the quality of their research project and its adequation to the research area or the research project it intends to contribute to. Continue reading CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027 →

Calls for Applications, Mobility, Visegrad > France

French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

Application deadline: July 16th, 2025 – 6:00 pm

Applications are submitted online via www.fias-fp.eu where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria and selection procedure.

Find more info here.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, FIAS offers 28 fellowship positions: 7 in Aix Marseille, 3 in Cergy, 2 in Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), 3 in Lyon, 2 in Montpellier, 4 in Nantes and 7 in Paris. Continue reading French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme →

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CFA | UMIFRE fellowships for Ukrainian researchers

UMIFRE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UKRAINIAN RESEARCHERS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2025 –Українська нижче

Call reviewed on April 22.

In collaboration with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), the French Embassy in Ukraine and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the three French overseas research institutes in Central Europe (UMIFRE) are offering a double scholarship programme for Ukrainian researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

The Eastern Europe, Caucasus and North Asia Research Institute (IRECA, Warsaw), the French Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES, Prague) and the Marc Bloch Center (CMB, Berlin) are continuing the programme initiated in 2023 at CEFRES and continued in 2024 by CEFRES and the CMB (41 non-residential scholarships and 13 residential scholarships awarded in 2023-2024).
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CFA | TANDEM CU–CNRS Program 2026–2027

Charles University (CU), the CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences (CNRS SHS) and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) are launching the second call for applications for the TANDEM incubator program dedicated to researchers from CNRS and Charles University.

Since 2018, the TANDEM program endeavors excellency in social sciences and humanities by bringing together Czech and French colleagues to intensify scientific collaboration between our countries in the frame of European Research Area. The program is a joint initiative of CEFRES, CNRS SHS, CU and the Czech Academy of Sciences (AV ČR) in the frame of the CEFRES Platform of scientific collaborations. Its former members have obtained two ERC grants, including the BOAR project. Continue reading CFA | TANDEM CU–CNRS Program 2026–2027 →