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)
- Letter of motivation (up to 2 pages)
- CV with a list of publications and papers
- Applications must be submitted electronically to:
- IAS CEU: Balázs Trencsényi, director, trencsenyib@ceu.edu
- Paris IEA: William Berthomière, CNRS SHS IR director, william.berthomiere@cnrs.fr
- CEFRES: Mateusz Chmurski, director, mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz
L’Europe médiane au XXe siècle. Fractures, décompositions – recompositions – surcompositions, sous la direction de Paul GRADVOHL, Prague, CEFRES, 2011, 285 p.
Minorités nationales en Europe centrale : démocratie, sciences et enjeux de représentation, vedení: Paul BAUER, Christian JACQUES, Mathieu PLÉSIAT, Máté ZOMBORY, Praha: CEFRES, 2011, 237 p.