Background
IM茅RA聽is the Institute for Advanced Study of . As such, it is a member of R茅seau Fran莽ais des Instituts d’Etudes Avanc茅es (RFIEA) as well as of R茅seau Eurias 聽that includes the main European Institutes for Advanced Study.
IM茅RA receives researchers and artists under residence schemes of 3 to 12 months (depending on calls for applications); it also accommodates a few multi-disciplinary teams with a collective project for short duration stays. Residents work on their own research projects in connection with Aix-Marseille teams and research centres.
Research projects carried out at IM茅RA focus on cross-fertilisation within social science, within science, between social science and formal/experimental and health science, and on relationships between art and science, exploring and enhancing the potential openings between such disciplines and the new objects that may be formed there.
Opportunity
Several calls for applications for academic residencies in France, between September 2016 and July 2017. There are different calls (individuals, team, specific, general):
: The IM茅RA/LabexMed specific call is aimed at researchers (scientists) with a project in connection with the Mediterranean. LabexMed鈥檚 ambition is to make progress in cross-disciplinary, integrated research on the Mediterranean on the strength of its partner units鈥� disciplines (archaeology, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, political science, economics, law, philosophy, epistemology) and to stimulate dialogue between man and social sciences and earth, life and environment sciences at all time and space scales.
: This call is open to scientists and artists of all disciplines, both junior and senior, with or without official status.
: The IM茅RA/AMSE call for projects is open to researchers in economics, but also in the following disciplines, insofar as the project allows for interaction with the economic science: biology and medicine, law, geography, history, mathematics, neuroeconomics, philosophy, statistics, political science and sociology.
: Special BLRI residences at IM茅RA are open to researchers (senior or junior) in all disciplines and of all nationalities with a regular status in foreign institutions, and carrying out projects on the theme 鈥淟anguage and Brain鈥�.
: The call is open to junior and senior researchers and artists of all disciplines. Cross-disciplinary, international teams (3 to 6 members) for 2- to 4-weeks residence schemes
: The IM茅RA/OT-Med specific call is aimed at scientists with a project in connection with global changes and natural hazards in the Mediterranean basin and the semi-arid Sahel regions.
: M茅RA/MuCEM specific call is open to historians, geographers, heritage and museography staffs of the Mediterranean.
: The call is open to junior researchers from all countries holding a position in a foreign institution and specialized in Biomedicine, Biophysics, Bioinformatics or Health Economics . Through its mission statements as an institution in terms of theoretical and applied research in life sciences and health, Inserm aims at advancing scientific research and fostering the transfer of such knowledge to clinical applications.
Funding Available
IM茅RA will pay an allowance to researchers, who fall into two classes.
- Junior: 鈧�2,300 monthly allowance;
- Senior: 鈧�3,500 monthly allowance.
IM茅RA provides free accommodation and round transportation.
Junior class: Researchers who have 2 to 9 years of 聽full-time research experience after obtaining the PhD (PhD training is not considered in the calculation of experience) as at the closing date of the call for applications.
Senior class: Top-level researchers with minimum 10 years鈥� experience in full-time research after obtaining the PhD (PhD is not considered in the calculation of experience) as at the closing date of the call for applications, and university professors.
Full Details
- Full details regarding these programs at:
Deadlines
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- CURO has replaced the pdf CURO checklist with an online approval process through
- Applications will be submitted via the newly launched , through which Departmental and Associate Dean鈥檚 approval must be provided to complete the online application process.
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| Full application: | |
| CURO Internal Deadline for Review | November 13, 2015 |
| CURO Checklist Deadline (Mandatory) | November 26, 2015 |
| Full application submission to sponsor | November 27, 2015 |
Internal Contacts
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