Funder: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Due Dates: July 1, 2027 (Next annual opening) | October 15, 2026, 15:00 Lisbon time (Application deadline) | April 15, 2027 (Results notification deadline)
Funding Amounts: Individually determined support for 3–8 months, including stipend, travel, insurance, and partial housing allowance
Summary: Supports original individual research at GIAS in Lisbon within an interdisciplinary community encouraging reflection, concentration, and exchange.
Key Information: Continuous residency is required, and projects cannot require laboratory or experimental procedures or be primarily practice-oriented.
Description
The Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study (GIAS), established by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, supports independently chosen research in a stimulating intellectual environment. The fellowships bring together scholars across disciplines, backgrounds, and nationalities, providing time for concentrated individual inquiry alongside exchange within a scholarly community. The Institute is currently housed in the Foundation’s main building in Lisbon.
The program considers academics, emeriti, independent scholars, other professionals, and artists. It supports work across fields of inquiry that does not require laboratory or experimental facilities and is not primarily practice- or application-oriented. Quality, originality, and fit with the Institute’s intellectual environment are central priorities. GIAS seeks a balance of established scholars and promising younger intellectuals, without a preset proportion.
