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:

EU Institutions, Governance and Democracy
Migration
Economic and Monetary Policy
Competition Policy and Market Regulation
Energy and Climate Policy
Global Governance
International and Transnational Relations

Of these fellowships, 10 are offered as Global Governance Fellowships and affiliated to the RSCAS’ Global Governance Programme.

Preference is given to proposals within the following domains:

International financial and economic regulation with a focus on the global economy and the mechanisms of global economic governance
Global governance and democracy with a focus on how both democratic representation and political participation are being impacted by democracy. Use of behavioural sciences will be welcomed.
Different institutional alternatives for global governance: regional integration, international organizations, transnational networks and private governance, global administrative law etc. The research should focus on a comparative approach to these different institutional alternatives and/or the methodological consequences for social sciences of the study of these
International trade
Climate change
Development policy
Ethnic / religious diversity and social cohesion at the European and global level

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.