Seeking University Partners for a French Postdoctoral Grant Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities

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The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) in Paris FMSH is looking for partner institutions in the U.S., Asia, and Brazil that are willing to host French postdocs or willing to send their postdocs to France.

FMSH is the largest establishment in France for hosting and providing work facilities for researchers in the social sciences and humanities from all over the world. For more than 20 years, FMSH has managed international fellowship programs for incoming and outgoing researchers at the postdoctoral level. Since last year, the Foundation has managed the CoFund European postdoctoral grant program for French researchers doing their postdoc abroad or foreign researchers willing to do their postdoc in France. The amount of the CoFund program is 5 million Euros for 4 years, partly funded by the European Commission and partly by our Foundation in partnership with other universities and foundations all over the world.

The CoFund program is an advantageous program for our partners because:

• co-funding partners may choose to finance specific subjects/fields and specific geographic mobility
• for each grant (total amount is 22,000 Euros for an average stay of 9 months) the partner's contribution has to be up to 10,000 Euros (the rest of the amount is funded by the European Commission and by our Foundation). The stipend is 2,000 Euros per month plus travel allowance and insurance
• the partner can choose the number of grants (minimum 3) it can co-fund
• co-funding partners are members of the Scientific Committee evaluating the application forms.

For more information, please visit:
www.msh-paris.fr/recherche/projets-collaboratifs/projet-europeen-braudel-ifer-fmsh/. Or contact: Angela Procoli, Partenariats & Affaires Internationales, Fondation Maison, at procoli@msh-paris.fr.