Thomas Jefferson Fund
The Thomas Jefferson Fund provides a unique framework to enable promising and innovative projects to reach their full potential and enrich French-American research collaborations.
The Thomas Jefferson Fund issues a yearly call for proposals and fund projects led by two outstanding young American and French researchers at the beginning of their careers, with mid- to long- term positions at a research or higher education institution in the United States or in France (post-doctorate level, assistant or associate professor, maître de conférences or chargé de recherche).
The Fund aims to encourage cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research projects of the highest quality and especially seeks to support emerging collaborations involving a team of younger researchers.
Grants will be awarded per funding cycle in each of the following fields:
• Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH)
• Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Sciences for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-SSH projects)
See the program guidelines and website for more information.
2 years
$20,000 total
- The Fund considers projects jointly submitted by two scientists at the beginning of their careers, including notably:
- On the American side, researchers at the post-doctorate level, assistant or associate professors at a university in the United States are eligible.
- On the French side, researchers at the post-doctorate level, maîtres de conferences and chargés de recherche at a French institution of higher education and research are eligible.
- US or French citizenship is not required.
- Applicants must provide proof that they are employed at either the US or French institution for at least the duration of the partnership, i.e. 2 years.
- Senior researchers may be included as team members but not as project leaders.
- PhD candidates are not eligible as project leaders.
- An additional partner institution may be added to the project proposal, but this additional partner will not receive any funding from the Thomas Jefferson Fund.
- Only the research or higher education institutions of the project leaders will receive funding.