Funding a research project

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The "TNT" doctoral project is concerned with the links between digital technology, new ways of working and territories. The advent of digital technologies since the 2000s has changed people's relationship to work, with the COVID crisis accelerating mutations already at work. Hybrid work is developing through telecommuting and the fragmentation of workspaces.

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This thesis opportunity in the humanities and social sciences is part of the TWIN 2026 interdisciplinary program at Compiègne University of Technology. The research will focus on the actual conditions under which environmental and health monitoring of PFAS is implemented, in particular the methods used to produce, circulate and use monitoring data. It will also examine the possibilities for integrating analytical innovations into existing environmental monitoring and public action systems. Applications from geography, sociology, STS and political science are encouraged.

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The Bourses Regard are intended for up-and-coming academics working in the fields explored by the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation in Geneva, or on related themes, and who are willing to stay in Geneva to benefit from the resources of our library. Applications for 2027 are now open and can be made online.

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The International Excellence in the Humanities Fellowship Programme promotes academic diversity and interdisciplinarity and welcomes researchers with an international background to apply for post doctoral fellowships at the MaCI. The Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation (MaCI), UGA's International Center for the Humanities, is launching its annual Research Fellowship Programme. We offer 6 research fellowships (early career, advanced, distinguished) in the arts, humanitiesand social sciences.

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The Fondation Yves Klein is pleased to announce the launch of a new research grant program designed to support the renewal of studies devoted to the artist and encourage the exploration of his work, ideas and creative legacy. This biannual program consists of a residency and an endowment of CHF 6,000. It is aimed at young researchers of all nationalities, and aims to bring out new narratives, place the artist's work in a broader cultural context, highlight its resonance with contemporary societal and ecological issues, and consider its reception in a diversity of geographies.

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The Marmottan Library and Villa is pleased to open the recruitment campaign for its future resident researchers for the year 2026-2027.

The call for applications is open to all researchers, French or foreign, regardless of subject or field of research (history, art history, musicology, literature, etc.), as long as it contributes to knowledge of the Napoleonic period or, more generally, the first European 19th century.

The hosting program from September 2026 to June 2027 covers 2 residencies, each of which will include:

• payment by the Académie des Beaux-Arts of a monthly grant of €1,500 gross;
• free use of a furnished apartment (approx. 35 m²) adjacent to the Marmottan library.

Institut de France - Current calls for applications (link almost at the bottom of the first page of the Institut de France website)

Information source: Institut de France - Appels à candidatures en cours (link almost at the bottom of the first page of the Institut de France website)

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Presentation

GIS Patrimoines en partage is organizing the second edition of its prize in 2026. The sum of €3,000 will be awarded to the winner for publication support.

This prize is intended to reward research work that corresponds to the concerns of the GIS Patrimoines en partage, distinguished by its quality, its innovative content and the care taken in its writing.

The prize corresponds to support for the first publication of the doctoral thesis. The GIS will pay this aid directly to the prizewinner(s) after receipt of a commitment to publish within a maximum period of twelve months from the date of payment of the prize.

Depending on the quality of the work presented, the jury may decide to award a special mention to a second thesis, which will also receive a publication grant.

In all cases, publication of the thesis by a publisher must include the GIS logo on the 4th cover and mention the support of GIS Patrimoine en partage. The author will send a copy of the book to the GIS.

Eligibility

Theses must be defended between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2025, at a French university, in French or English (with an introduction and summary in both languages).

Theses may come from any discipline in the human and social sciences (anthropology, geography, history, art history, archaeology, information and communication sciences, law, political science, sociology, etc.).

Application deadline via GIS midnight 30 06 2026

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The Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, in partnership with the Comité français d'histoire de l'art and the Friends of the Centre Pompidou, is launching the first edition of the Prix de thèse du Centre Pompidou. The Prize will encourage a diversity of subjects, not limited to the collections of the Musée national d'art moderne. It will be awarded for outstanding work in all the disciplines covered by the museum's collection sectors, but not limited to these: visual arts, architecture and design, photography, moving images and archives.

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For over sixty years, Unapei has been working with people with disabilities and their families. Throughout these years, the associations that make up the network have never ceased to question themselves, with the aim of providing support that is ever more in tune with the needs and desires of people with disabilities. Under these conditions, collaboration with the world of scientific research has always held a special place within Unapei. After a successful first edition, Unapei is relaunching its Pierre Lagier Prize for the "Research and Disability" Master 2 thesis. The prize will be awarded to three students for the high quality of their Master 2 research dissertations.

The prize is open to candidates in the human and social sciences or public health, whatever their discipline - sociology, economics and management, law, political science, anthropology, educational science, philosophy, history, psychology or public health.

Students who have defended their dissertations in 2025 or 2026 are eligible to apply.