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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers one-year Jean Monnet Fellowships to scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than five years prior to the start of the fellowship, i.e. 1 September 2025 for the academic year 2025-26. Applications are now open for this opportunity.
Opportunity Details
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers one-year Jean Monnet Fellowships to scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than five years prior to the start of the fellowship, i.e. 1 September 2025 for the academic year 2025-26. The Fellowship programme is open to post-docs, tenure-track academics and those wishing to spend their sabbatical at the Centre. The Centre offers up to 20 fellowships a year: We invite you to become part of a lively and creative academic community!
Jean Monnet Fellows are selected on the basis of a research proposal and of their CV. The research proposal should fit well with one of the Centre’s main research themes, programmes and projects.
More information about the Centre’s research programmes and projects can be found on the Research section.
Jean Monnet Fellows are based at the Robert Schuman Centre and associated with one of the Centre’s projects and programmes. They are expected to actively participate in the academic life of the Centre and contribute to the activities of the project or programme they are associated with. They can take part in the activities of the EUI postdoctoral programme and are encouraged to collaborate with researchers, other postdocs and EUI academic staff.
Those prospective applicants who would like to work with academics based in the Schuman Centre but who obtained their doctorate less than five years ago should consider applying to the Max Weber Programme.
Requested Documents
Please use standard international fonts, do not use macros, special characters, password-protection, electronic signatures or logos. The Letter of Motivation and Research proposal should also meet the requirements established by the EUI Guidelines for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence for Research. In particular, candidates should refrain from having Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) autonomously write substantial or integral parts of the documents. When using AI to produce novel content, they must acknowledge and reference the parts of the content that have been AI-generated.
Letters of References
Your referees will be contacted and will be allowed to submit the reference only after you have completed and registered the first step of the online application form including the names and contact details of referees. In order to receive the references in time by the deadline, you should register the referee details as soon as possible . This is possible at any time, and you do not yet need to submit the final version of your application at that time.
When you register your referees' contact details in the online application form, an email requesting a reference on your behalf is automatically sent to the referees you have nominated. Nevertheless, it is your responsibility to contact referees directly to inform them of your request, to verify that they have received the email request and to ensure that they submit the reference by the deadline. Please note that reference letters can be submitted by the registered referees (before the deadline) even after you have submitted your application. Registered referees may contact the Academic Service in case of questions or problems by emailing [email protected].
Notes for Referees
Once the candidate has registered the details of their referees, each referee will receive an e-mail with access details for submitting their reference letter online.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact the Academic Service emailing [email protected].
The deadline for submitting references is 25 October 2024 (14:00 CEST). Kindly note that the EUI encourages candidates to apply and register their referees as early as possible: the application process is open from mid-July to the deadline 25 October 2024 (14:00 CEST).
Applications must be submitted through the Online Application Form.
There are two distinct phases in the application process:
1. Register your application as early as possible.
You are encouraged to register your application, by inserting your personal details and referee details as soon as possible. This is important to allow sufficient time for your referees to submit the reference letters before the deadline. References will not be accepted after the deadline.
2. Submit your application by the deadline 25 October 2024 (14:00 CEST).
Once you have registered your application you may continue to work on the application details and attachments until the deadline of 25 October 2024 (14:00 CEST). Submit the application only when you have filled in all the information correctly and have successfully uploaded the final version of the attachments.
Applications Deadline
The deadline for applications is 25 October 2024 at 14:00 (CEST) - Online application form will be available as of mid-July 2024.
Data Protection Policy
By registering/submitting application, you give your consent for processing the data as specified in the Privacy Statement for Application and Selection Procedures for EUI Post-Doctoral Programmes and in accordance with the EUI’s Data Protection Policy outlined in the EUI Data Protection Policy (Decision of the President No. 10 of 18 February 2019).
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