Alliance Visiting Professorships
Columbia University's Alliance Visiting Professorships enable faculty exchanges with top French institutions to promote collaborative research and teaching.
Funder: Columbia University
Due Dates: December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2026 (anticipated/projected)
Funding Amounts: Six awards annually; supports travel, housing, and/or stipend for semester/short-term faculty exchanges
Summary: Enables faculty exchanges between Columbia University and premier French institutions to foster long-term research and teaching collaborations.
Key Information: Open to faculty from all disciplines at Columbia and partner French universities; program emphasizes sustainable transatlantic partnerships.
Description
The Alliance Visiting Professorships program, coordinated by Columbia University in partnership with École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, supports transatlantic faculty exchanges to strengthen institutional ties and promote enduring research and teaching collaborations. Each year, six faculty members (three from Columbia, three from French partner institutions) are selected to spend a semester or several weeks at a partner university, where they teach, deliver public lectures, and build sustainable academic partnerships. The program is open to faculty from all disciplines and is designed to catalyze long-term, cross-disciplinary collaboration between Columbia and leading French universities.
