Call for application for 2nd year and above PhD students from France and the Visegrád countries
Deadline for submission: March 16, 2026 Duration: September 1, 2026–August 31, 2027
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.
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 2026 Duration: 1 September 2026 – 31 August 2027
Within its Platform partnership agreement, 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.
The French Government and Slovak Academy of Sciences joint mobility grant for young researchers in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2026
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 research mobility fellowships in the field of humanities and social sciences in France during the year 2026. 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 trip in France. Consequently, applications will be submitted individually by young researchers.
The objective 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.
Deadline for submission of applications: 16 February 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) & the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CNRS SHS) in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) offer mobility grants to Budapest (for CNRS SHS fellows) and France (for CEU IAS fellows) starting from the academic year 2025/2026.
SCHEDULES
For IAS CEU fellows → France:
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
Callopens 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→
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague
