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)

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 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 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)