International Projects

infos
Creation date: 
01/03/2007
Address: 

Head: 15 parvis René-Descartes, 69007 Lyon - FRANCE

Office: 190 avenue de France, 75013 Paris - FRANCE

Phone: 
+33 (0)1 49 54 22 55
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texte 1: 

Under its policy of integrating the French institutes for advanced study (IAS) into major IAS networks around the world – a policy that has led it to assume the roles of coordinator of the EURIAS programme since 2008 and secretariat of the NETIAS network since 2009 – the RFIEA has since October 2010 been participating in the University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS) network.

 

This emerging world-wide network comprises 37 institutes located in 26 countries, including the United States, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Canada, China, Republic of Korea, India, Japan and Taiwan. Major institutes such as those of Shanghai, Taipei, São Paulo, Vancouver, Perth and Stellenbosch are members of the network, which accounts for a flow of nearly 1,500 researchers per year.

 

The RFIEA is a member of the UBIAS Steering Committee, which will hold its first meeting in June 2011 at Fudan University in Shanghai to outline the network’s international coordination procedures and future initiatives.
 

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As part of its policy of international development to serve the interests of the French institutes for advanced study, the RFIEA has established a tripartite collaborative arrangement with the Social Science Research Council, the main social science coordinating body in the United States, and the French Agence nationale de la recherche. The collaboration among these three partners is based on their common desire to forge close links between the internationalisation of research, mobility for scholars and the expansion of research potential.

 

The initiative is structured as follows: a French-American research project taking a multidisciplinary, comparative approach is developed by senior researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. The project involves two complementary working arrangements: resident research fellowships offering scholars selected by a French IAS a shared venue where they can pursue their research and writing, and support for the doctoral training of a dozen young scholars selected through a French-American call for applications. An international colloquium is also scheduled, as well as seminars and research workshops in a French IAS and in the United States.

 

In 2010, Nancy Foner (City University of New York) and Christophe Bertossi (Institut français des relations internationales) submitted the project Multiculturalism, Immigration and Identities in the United States and in Western Europe. The Collegium de Lyon agreed to host the project, and its scientific advisory board recommended that Christophe Bertossi be offered a fellowship from May to October to develop it. An international colloquium (participants included Erik Bleich, Gary Freeman, Léo Lucassen, Eric Fassin and Patrick Simon) was held on 10 June 2010. Short-term fellowships in Lyon have been arranged, along with a workshop to explore the topic in depth with a dozen French and US doctoral students. In September 2010, the doctoral students (who received a research grant lasting a few months to help them get started on their research) and fellows met again in Philadelphia to continue their discussions. This project is the first international venture of the Social Science Research Council’s highly reputed Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF); it is supported by CampusFrance and the Mellon Foundation (via le SSRC).

 

The success of this initiative led to a second project, in progress since the fall of 2010 with the Institut méditerranéen de recherches avancées de Marseille. The research topic (Border Crossings: Bridging Disciplines and Research Agendas) and a French-American team headed by Virginie Guiraudon (French National Centre for Scientific Research – Sciences Po) and Ruben Hernandez Leon (University of California) have been confirmed for the spring of 2011. Four French and US researchers will be resident fellows at IMéRA, and an international colloquium is scheduled for 10 June 2011 in Marseille. Twelve French and US doctoral students were selected through a call for applications issued in the fall of 2010. A working seminar for fellows and doctoral students is scheduled for September.

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In March 2011, after some months of negotiations, the RFIEA and the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) signed an agreement on co-financing for the hosting of French-speaking researchers from the “South” in French institutes for advanced study. The researchers invited are identified and selected on the basis of proposals made by the institutes, based in turn on the results of their calls for applications or their invitation campaigns. The process is fully in accordance with the criteria and processes established by the institutes’ international scientific advisory boards.

 

As stipulated in Article 4 of the agreement on implementation and follow-up procedures, selected candidates must:

 

• speak French;

• have the status of lecturer-researcher in a Southern higher education institution that is a member of the AUF;

• submit a grant application in response to a call for applications issued by the network of institutes and be evaluated by the network’s scientific bodies;

• conduct their research in one of the following areas: the French language; cultural and linguistic diversity; the rule of law, democracy and society; environment, water, energy and climate; sustainable development and human welfare: poverty reduction and innovation in public health; the knowledge economy; expertise and innovation for higher education; knowledge of the French-speaking countries and communities.

 

The agreement relates to co-financing of the cost of hosting four fellows per year, invited for a total of 40 researcher-months. The co-financing terms are similar to those of European mobility programmes (Marie Curie Action COFUND), with 40% of the total cost being covered by the multilateral body.

 

The RFIEA has formed a very active partnership with the AUF concerning communication on the website and through the newsletter, where the institutes’ calls for applications appear on the first page.

 

Resident fellows receiving support under the AUF-RFIEA agreement in 2011/2012

Ibrahima Diop, IAS-Paris (2 months)

Faculty of Education Sciences, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar

Rationality and raciality: Black Africa in the system of transnational movement during the European Enlightenment.

 

Abdesslam Boutayeb, IMéRA, Marseille (3 months)

Faculty of Science, Université Mohammed Ier, Oujda, Morocco

Equal access to health care and human development in the Mediterranean region.

 

Mohamed Kerrou, IMéRA, Marseille (6 months)

Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

The Tunisian revolution.

 

Ernest-Marie Mbonda, Collegium de Lyon (5 months)

Université catholique d’Afrique centrale, Yaounde, Cameroon

Ethnocultural justice and minority rights in Africa: the cases of Cameroon and Burundi.

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In early 2011, the RFIEA joined two working groups formed by the ATHENA Alliance:

 

Jacques Commaille, emeritus professor at the Ecole normale supérieure in Cachan and president of the RFIEA, is participating in the “Structuring” working group chaired by François Weil (President of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales).

 

Olivier Bouin, director of the RFIEA, is participating in the “Internationalisation” working group chaired by Bruno Sire (President of Université de Toulouse 1), with Alain Peyraube as rapporteur. The working group holds monthly meetings and has adopted the following work programme, which matches up with certain priorities of the RFIEA:

 

• access to international knowledge production (language training, digital libraries, participation in international research infrastructure, etc.);

• international education (master’s and doctoral training: international doctoral schools, co-supervision, international co-diplomas, etc.);

• international mobility (both inward and outward) of researchers and lecturer-researchers at all stages of their careers (doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, junior and senior researchers, research teams; policy on grants, sabbaticals and secondment, arrangements for hosting foreign researchers, etc.);

• international recruitment of researchers and lecturer-researchers in universities, major research institutions and national research centres (recruitment terms, recognition of the value of international mobility in national careers, etc.);

• dissemination of knowledge output (translations, publication in international journals and/or by international publishers, co-publication, open archives, digital research notes, etc.);

• participation in European and international research projects (structuring of international laboratories, coordination of or participation in European projects, funding of projects by international foundations, formation of networks of researchers or institutions, etc.).

éléments liés
iea: 
Collegium de Lyon
Nantes IAS
IMéRA of Marseille
Paris-IAS
staff: 
Mylène Trouvé
Olivier Bouin
candidater: 
EURIAS
IAS
SSRC-ANR