Background
IMéRA is the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University – AMU. As such, it is a member of Réseau Français des Instituts d’Etudes Avancées (RFIEA) [French Advanced Study Institutes Network] as well as of Réseau Eurias [Eurias network] that includes the main European Institutes for Advanced Study.
IMéRA 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 IMéRA 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):
IMéRA/LabexMed : Call for applications 2016-2017: The IMéRA/LabexMed specific call is aimed at researchers (scientists) with a project in connection with the Mediterranean. LabexMed’s ambition is to make progress in cross-disciplinary, integrated research on the Mediterranean on the strength of its partner units’ 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.
IMéRA : Call for applications 2016-2017: This call is open to scientists and artists of all disciplines, both junior and senior, with or without official status.
IMéRA/AMSE : Call for applications 2016-2017: The IMéRA/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.
IMéRA/BLRI : Call for applications 2016-2017: Special BLRI residences at IMéRA 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 “Language and Brain”.
IMéRA : Call for Team applications 2016-2017: 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
IMéRA/OT-Med : Call for applications 2016-2017: The IMéRA/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.
IMéRA/MuCEM : Call for applications 2016-2017: MéRA/MuCEM specific call is open to historians, geographers, heritage and museography staffs of the Mediterranean.
IMéRA/Inserm : Call for applications 2016-2017: 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
IMéRA will pay an allowance to researchers, who fall into two classes.
- Junior: €2,300 monthly allowance;
- Senior: €3,500 monthly allowance.
IMéRA provides free accommodation and round transportation.
Junior class: Researchers who have 2 to 9 years of 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’ 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: http://candidatures-imera.univ-amu.fr/en
Deadlines
**Internal process – New for 2015
- CURO has replaced the pdf CURO checklist with an online approval process through cuResearch
- Applications will be submitted via the newly launched cuResearch Portal , through which Departmental and Associate Dean’s approval must be provided to complete the online application process.
How to access cuResearch?
Log in at the cuResearch Researcher Portal homepage using your MyCarletonOne credentials. If this is not working, contact cuResearch support for registration. Follow the external funding application instructions here: Accessing cuResearch
| 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
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact the appropriate Research Facilitator for help with proposal development and substantive review.