Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) offers one or two year fellowships to post-docs in an early stage of their academic career.
The main criteria of selection are the CV of the applicant, the overall scientific quality of the proposal, and the fit of the proposal with the Centre's research programme.
Priority will be given to proposals that fit well with one or more of the Centre's core research themes :
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EU Institutions, Governance and Democracy
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Migration
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Economic and Monetary Policy
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Development Policy
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Competition Policy and Market Regulation
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Energy and Climate Policy
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Global Governance
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International and Transnational Relations
RSCAS also offers up to 10 Global Governance Fellowships. Preference is given to proposals within the following domains:
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International financial and economic regulation with a focus on international monetary issues and global imbalances
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Global governance and democracy
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Different institutional alternatives for global governance: regional integration, international organizations, transnational networks and private governance, global administrative law etc.
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International trade
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Climate change
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Terrorism and counterterrorism policies, with a focus on its relationship with human rights issues
Two of the fellowships are awarded to candidates working on European Comparative Politics or European Comparative History as ‘Vincent Wright Fellowships’, in memory of the distinguished political scientist, Vincent Wright.
While at the RSCAS, each fellow is assigned a professorial mentor. Fellows work on a selected topic that fits with the research profile of the RSCAS and they are expected to participate actively in the research activities of the Centre. In addition, their stay at the Centre should result in the publication of either a RSCAS working paper or a publication in a scientific journal or with an appropriate publishing house.
The annual deadline for applications is 25 October.