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CEFRES PhD grants 2025 | Results

France & Visegrád PhD mobility grants
  1. KOZIIENKO Ruslana, CEU: The Effects and Affects of the (Im)mobility of Men During Russia’s Full-Scale War against Ukraine

  2. FROMONT Garance, Université Paris-Cité: Too Loud a Freedom: Emergence of a Cinematographic New Wave in Communist Czechoslovakia (1956-1968)

Waiting list (gives the right to become associate)

3. SCAGLIUSI Domenico, Sorbonne Université: The Tribunal of the Heirs: The Memory of the Gulag in contemporary Russophone Literature (2000-2022)

4. QUELVENNEC Natasza, EHESS: (Battle)fields of Gender and Democracy. Relational Sociology of the Politicization of Abortion in Poland 2015-2025

CEFRES-SAV PhD mobility grants

PAPUCNOVÁ Nina, ÚSL SAV: Nature in Modernism

CEFRES Platform PhD grants
  1. VASSILEVA Sabina, FHS UK–SÚ AVČR: Gender of Metabolism. Enacting Sexed Bodies at the Intersection of Metabolic and Sex Hormones

  2. RUMPIKOVA Michaela, FF UK: A Phenomenological Reading of the Young Gerl in First-Person Coming-of-Age Novels: Becoming Through Orientation, Objects, and Others

    Waiting list

  3. MYCHKA Katerina, FF UK-La Sapienza: Serhij Žadan’s Work in the Context of Transformative Dynamics
CEFRES-CEU mobility grants
  1. POLLAK, Markus: Evaluating Democracies. International Election Observers and the Contestation of Liberal Ordering (2 500 €)

  2. AKSONOWICZ, Adam: Towards What Homeland? (Trans)national Armies in Exile and Renegotiations of Polish and Czechoslovak National Narratives, 1939-1947 (2 000 €)

  3. RAEHME, Sophie: Intersectional & Gendered Subjects of Transitional Justice and the Right to Reparation. A Case Study on the Negotiation and Recognition of Gendered Victimhood in Colombia since 1997 (500 €)

CEFRES-FiF UK mobility grants
  1. VAŠÍČEK, Andrej: Cultural and Historical Memory of the Landscape in Hungary in the 18th Century (3 000 €)

 2. DROBNÁ, Dominika: Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800 (2 000 €)

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

CFA – TANDEM Program, CNRS / AV ČR 2026–2027

The French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) in Prague, the French National Research Center (CNRS), the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Charles University (UK) are launching the fifth call for applications for the TANDEM incubator program of the CEFRES Platform.
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 European Research Area.

The aim of the program is to associate two researchers, one from the CAS and one from CNRS or affiliated to CNRS (i.e. member of an UMR) around a joint research project leading to foster joint Czech-French scientific collaboration through the submission of a project proposal: Continue reading CFA – TANDEM Program, CNRS / AV ČR 2026–2027

CFA – SAV PhD students mobility grants at CEFRES

Call for applications for PhD students enrolled at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV)

Deadline for submission:  March 16, 2025
Duration:  9 months between September 1, 2025 & May 31, 2026

The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the French Institute in Slovakia (IFS) & CEFRES offer mobility grants at the CEFRES to PhD students enrolled the SAV. Continue reading CFA – SAV PhD students mobility grants at CEFRES

CFA – CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships

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.

Good command of English is mandatory, command of French is appreciated. The selected PhD fellows will join CEFRES team and take part in the Center’s scientific life. Continue reading CFA – CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships