Come to France

Please note that this scheme is now closed. 

For established researchers to develop new knowledge, skills and ideas in one or more research centres outside the UK

The scheme may be used for: 

• developing new lines of research through overseas collaboration
• making ‘discipline-hopping excursions’ into new areas of research
• developing innovations in teaching
• preparing for collaborative grant applications
• observing and sharing ground-breaking techniques or practices 

Value

The Walter Benjamin Programme enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice.

The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project.

Annually, the Canon Foundation in Europe grants up to 15 Fellowships to highly qualified European and Japanese researchers. European Fellows are expected to pursue a period of research in Japan whereas Japanese Fellows are expected to do their research in Europe. 

Canon Foundation Fellowships are for a minimum period of three months up to maximum of one year. 

We support all fields of research. There are no limitations or restrictions. Applicants do not have to be currently enrolled or employed at the time of applying. 

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.

Increase your research experience by making a stay abroad!

Submission deadline: 05.08.2025 and 03.02.2026 17:00:00h (Swiss local time)

The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 10 percent in 2027 and 11 percent in 2028. As a result, the SNSF will approve fewer applications for the Postdoc.Mobility funding scheme in 2026, 2027 and 2028 than before. We very much regret this. You can find more information on the cost-cutting measures here:

• 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.