Come to France

• For established scholars, and recent doctoral degree recipients
• Up to 2 grants awarded 
• 4-10 months in France     
• Award start period : September 2026 - May 2027                                                                                                                           

The artistic research projects concerned in the framework of this residency must be developed according to the orientations of the transversal program "Arts & Sciences: Indisciplined Knowledge" and in connection with one of the topics proposed by the program "Necessary Utopias".

As an institute of Aix-Marseille University, the Institute of Cancer and Immunology (ICI) brings together research teams, hospitals and industrialists in Marseille working in the field of cancer and immunology research. The treatment of cancers by stimulating the patient's immune defenses is currently in full development and was even the subject of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2018.

The Mucem/IMERA residency is open to artists, researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and professionals in museology and heritage.

Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques/Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) is part of Aix-Marseille University. It has been recently labeled University Research School for a project of excellence in which AMSE brings together research, teaching and valorization. The research program focuses on economic responses in a changing world.

Recommendations for submitting an application to the “Interdisciplinary Explorations” programme

1. The research project must be relevant to the intention of spending a research period at an institute of advanced studies based in Marseille.

Applications are open to scientists of all disciplines and to artists, junior or senior, who propose a research project related to one of the axes of the Interdisciplinary Explorations program.

The Germaine Tillion Chair is the result of a partnership between the South (Provence Alps-Riviera) Regional Council and the Aix-Marseille Institute for Advanced Studies (IMéRA), an Aix-Marseille University (AMU) foundation. The objective is to develop cross-disciplinary and prospective research at the highest international level on the general theme “The Mediterranean Tomorrow”: the Mediterranean world and its future.

Averroes/Ibn Rochd (in Arabic) is an Andalusian philosopher and jurist (born in Cordoba in 1168 and died in Marrakech in 1198) who undoubtedly produced the most important philosophical work of the Middle Ages. It is in particular his commentaries on Aristotle that are authoritative and that have earned him great notoriety in the Muslim, Jewish and Christian world. His Decisive Speech / Fasl al maqal, is in particular a major work which marks the place of reason in Islam and which opens the way to critical thought.