MARTINE AUBLET FOUNDATION FIELD GRANTS
Call for applications for the 2024-2025 academic year

Since 2011, the Fondation Martine Aublet - Agir pour l'éducation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, has been working in partnership with the Research and Education Department of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, to support the younger generation of researchers working in non-European fields, by funding grants at doctoral and master's level.

The disciplines concerned are anthropology, archaeology, ethnolinguistics, ethnomusicology, history, art history and sociology. Research in other disciplines may be accepted, provided that it involves a solid dialogue with the above-mentioned disciplines. Methods may include ethnographic or ethnolinguistic research, archival and documentary research (including collections), or archaeological excavations.

Applicants must be enrolled in a French higher education establishment or a French-speaking university abroad. There is no nationality requirement.

RESEARCH GRANTS (DOCTORATE LEVEL)

The Foundation awards grants of €15,000 to fund field research by students in the first or second year of their doctoral studies.

Funding is available for fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, lasting at least 6 months between 1 October of the current year and 30 September of the following year.

The research grant application must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervisor.

The thesis proposal may be written in English or French. Winners receive their grant in two instalments. The second payment is conditional on the submission to the Foundation of a brief report (financial and scientific) together with a letter from the thesis supervisor attesting to the satisfactory progress of the research.

A final report will be requested at the end of the year.

The complete application must be sent by midnight on 27 June at the latest.

Download registration form - Doctorate

RESEARCH GRANTS (MASTER'S LEVEL)

The Foundation awards grants worth €2,000 to students wishing to carry out their first research outside Europe at Master's level.

The application for a research grant (Master's level) must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the thesis supervisor, also certifying that the student is enrolled in a Master's programme.

If you have not received an acknowledgement of receipt of your application, please contact us.

List of eligible applications (masters level)

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REGISTRATION OF APPLICATIONS

The application evaluation system comprises two bodies: a committee of rapporteurs, and then the Scientific Advisory Board, which draws up the list of successful candidates.

To be registered, the complete application must be sent electronically by midnight on 9 June at the latest for master's scholarships and by midnight on 27 June at the latest for doctoral scholarships, to the following address: bourses.martineaublet@quaibranly.fr.

(the various documents will be grouped together in a single .pdf file, which may not exceed 5MB in size (files larger than 5MB will be automatically rejected by our computer servers, without warning).

titled as follows:

NOMDUCANDIDAT_bourseFMA_DOC_2023.pdf or NOMDUCANDIDAT_bourseFMA_MASTER_2023.pdf

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

Students intending to register for the first year of a thesis (or the first year of a master's degree) at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year must attach to their application a certificate from their future thesis (or master's) supervisor confirming their registration. They must send proof of registration before 6 September 2024.

The list of prize-winners will be posted on the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac website and distributed at the start of the 2024 academic year (the exact date will be announced at a later date). The award ceremony will take place on the evening of 30 September 2024 at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (the scholarship holders are expected to attend).