Mobility grants for PhD students in Linguistics. LABEX-EFL
For the 11th year, the Labex EFL (Paris) offers mobility grants for a period of 3 months in 2024 to PhD students in Linguistics and related fields from outside France.
Deadline for submission of applications: August 23, 2023 (23:59 - Paris time).
1. Context of the call
The aim of the Laboratoire d’excellence “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics : data, methods, models” (Labex EFL) is to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research within Linguistics and its related fields. Specific interest is given to empirical foundations (corpus analysis and experimental methods) of linguistic research.
For the 11th year, the Labex EFL offers mobility grants for a period of 3 months each to PhD students in linguistics and related fields.
The Labex EFL is a fourteen-year project, funded by the French government. It gathers 11 research teams (CRLAO, HTL, INCC, Lacito, Lattice, LIPN, Llacan, LLF, LPP, CeRMI, Sedyl) from 4 universities (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord et Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales INALCO), in a partnership with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Research and Development Institute (IRD). It contributes to the IdEx Université Paris Cité.
2. Grant description
Candidates must be PhD students from a university outside France, working in different fields of linguistics, including but not limited to empirical linguistics, typology, field linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics. The selected candidates will receive a stipend of 3,500 euros + transport costs.
The mobility has to take place in 2024. If the mobility cannot be organized in 2024, the grant will be lost.
During their fellowship, they will be hosted by one of the research units of Labex EFL and will attend research seminars at one of the partner universities. A certificate of attendance and validation of these seminars will be provided at the end of the semester.
(PhDs that are co-supervised by one partner university in France cannot do their mobility in this university)
3. Applications
The application file should include the following documents :
- CV and cover letter
- An official document certifying their enrollment in a PhD programme
- A statement of 4-5 pages explaining their PhD project and its relevance to the research topics of the Labex EFL.
- A letter of recommendation from their PhD supervisor
- A letter of invitation from a local EFL project advisor cosigned by the director of the inviting laboratory in France.
- An estimation of transport cost (only main transport). Other costs have to be covered by the grant (visa, insurance costs…).
4. Deadline and selection process
Deadline for applications : August 23rd, 2023 (11.59 pm – Paris time)
Applications should be sent to the project manager Christel Préterre (christel.preterre@u-paris.fr), copy to the Labex EFL coordinator, Barbara Hemforth (barbara.hemforth@linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and the training officer, Stefano Manfredi (stefano.manfredi@cnrs.fr).
Applications will be examined by the Labex EFL Scientific Council and decisions will be communicated in the course of September 2023