NordIAS Visiting Fellowship

The Nordic Institutes of Advanced Study have formed the network NordIAS with the aim of increasing collaborations among the institutes and affiliated fellows and staff of the Nordic IAS'es. The NordIAS Visiting Fellowship programme is intended to enhance the academic dialogue and network both for the fellows participating and for the institutes at large.

The NordIAS visiting fellowship programme is relevant for you if you see added academic value both for you as a fellow and for the receiving institute in doing a visiting fellowship for 1-3 weeks as part of your existing fellowship. Before you apply, you are required to seek out potential collaborators and/or activities of relevance at the receiving institute.

For fellows at the NordIAS member institutes

All fellows at all the eight institutes are welcome to apply for a visiting fellowship at one of the other institutes. To be eligible, you must have an active fellowship at the home institute at the time of the desired visit. It is also possible for 3–6 fellows (depending on the hosting institution) to form a group and apply for a group fellowship. Group members can come from the same or different NordIAS institutes. Some hosting institutes allow wider collaboration with local or national scholars who may be included as group members as well - please see the call in Pdf. for details about the possibilites at the different NordIAS institutes.

Period and duration of visit

The visiting fellowship can be of 1 to 3 weeks. The timeframe for the visits will be coordinated with the hosting IAS and timeslots must be proposed in the application. The Institutes have marked in the in the pdf. call which periods they accept visits.

The visiting fellowship includes

The receiving institute will provide an office space for the duration of the visit and will include the visiting fellow in all relevant academic and social activities during the visit.

Travel and accommodation

The fellow’s home institute will cover travel costs and accommodation for the duration of the visit. It is the visiting fellow’s responsibility to find adequate housing and make arrangements with their home institute of the reimbursement/ funding of the costs. The duration of the visit and type of accommodation must be cleared with your home institute.

Deliverables and outcome

It is expected that the visiting fellow participates actively in the activities at the receiving institute.

After each visit, the visiting fellow must submit a short feedback paper regarding the outcome of the visit to both the receiving and the home institute.

Assessment and application process

•  Send your application by email to Helle Villekold at helle@aias.au.dk
• Following the application deadline on 13 January 2026, the home institute decides which applicants they will support on an outgoing visiting fellowship. These applications are sent to the receiving institute.
• The receiving institute(s) will decide which applicants they will receive on a visiting fellowship (this will largely depend on the academic match, timeframe and of available space at the receiving institute).

Timeline of the application process

• 10 November 2025: Internal call announced by each institution
• 13 January 2026: Deadline for applications (submitted to home institution)
•  27 January 2026: Deadline for home institute to forward selected applicants to receiving institutes
• 10 February 2026: Deadline for receiving institutes to start dialogue with potential home institutes and incoming visiting fellows
• Timeframe for visits – see the timeslots for possible visits on the list of Institutes.

If one fellow has applied to more than one institute, and is accepted at more than one institute, it is up to individual negotiation between the fellow and the home institute to decide if more than one visit can be granted.

NordIAS member institutes - please see call for further details about the possible dates for visits at the different institutes

• Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Denmark
• Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
• Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway 
• Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), University of Helsinki, Finland 
• Tampere Institute for Advanced Study (Tampere IAS), Tampere University, Finland 
• Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), University of Turku, Finland  
• The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies (Pufendorf IAS), Lund University, Sweden 
• Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden 

About AIAS

As an 'Institute for Advanced Study,' AIAS brings researchers together across disciplines, seniority and nationality. AIAS offers fellowships for excellent researchers from all academic disciplines to pursue cutting-edge research projects for the benefit of society and humankind in optimal research conditions.

The daily encounter with colleagues from diverse research disciplines at AIAS provides fellows with fresh and different insights, methods and perspectives on their own research, leading to new and unexpected research questions and ideas.