COLLEGE DE LYON: Institute for Advanced Study - Call for International Researchers 2009

The Collegium de Lyon, France, invites leading international researchers for 5-10 month periods to its Lyon facility.

The Collegium de Lyon, IEA (Advanced Studies Institute), the result of an innovative concept in France, exists to create an international scientific community of excellence and to encourage exchange between disciplines, cultures and languages. Its research activities are mainly centred on human and social sciences, but also on the exact sciences, with a view to ensuring a transversal approach and in genuine world vision via a truly innovative inter-disciplinary perspective. 

The Collegium de Lyon aims to combine the institute’s scientific programme with challenge of sharing knowledge for action. Its research areas cover a broad spectrum, from the questioning of complexity or globalisation to sustainable development and health issues. The Collegium de Lyon also aims to bring human sciences closer to the world of business. Research carried out must contribute to accompanying change in companies and encouraging development of a knowledge economy.

Since its creation in 2006, the Collegium de Lyon has launched two priority scientific themes, the behaviour and practices of health and language. The Institute plays an active part within both chairs, drawing together research, business and public action: chair of responsible globalisation and chair for remembrance, culture and multi-culture.

Today, the Collegium is inviting applications from the scientific community for new researchers, motivated by these ambitious goals, as well as to companies and institutions who may become providers of scientific projects as part of their strategy to take positive action.

Call for applicants 2009: the next application session is scheduled for April 2009
 
The Collegium de Lyon invites leading international researchers for 5-10 month periods to its Lyon facility. During this stay, researchers are freed from their usual teaching and research management obligations. They work on the development of their own scientific projects in a stimulating environment created by the group of guest fellows and the academic and social culture of the city of Lyon.

Fellows initiate research projects based on either individual programmes or in relation to the priority themes defined by the Collegium (ASLAN/Advanced Studies on LANguage; Health behaviour and practices), or around dedicated chairs in collaboration with other French or international institutions (Chair for responsible globalisation, Chair for remembrance, culture and multi-culture). Researchers may also form thematic workgroups, inviting fellows to work on a joint project or with other researchers working in similar scientific fields.

The next scientific council will meet in April 2009 to select the best individual applicants or to form a coherent thematic research group on the basis of applications received by February 15th, 2009.

The application file is first examined by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts, which analyses the research project. The file must contain:

• The candidate’s curriculum vitae and main publications, along with the research proposal. Two reference letters are also required for junior researchers
• The presentation of the research project, 5 pages maximum. This must include the following elements:
  - The subject, methodology, sources and main relevant bibliographic references
  - The contribution that the candidate’s work will make to his field of research
  - What it will contribute to other research fields and what it may receive in return from other research fields

Please see www.collegium-lyon.fr for further details.