[CALL FOR APPLICATIONS] USP/Collegium de Lyon Chairs: 2025/2026 residencies

On The January 22, 2025

The University of São Paulo and the Collegium de Lyon have just signed a new multi-year partnership, enabling a USP researcher to spend five months each year in a research unit at the Lyon Saint-Étienne university site, between September and January, or between February and June.

The University of São Paulo/Collegium de Lyon chair is open to full professors affiliated with USP.
Applications must include a letter of recommendation from the director of the applicant’s research unit at USP, as well as another letter from the director of the research unit at one of the institutions at the Lyon Saint-Étienne university site that will host the selected applicant.
All academic research fields are eligible.
 

This joint chair includes:

  • A USP stipend,
  • All-inclusive accommodation (excluding home insurance) in an apartment in the Collegium residence on the ENS de Lyon campus,
  • Support with administrative formalities,
  • Integration into our 2025-2026 interdisciplinary group of researchers in residence.

The call for applications and the application form are available on the USP website (in Portuguese):

View the call for applications


Applicants interested in the USP chair must include a letter of recommendation from the director of the research unit co-hosting them at the Université de Lyon.
 

Application dates

Applications open until March 17, 2025

Results are published on April 04, 2025


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