The application for applying to the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) will open on 4 September 2023 and will close on 6 November 2023, at midnight Paris time. All documents needed for the competition will be available on 4 September via the dedicated application.
The Law on Research Programming (LPR), enacted on 24 December 2020, has led to a significant increase in the number of IUF chairs, from 110 to 200 per year in the space of three years.
For the 2024 campaign, the following are open to competition:
– 100 Junior Chairs, including 80 Fundamental Chairs, 15 Innovation Chairs and 5 Science Mediation Chairs;
– 100 Senior Chairs, including 80 Fundamental Chairs, 15 Innovation Chairs and 5 Science Mediation Chairs.
You will find the exact definitions of these new chairs in the circular published today in the Official Bulletin of Higher Education and Research, accessible here.
Reminder: the IUF’s three core missions are to:
- encourage institutions and teachers-researchers to achieve excellence in research, innovation and mediation, with the positive consequences that can be expected in terms of teaching and training young researchers and, more generally, disseminating and transferring knowledge in society at large;
- increase the number of women working in the field of research;
- contribute to a balanced distribution of academic research throughout France and, accordingly, to a policy of scientific networking.