Collegium de Lyon

The Collegium de Lyon is the Institute for Advanced Study of the Université de Lyon, a world-class academic site that covers the entire Lyon/Saint-Etienne area and boasts one of the strongest research ecosystems in the country. Its ten member institutions include 6,800 researchers in 172 laboratories.

Since its opening in 2008 the Collegium has hosted 231 international fellows from 48 different countries. It aims to nurture original and ambitious research projects in line with the scientific scope of one of its academic ecosystem's research units. The Collegium typically hosts an equal number of fellows from the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) sectors, who are united in the Institute's weekly interdisciplinary seminar.

Fellows are accommodated in fully furnished one- to three-bedroom apartments located in a dedicated building on the Descartes campus of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, which is conveniently located next to several metro and tram stops. They share a workspace on the first floor of the residence and have direct access to the Denis Diderot University Library and its interlibrary loan service. Fellows are also co-sponsored by a local research unit that helps them integrate into the campus community in their specific field of research.

The Collegium welcomes applications from any sector in the scientific study of the human being, broadly understood as the scientific study of all dimensions of human reality (from its physico-biological to its socio-cultural ones).