The College for Life Sciences is a junior program of the Wiko. It offers excellent early career researchers in the life/natural sciences, medicine, and psychology an opportunity to take a break from the lab and clinic. Fellows will gain time to think and develop their own projects and immerse themselves in the intellectually and culturally diverse environment of the Wissenschaftskolleg. Each year the Wissenschaftskolleg welcomes around 40 internationally recognized senior as well as promising junior scholars from all fields of knowledge, including the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts.
Our goal is to promote a kind of science that transcends disciplinary boundaries and goes beyond established issues and approaches. As we do not provide lab space, it is not “just another fellowship”, but the opportunity to step back from your lab routines and reflect on your institutional and intellectual “settings”. Through the College for Life Sciences we promote scientists at the beginning of their career, i.e., postdocs, junior group leaders, lecturers, and assistant, associate, and junior professors.

The fellowships are intended for residencies of 3 to 5 months during the academic year 2026/27, from September 2026 to July 2027.

Starting in the academic year 2026/2027, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study) will offer several 10-month fellowships for outstanding early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Successful applicants will become members of a lively intellectual community of approximately forty fellows from all over the world, representing disciplines in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences as well as the arts. The Institute offers excellent support for fellows’ research, as well as help to both fellows and their families in settling in to Berlin life. Further information about the Institute and its facilities may be found here.

APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

Applicants should possess a doctorate granted no more than five years before the fellowship begins. Selection will be based on the applicant’s academic qualifications, including publications commensurate with the applicant’s discipline and career stage, and a research project that the applicant intends to pursue during the fellowship. Applications from early career scholars from all nations and all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities are welcome. Although scholarly communication at the Institute takes place in English and all fellows are expected to be able to discuss their own work and that of others in that language, applications may also be submitted in German and French. The deadline for applications for the 2026-7 academic year is 1 September 2025; applicants will be notified by 1 December 2025. Further information on the application procedure may be found here.

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) is pleased to announce up to 10 AIAS-AUFF Fellowships open for application by curiosity-driven, talented researchers from all over the world and within all research disciplines. Fellowships start on 1 September 2026, and last for 23 months for researchers with 2 to10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.

The call is open to curiosity-driven researchers and welcomes applications from researchers:

• who have a career experience of 2-10 years after completion of their PhD by the deadline of the call
• from all research disciplines of any nationality
• who comply with a mobility demand as applicants must not have resided or carried out their main work activity in Denmark for more than 12 months in the two years immediately prior to the deadline of the call.
• who have an interdisciplinary research project and/or interest
• who have/see relevant collaboration possibilities at Aarhus University

AIAS and Aarhus University strive to create a multidisciplinary, inclusive academic environment and to be an inspiring workplace for all by fostering a culture in which the individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

The fellowships include a full salary based on seniority, with employment conditions and wages regulated through the Danish Collective Union agreements. The fellowship covers travel costs to Aarhus and offers relo-cation assistance. Fellows will have office space at AIAS and can participate in academic training activities, conferences and workshops at AIAS. Fellows will also be affiliated with the relevant research environments at Aarhus University.

• Opening of call: 26 August 2025.
• Deadline for applications: 28 October 2025 at 12.00 (noon) CET.
• Evaluation and selection period: November 2025 - February 2026.
• Applicants will receive answers: March 2026.
• Fellowships begin: 1 September 2026.

For 2026-27 academic year, Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix Marseille Université, is opening six residency places for academic researchers, each lasting 5 or 10 months. Of these, the Fulbright / Iméra Chair in Migration Studies and the Friche La Belle de Mai / Iméra residency are the subject of separate calls, which will close in the second half of September 2025. All these residencies are divided into four programmes (“Arts & sciences: undisciplined knowledge”, “Interdisciplinary explorations”, “Mediterranean” and “Necessary utopias”).

• 1 or 2 grants to be awarded
• For established scholars
• Residency duration: 5 or 10 months
• Possibilities : from September 2026 to June 2027 / from September 2026 to January 2027 / from February to June 2027.

Citizenship/Residence

Candidates residing in the country of the Chair at the time of application or subsequently are not eligible. Permanent residents of the country of the Chair are not eligible.

Invitation

Optional: A letter of invitation from a researcher or teacher-researcher from the Aix-Marseille site and/or a letter of recommendation from a university researcher or an artist recognised in his or her field, in connection with the field in which the project falls.

Language proficiency

English is sufficient. However, the feasibility of carrying out the project must be demonstrated in the project declaration.

French language skills are desirable because of Iméra’s bilingual environment: for example, weekly seminars are held in French and English. Laureates who are not fluent in French are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the language during their stay, if not before.

Further information

Applicants must be affiliated to a higher education institution.

Iméra is the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix Marseille Université, the largest French-speaking university in the world. Iméra welcomes researchers from all over the world involved in interdisciplinary research projects for short stays.

Recipients should expect to participate in weekly meetings with other resident researchers to strengthen Iméra’s scientific community.

CAT will provide teams of early-career researchers (three to five persons) time and space for thought and discussion in the best research environments Europe has to offer. The groups may include one representative of a stakeholder organization related to the theme of the project. During a period of up to three years, teams will benefit from a series of short stays (i.e. between one and two weeks, two to three times a year, for a maximum of six stays) in institutes participating in the program (see list below). Online meetings and digital research stays at the institutes are possible alternatives to onsite stays and can complete the work and time plan of CAT groups.

CAT will cover travel and accommodation expenses for the team meetings/short work stays in the participating institutes. CAT will not fund salaries or research-related expenses.

The participating institutes will support the teams by connecting them with the most knowledgeable and experienced researchers onsite as well as digitally, and by helping them valorise the obtained results through their legitimating channels. During their stay, CAT teams will benefit from the institutes’ amenities and conviviality for work and exchanges. Discussions at the institutes will provide a unique sounding board for innovative ideas and will give valuable feedback.

The project must address emergent societal issues.

• The Principal Investigator (team leader) must have a stable research position in a European (EU as well as UK and associated countries) higher education and/or research institution for the entire duration of the project.
• S/he must have obtained a PhD between January 2016 and September 2025.         
• No team member should have obtained his/her PhD before January 2016. Doctoral researchers may also participate.
• The eligibility can be extended beyond 10 years after the PhD for any member of the group for certain properly documented circumstances such as maternity and paternity leaves, clinical training, long-term illness, national service, natural disaster or seeking asylum.
• There is no specific diploma or age requirement for representatives of stakeholder organizations.
• Each team should include participants from at least two different countries (current workplace, including non-European countries; any nationality).
• The team of 3 to 5 persons (stakeholders included) must be fully constituted, with CVs of all members named in the proposal.

IAS CEU offers annually one Writer in Residence fellowship and one Visual/New Media Artist in Residence fellowship to provide selected artists with opportunities to conceptualize and create new works while providing the fellow community with opportunities for meaningful interaction with artists working in various fields. These two residential fellowships (up to 5 months each with a minimum stay of 3 months) are offered on a competitive basis to internationally established as well as emerging artists, in creative writing (from poetry and prose to drama, screen and playwriting) and in the visual arts, including new media art (from painting to filming and from digital art to computer graphics to interactive art). 

We seek artists who will be able to work independently, have a solid plan of work for their fellowship period and are ready to engage with the intellectual life at the Institute and the university. Artists in residence are expected to participate in the academic life of the community of IAS Fellows, which includes participation in the weekly Fellows’ seminar and a presentation of their own artistic or literary work. 

To be in residence at IAS CEU means to work and participate in an academic community, to receive technical and artistic assistance and to be immersed in a vibrant city's cultural life. While in residence, artists benefit from an intense production time enhanced by the exchange of ideas and experiences with fellows of the Institute. The Institute views art and scholarship as complementary rather than separate activities, which interact dynamically and encourage mutual productivity. 

IAS CEU is an independent Institute for Advanced Study based at the Budapest site of Central European University. CEU operates at two locations, with the main campus in Vienna and several research institutes and centers in Budapest. Located in the heart of one of Central Europe's most attractive cities, IAS CEU seeks to benefit from this arrangement and to be part of the rich academic life and research generated in both places. The Budapest site hosts, besides the IAS, a part of the CEU Library, the Blinken OSA Archivum, the Democracy Institute (DI), the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, and the Summer University (SUN), as well as various research units and non-degree education programs. For further information, please refer to the Institute's website at https://ias.ceu.edu. 

As CEU is in the process of transformation, our fellowship programs are meant to contribute to the formation of a Global Invisible University framework as an innovative new format coordinated by CEU’s Budapest site. This framework builds on the Global Forum organized by the Democracy Institute, as well as CEU’s engagement with different groups of scholars and students at risk (including the Invisible University for Ukraine and various Southeast European and Southeast Asian academic networks among others). It seeks to rethink the relationship of research, education, and civic engagement in a transnational manner and reinforce CEU’s links to individuals and institutions defending academic freedom and seeking to develop innovative strategies in autocratic contexts. For the Artist in Residence Fellowship, we are particularly interested in applications that bring together the question of the freedom of artistic expression and its political, aesthetic, and material implications with the broader theme described above.

A net allowance of EUR 2,000 per month + accommodation at the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse and/or office space at IAS CEU premises as available, either of which may serve as a studio, limited equipment and technical support from the CEU Media Hub (located in Vienna). We encourage all applicants for the visual artist fellowship to inquire about existing facilities and technology available. Awarded fellows are responsible for their own travel arrangements and health insurance. Fellowships may start in October 2026. Fellows are required to be in continuous residence for the duration of the fellowship.

All applications must be submitted through our online application system: Prepare your application package: create one pdf file no larger than 12 MBs containing all your application documents. The name of the pdf file should contain your last name, first name and the type of fellowship you are applying for in the following format: Doe, Jane_ AIR_Writer.pdf OR Doe, John_ AIR_Visual-Media_Artist.pdf 

Your application package should contain the following documents:

• Cover letter indicating how the fellowship is beneficial for the artistic project with a paragraph engaging with the questions of the entanglement of artistic and academic freedom and its implications in education and the civil sphere (max. 1,000 words)
• Abstract of the project (max. 200 words)
• For visual/media/new media artists: Project plan which describes a concrete project that can be developed while in residence, identifying any technical support needed (max. 1,500 words, not counting references; possible additional video material)
• For writers: Work plan while in residence (max. 1,500 words, not counting references)

• CV (max. 5 pages), including a list of published works and/or portfolio (the selection committee might request samples at a later stage)

  Successful candidates will be informed in mid-March 2026.

Enquiries should be sent to IAS_art_applicationsceu [dot] edu (IAS_art_applications[at]ceu[dot]edu)

Candidates meeting these 5 conditions are eligible:

• The selected candidate must have the administrative and consular capacity to travel to the six countries concerned (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and France).
• Proven scientific excellence in one of the areas of research related to creative hubs, third places, hybrid spaces, their narratives and functions.
• Not have been resident in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years preceding the call for applications
• Hold a doctorate or Ph.D. or have 6 years’ research experience after obtaining a Master’s degree
• The candidate must have the legal status to enter into a contract for the provision of a service.
• Language skills: English, French (full professional written skills and full oral comprehension) and literary Arabic (spoken) or, failing that, dialectal Arabic spoken in one of the project countries.

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS CEU) together with the Democracy Institute (DI) and the Blinken OSA Archivum (OSA) at the Budapest site of CEU are pleased to announce their joint call for applications for its thematic fellowship program Modalities of Resilience and Resistance: Academia and Society in Illiberal Times for the academic year 2026/27. 

The three Budapest-based units of CEU invite applications for their joint fellowship call. In various capacities, the Democracy Institute, the Blinken OSA Archivum and the Institute for Advanced Study are engaged in research, teaching and public program series focusing on the cultural, political, social, legal, economic, aesthetic and epistemic problems posed by the rise of autocratic governments and regimes in the last two decades worldwide. These regimes use new techniques of mobilization and undermine traditional conceptions of truth, verification, and falsification; they merge populist, neoliberal, religious fundamentalist, biopolitical and other ideological components into a new mix that subverts the liberal democratic institutional system. 

The present call focuses on analyzing the morphology of these tendencies and regimes, as well as on the ways of defying and resisting them. We seek to pay special attention to the transnational entanglements of these regimes and ideologies as well as of those who contest them. Our aim is to pursue this in a multidisciplinary manner, creating new synergies between different fields and methodological traditions. We seek to involve in this dialogue scholars at risk from different contexts whose work is also shaped by their own lived experience. We thus seek to reflect together on the entanglement of research, teaching, and civic engagement in an autocratic context. Our fellowship program is also meant as a pilot project for the Global Invisible University framework in the making as an innovative new format coordinated by CEU’s Budapest site. This project builds on the Global Forum organized by the Democracy Institute, as well as CEU’s engagement with different groups of scholars and students at risk (including the Invisible University for Ukraine and various Southeast European and Southeast Asian academic networks among others). 

Along these lines, this thematic call is addressed to scholars, artists and media professionals from all disciplines and fields who are interested in exploring the ways in which these autocratic regimes and movements are contested, resisted, and critically analyzed and how we can learn from each other while seeking to preserve academic freedom in the context of increasingly interconnected illiberal projects. The call has no regional preference. 

Fellowships are available in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities, broadly defined and for artists of all fields of practice who can link their artistic work to these questions. Fellowships run for the full 9-month period (OctoberJune), for the 3-month short fall semester (October-December), the 5-month fall semester (October-February) or the 6-month spring semester (January-June). 

Fellows are chosen through a rigorous selection process, which includes stages of pre-selection and peer reviews as well as a final decision made by an independent, interdisciplinary, and international selection committee. The Institute and her partners are committed to the pursuit of cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and will seek innovative research proposals. Young scholars with demonstrable promise of excellence will be considered; established senior scholars are expected to have solid records of first-rate scholarship. Scholars at risk are especially encouraged to apply. A primary criterion for selection is the expectation that each fellow’s stay at the Institute will yield original and significant research results in conversation with other fellows working on the broad topic of Modalities of Resilience and Resistance, and how these research results can also be redeployed in the educational process and in the civil sphere. 

IAS CEU is an independent Institute for Advanced Study based at the Budapest site of Central European University. CEU operates at two locations, with the main campus in Vienna and several research institutes and centers in Budapest. Located in the heart of one of Central Europe's most attractive cities, IAS CEU seeks to benefit from this arrangement and to be part of the rich academic life and research generated in both places. The Budapest site hosts, besides the IAS, a part of the CEU Library, the Blinken OSA Archivum, the Democracy Institute, the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, and the Summer University (SUN), as well as various research units and non-degree education programs. For further information, please refer to the Institute's website at https://ias.ceu.edu. 

The Budapest site provides a stimulating environment in which fellows can devote themselves to research and share their work with peers both at the Institute and the other units of the University in Budapest and Vienna, through weekly seminars and other community programs. Fellows have access to all CEU facilities, including seminar and conference space, computer services, and library resources. They benefit from CEU’s vibrant international atmosphere, its strong regional ties in Central and Eastern Europe, and its international scholarly networks. CEU facilitates the fellows’ engagement with CEU and with Hungarian and Austrian, regional and international scholarly communities by encouraging collaborative projects, organizing joint public lectures and related activities. 

Fellows of this program receive a monthly stipend and accommodation in the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse, located in the Castle district. Fellows are expected to reside in Budapest during their fellowship year, participate in the intellectual life of the Institute, and pursue their research agenda.

Senior Fellows receive a net monthly stipend of 2,600 Euros, Junior Fellows receive a net monthly stipend of 1,500 Euros, and Artists in Residence 2,000 Euros to help support their stay in Budapest. In addition, all fellows and their families receive housing at the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse. Utilities at the Guesthouse will be charged to the Fellows. Fellows are also responsible for their own travel and health care provisions.

All applications must be submitted through our online application system:

Prepare your application package: create a single pdf file no larger than 12 MBs containing all your application documents. The name of the pdf file should contain your name and the type of fellowship you are applying to. Examples: Smith, Evelyn_BOSF_Junior OR Taylor, Judith_BOSF_Senior OR Rodriguez, Jose_BOSF_Artist.pdf 

Application packages submitted by junior/senior scholars should contain the following documents (only applications complying with the requested format and word counts will be considered for review):

• A letter of intent (max 1000 words)
• The abstract of your research project (max. 150 words)
• A description of your research project (min. 1000 - max. 2500 words; the reference list is not included in the word count)
• A description of the applicant’s ideas on linking research, teaching, and civic engagement in the context of the rise of illiberalism (max. 1500 words)
• A CV (max. 5 pages)
• References: for junior applicants ONLY: please include the name and email address of two referees (for potential reference).

Application packages submitted by artists should contain the following:

• Cover letter indicating how the fellowship is beneficial for the artistic project (max. 1000 words)
• Abstract of the project (max. 200 words)
• Project plan which describes a concrete project that can be developed while in residence, identifying any technical support needed (max. 1500 words, not counting references; possible additional video material)
• A description of the applicant’s ideas on linking research, teaching, and civic engagement in the context of the rise of illiberalism (max 1500 words)
• CV (max. 5 pages), including a list of published works and/or portfolio (the selection committee might request samples at a later stage)

Questions and comments may be sent to IAS_applicationsceu [dot] hu (IAS_applications[at]ceu[dot]hu)

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) and the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest (IAS CEU) are pleased to invite applications for a short-term Research Fellowship in Central European Histories and Societies for Fall 2025. 

Fellowships are available for all scholarly work related to the past or present of Mitteleuropa (former Habsburg lands and adjacent territories) and linked to the doctoral dissertation research carried out by the Applicant. There are no disciplinary constraints; however, preference will be given to research proposals with a transnational or comparative aspect. 

At IAS CEU, Fellows will join outstanding junior and senior scholars from around the world, each conducting research related to their diverse disciplinary interests. IAS CEU in Budapest provides a stimulating environment in which fellows can devote themselves to their research and share their work with peers through weekly seminars and other community programs. Fellows have access to all CEU facilities, including seminar and conference space, computer services, and library resources; accommodation is also provided as part of the fellowship at the CEU Residence Center in Budapest.

All applications must be submitted through the following online application form (accessible only to CEU account users): https://forms.office.com/e/XcJ0bFQgUC 

Prepare your application package: create a single pdf file no larger than 10 MBs containing all your application documents (itemized below). The name of the pdf file should contain your name and the type of fellowship you are applying for: Doe, Jane_Botstiber-IAS_Application.pdf. 

Your application package should contain the following documents:

• A letter of intent (max 1,000 words) – please make sure to discuss the type of research (archival, oral history, library, etc.) and/or the consultative work (with scholars at the IAS, the Democracy Institute or the Open Society Archive) you are planning to carry out during the fellowship period;
• The abstract of the research project (max. 150 words);
• A description of the research project (min. 1,000 - max. 2,000 words; the reference list is not included in the word count);
• Copy of your most recent transcript;
• Letter of confirmation of eligibility from the director of your PhD program (copy of email message will suffice).

Applicants will be notified of the result of the evaluation process by the end of September, 2025.

for more information on the BIAAS, please visit: http://www.botstiberbiaas.org/

Questions and comments may be sent to IAS_applicationsceu [dot] edu (IAS_applications[at]ceu[dot]edu)

The Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (IAS CEU) is pleased to invite applications for Affiliated Fellowships for the academic year 2026/27. Scholars from all research areas of the social sciences and humanities, broadly defined, may apply for this status. Affiliated fellows typically use their own funding or external fellowships to spend their research period, or parts thereof, at IAS CEU. The stay of Affiliated fellows varies between a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 months; fellowships run for the 3-month short fall semester (October-December), the 5-month fall semester (October-February) or the 6-month spring semester (January-June). 

IAS CEU is an independent Institute for Advanced Study based at the Budapest site of Central European University. CEU operates at two locations, with the main campus in Vienna and several research institutes and centers in Budapest. Located in the heart of one of Central Europe's most attractive cities, IAS CEU seeks to benefit from this arrangement and to be part of the rich academic life and research generated in both places. The Budapest site hosts, besides the IAS, a part of the CEU Library, the Blinken OSA Archivum, the Democracy Institute, the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, and the Summer University (SUN), as well as various research units and non-degree education programs. For further information, please refer to the Institute's website at https://ias.ceu.edu. 

The Budapest site provides a stimulating environment in which fellows can devote themselves to research and share their work with peers through weekly seminars and other community programs. Fellows have access to all CEU facilities, including seminar and conference space, computer services and library resources. They benefit from CEU’s vibrant international atmosphere, its strong regional ties in Central and Eastern Europe and its international scholarly networks. CEU facilitates the fellows’ engagement with CEU and with the Hungarian and Austrian, the regional and international scholarly communities by encouraging collaborative projects, organizing joint public lectures and related activities.

In accordance with all fellowships at IAS, Affiliated Fellows are expected to be in residence in Budapest during their affiliation with the Institute, participate in the intellectual life of the Institute and pursue their research agenda. As CEU is in the process of transformation, our fellowship programs are meant to contribute to the formation of a Global Invisible University framework as an innovative new format coordinated by CEU’s Budapest site. This framework builds on the Global Forum organized by the Democracy Institute, as well as CEU’s engagement with different groups of scholars and students at risk (including the Invisible University for Ukraine and various Southeast European and Southeast Asian academic networks among others). It seeks to rethink the relationship of research, education, and civic engagement in a transnational manner and reinforce CEU’s links to individuals and institutions defending academic freedom and seeking to develop innovative strategies in autocratic contexts.

Affiliated fellows do not receive a stipend and may or may not receive housing from the Institute. They may receive office space based on availability. Fellows are responsible for their own travel and health care provisions.

For additional questions, please send a email to IAS_applicationsceu [dot] edu (IAS_applications[at]ceu[dot]edu)

The Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (IAS CEU) is pleased to invite applications for its Junior and Senior Core Fellowship program for the academic year 2026/27. Fellowships are available in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities, broadly defined.  Fellowships run for the full 9-month period (October-June), for the 3-month short fall semester (October-December), the 5month fall semester (October-February) or the 6-month spring semester (JanuaryJune).  

Each year, IAS CEU selects some twenty fellows for its fellowship programs. Fellows are chosen through a rigorous selection process, which includes stages of pre-selection and peer reviews as well as a final decision made by an independent, interdisciplinary, and international Selection Committee. The Institute is committed to the pursuit of cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and will seek innovative research proposals. Young scholars with demonstrable promise of excellence will be considered; established senior scholars are expected to have solid records of first-rate scholarship. All disciplines within this remit are welcome. A primary criterion for selection is the expectation that each fellow’s stay at the Institute will yield original and significant research results.  

As CEU is in the process of transformation, our fellowship programs are meant to contribute to the formation of a Global Invisible University framework as an innovative new format coordinated by CEU’s Budapest site. This framework builds on the Global Forum organized by the CEU Democracy Institute,  as well as CEU’s engagement with different groups of scholars and students at risk (including the Invisible University for Ukraine and various Southeast European and Southeast Asian academic networks among others). It seeks to rethink the relationship of research, education, and civic engagement in a transnational manner and reinforce CEU’s links to individuals and institutions defending academic freedom and seeking to develop innovative strategies in autorcratic contexts.   IAS CEU is an independent Institute for Advanced Study based at the Budapest site of Central European University. CEU operates at two locations, with the main campus in Vienna and several research institutes and centers in Budapest. Located in the heart of one of Central Europe's most attractive cities, IAS CEU seeks to benefit from this arrangement and to be part of the rich academic life and research generated in both places. The Budapest site hosts, besides the IAS, a part of the CEU Library, the Blinken OSA Archivum, the Democracy Institute, the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, and the Summer University (SUN), as well as various research units and non-degree education programs. For further information, please refer to the Institute's website at https://ias.ceu.edu. 

The Institute and the Budapest site provide a stimulating environment in which fellows can devote themselves to research and writing, and share their work with peers through weekly seminars and other community activities. Fellows have access to all CEU facilities, including seminar and conference space, computer services, and library resources. They benefit from CEU’s  international atmosphere, its strong regional ties in Central and Eastern Europe, and its international scholarly networks. CEU facilitates the fellows’ engagement with the university of CEU, Vienna and with Hungarian and Austrian, regional and international scholarly communities by encouraging collaborative projects, organizing joint public lectures and related activities. Scholars at IAS CEU receive a monthly stipend and accommodation in the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse, located in the Castle district and in close proximity to CEU’s Budapest site. Fellows are expected to reside in Budapest during their fellowship, participate in the intellectual life of the Institute, and pursue their research agenda. 

Senior fellows receive a net monthly stipend of 2,600 Euros and junior fellows receive a net monthly stipend of 1,500 Euros to help support their stay in Budapest. In addition, all fellows and their families receive housing at the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse. Utilities at the Guesthouse will be charged to the Fellows. Fellows are also responsible for their own travel and health care provisions. 

The deadline for application is 20 September 2025.   All applications must be submitted through our online application system. This year’s application form will be open starting from 10 July 2025. Step 1: Prepare your application package: create a single pdf file no larger than 12 MBs containing all your application documents. The name of the pdf file should contain your name and the type of fellowship you are applying to. Example:  Doe, Jane_Senior Core.pdf   OR  Doe, John_Junior Core.pdf 

Your application package should contain the following documents. Only applications using the requested format and word counts will be considered for review: 1. A letter of intent, including a paragraph on how the applicant sees the problems of academic freedom, scholars at risk, and transnational cooperation in the face of global autocratic threats against higher education and research institutions (max 1,500 words)  2. The abstract of your research project (max. 150 words) 3. A description of your research project (min. 1,000 - max. 2,500 words; the reference list is not included in the word count) 4. A CV (max. 5 pages) 5. A list of your most important publications, including up to 5 items for junior applicants and up to 15 items for senior applicants (please do not include full text articles!) 6. References: for junior applicants ONLY: the name and email address of two referees (for potential reference). 

Please also note that if you wish to apply to IAS for more than one fellowship type, you should fill in and send a separate application for each (choosing the relevant category each time in “Fellowship type”). 

Successful candidates will be informed between late February 2026. All others will be notified of the result of the evaluation process by the end of April 2026 the latest.

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies was established in 2001 as an independent institute of the University of Helsinki to enhance scholarly excellence in the humanities and social sciences, promote interaction between different fields of academic research, and to further international academic cooperation. The Collegium’s fellowships are open to researchers in the humanities, social sciences, educational sciences, theology, and law, and to researchers in other fields focusing on topics related to the human sciences. The applicant’s doctoral degree must have been conferred by the application deadline.

The Collegium appoints fellows at various stages in their academic careers and from different disciplines, but has no fixed quotas for seniority, discipline, nationality or gender. The Collegium is committed to promoting equality and preventing discrimination.

Applications must be prepared in accordance with the specified instructions (see link above). Successful applicants should provide evidence of their ability to work in an international, interdisciplinary research environment and of their ability to publish at a high international level. In the application documents, applicants must also indicate how they plan to participate in the interdisciplinary cooperation central for the Collegium as an institute of advanced study. Relevant evidence may be provided by reference to publications, academic activities or participation in research projects or posts at research institutes, or in the research proposal itself. Planned or existing cooperation with researchers of the University of Helsinki may be explained in the letter of motivation, in which the applicants are asked to explain why the University of Helsinki is a suitable environment for their research.

The Collegium does not consider research plans that propose to rewrite the applicant’s PhD thesis as a book. The Collegium will not grant two consecutive funding periods to one researcher. If an applicant has been at the Collegium before, at least five years must have passed after the previous fellowship term, and the applicant must justify why they ought to be accepted for another funding period.

The Core Fellowship Program is the basis of all HCAS activities and the majority of our fellows are appointed through it. You may find the key information on the core fellowship below. In 2025, the application period begins on 21 August and closes on 11 September. 

The Kone Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in the arts aims to develop new forms of cooperation and dialogue between art and scholarship. The positions are primarily intended for persons holding a doctoral degree in the arts. However, also persons engaged in artistic work but having completed a doctoral degree in a different academic field are eligible to apply.

There is an annual call for applications for the position of the postdoctoral researcher in the arts. The 2026 call opens on 21 August 2025 and closes on 11 September 2025 (at 23:59 local Helsinki time). You may find the instructions for applicants and the link to the electronic application form below.

The selection process is based on a high-level international competition. Applicants are advised to prepare their applications with care and in accordance with the guidelines explained below. Postdoctoral researchers in the arts will be based at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. The positions are primarily intended for persons holding a doctoral degree in the arts. However, also persons engaged in artistic work but having completed a doctoral degree in a different academic field are eligible to apply. Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree by the end of the application period. In addition to the doctoral degree, the requirements for the position include experience of artistic work or artistic research. Applicants for the position must demonstrate ability to produce high-quality artistic work at an internationally significant level. They should also explain why working in an academic community will enhance their proposed project. Should the applicant already have connections to a Finnish university in the field of the arts or to a department or discipline at the University of Helsinki, they are advised to mention this in their application.

Practitioners of all fields of art may apply for the position. The Collegium does not have nationality or gender quotas but, in accordance to the policy of the University of Helsinki, it is committed to promoting equality and preventing discrimination in its operations. Successful applications should propose a research project that brings together academic research and the arts and holds a promise of internationally significant results. Both artistic and academic publications and productions count as such results. The research proposal should include a publishing plan for the results of the project, which may include, for example, artistic events, exhibitions, or academic publications. The applicants must describe in their applications what kinds of facilities and equipment their project requires. The postdoctoral researchers in the arts must be committed to working at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. They are expected to be present 80% of their annual workload of 1,612 hours and to participate actively in the activities of the Collegium, most importantly the weekly Fellows' Seminars. They are also encouraged to organize, for instance, an artistic event or seminar during the research period. As no more than 20% of the research period may be spent working abroad, long trips should be arranged outside the academic year of the University. No leaves of absence will be granted for other duties. All research appointments will begin in August and may not be postponed. The postdoctoral researchers in the arts must submit a final report at the end of their term at the Collegium. Appointments may not be extended. Only individual researchers, not research groups, are eligible to apply to the Collegium.

The postdoctoral fellowship in the arts programme is funded by the Kone Foundation.   

HCAS invites applications for fixed-term appointments to begin in August 2026. We are looking for 10–15 Core Fellows representing the career stages of early career (post-doctoral researchers), mid-career (university researchers) and full professors (visiting professors). Professorial fellows are appointed for a term of six to twelve months, university researchers for one to two years, and post-doctoral researchers for one to three years, beginning in fall 2026. The Fall 2025 application period begins on 21 August 2025 and ends on 11 September 2025 at 23:59 local Helsinki time.

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies was established in 2001 as an independent institute of the University of Helsinki to enhance scholarly excellence in the humanities and social sciences, promote interaction between different fields of academic research, and to further international academic cooperation. The Collegium’s fellowships are open to researchers in the humanities, social sciences, educational sciences, theology, and law, and to researchers in other fields focusing on topics related to the human sciences. The applicant’s doctoral degree must have been conferred by the application deadline.

The Collegium appoints fellows at various stages in their academic careers and from different disciplines, but has no fixed quotas for seniority, discipline, nationality or gender. The Collegium is committed to promoting equality and preventing discrimination.

Applications must be prepared in accordance with the specified instructions (see link above). Successful applicants should provide evidence of their ability to work in an international, interdisciplinary research environment and of their ability to publish at a high international level. In the application documents, applicants must also indicate how they plan to participate in the interdisciplinary cooperation central for the Collegium as an institute of advanced study. Relevant evidence may be provided by reference to publications, academic activities or participation in research projects or posts at research institutes, or in the research proposal itself. Planned or existing cooperation with researchers of the University of Helsinki may be explained in the letter of motivation, in which the applicants are asked to explain why the University of Helsinki is a suitable environment for their research.

The Collegium does not consider research plans that propose to rewrite the applicant’s PhD thesis as a book. The Collegium will not grant two consecutive funding periods to one researcher. If an applicant has been at the Collegium before, at least five years must have passed after the previous fellowship term, and the applicant must justify why they ought to be accepted for another funding period.

The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg awards Regular Fellowships to exceptionally qualified and experienced researchers of all career levels beyond the post-doc phase (Ph.D. completed more than five years before the application).

Applications may be entered for all academic disciplines and from all parts of the world except Northwest Germany. Applicants intending to do experimental or laboratory work are welcome but should enclose confirmation of access to research infrastructure at a nearby academic institution.

Fellowships may last three to ten months; applications for fellowships starting in 2025 or 2026 are now invited. Residency at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg throughout the entire fellowship is mandatory, accommodation on the premises will be provided at no cost. Financial conditions are individually negotiated (maximum support 5,000 EUR/month). The HWK supports researchers who wish to take up a fellowship while staying with child(ren), spouse, or partner.