Iméra Core Call for Applications

For the year 2025-26, Iméra, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Aix-Marseille University is opening 9 resident fellowships ranging between 5 or 10 months, targeting academics and/or artists. The fellowships are distributed over four programs (Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge; Interdisciplinary Explorations; Mediterranean; Necessary Utopias).

Interested artists and/or academics can apply to one of the following chairs (detailed information here):

Chairs open to competition:

- A world in crisis — AMSE/Iméra Chair

- Albert Hirschman: Identity Passions between Europe and the Mediterranean - Sciences Po Aix / Iméra Chair

- Germaine Tillion - Tomorrow, the Mediterranean - Région Sud / Iméra Chair

- Language, Communication and the Brain - ILCB / Iméra Chair

- Migration Studies - Fulbright / Iméra Chair

- Mucem / Iméra residence

- Research-Creation in Oncology and Immunology - ICI / Iméra Chair

- Sustainable Development and Interdisciplinarity - IRD / Iméra Chair

- Transregional Studies - EHESS / Iméra Chair

Common Prerequisites

Prerequisites common to all available fellowships and that must be taken into account before the eligibility criteria specific to each fellowship.

• An active knowledge of French and/or English (written and spoken) is essential. Language skills in both languages are desirable, given Iméra’s bilingual context: for example, weekly seminars (see point below) are held in both languages.
• Candidates commit to participate in the activities planned with the other fellows and the scientific team of Iméra. The Community Building Seminar is in this sense one of the central activities, which takes place every week (usually on Thursday morning). The investment time equals one day per week.
• Candidates, who are former Iméra Fellows, may reapply at least 5 years after their first fellowship.

Application file

You can access the application form at the bottom of each program’s page – through a specific clickable link to apply – this must follow a thorough reading of the eligibility criteria.

The application file must be written in either French or English.

Every applicant must include in his or her application:

– A duly completed application form (mandatory fields).

– All the following files (to upload):

• Curriculum vitae including a list of publications and/or exhibitions, artistic achievements (maximum 10 pages).
• A presentation of the project (maximum 5 pages) followed by a selective bibliography (compulsory for researchers) or a list of artistic and scientific references (compulsory for artists).
• A letter of support from an Aix-Marseille University researcher or associate/assistant professor (optional)

Timeline

Deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024, at 1 PM (CET+2)

Duration of residency: 5 or 10 months between September 2025 and July 2026
o 10-month residency: from September 1, 2025 to July 3, 2026
o 5-month residency in the first semester: from September 1, 2025 to January 30, 2026
o 5-month residency in second semester: from February 9, 2026 to July 3, 2026
 

Publication of selection results: early February 2025

Residency conditions

For information about remuneration, please refer to each call (Application and residency conditions).

Accommodation

With few exceptions, residents will be housed in one of Iméra's 14 apartments, located in the Parc Longchamp, in the center of Marseille. The allocation of accommodation is the sole responsibility of Iméra, which strives to accommodate all residents to the best of its ability. To this end, when submitting the application ("type of hosting"), applicants must indicate their family configuration, which concerns only permanent presence for the entire duration of their residency (and not occasional visits). Pets are not allowed

Transportation

Iméra will pay for the single resident's return trip between Marseille and his/her usual place of residence.

Research facilities

Residents benefit from an office in an open co-working space, not an individual closed office. Iméra is unable to offer work spaces for families outside the apartment. For artists, Iméra provides a modular studio space, intended to be shared, whose walls can be fully used for various exhibitions. As detailed in the framework text for the "Arts and sciences: Indisciplined knowledge" cross-disciplinary program, Iméra does not have production facilities for artists, either for the production of works or for exhibitions. All residents benefit from the support of the Iméra team, which facilitates the conditions of their stay and the organization of their activities within the limits of available financial resources. These normally relate to the themes of their program but can also be transversal to other programs. In this context, Iméra helps residents to establish new contacts with the scientific and cultural environment of the Aix-Marseille region.

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