Un site utilisant WordPress Funding and benefits: You are interested in discussing your research in the framework of MECAM’s main theme “Imagining futures: Dealing with disparity” with colleagues from the Maghreb, the Middle East, Europe, and other regions of the world. You want to become part of a network of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and transregional exchange and debate on disparity and the competing models for the future that co- exist in the societies of the contemporary Maghreb, Europe, and other parts of the world. Forum Transregionale Studien,Berlin: The Forum Transregionale Studien is a platform that promotes the internationalization of research in the humanities and social sciences. It enables collaboration among researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds and awards fellowships to researchers from all over the world. The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), based in Tunis, promotes interdisciplinary, interregional, and intergenerational research. As a centre for Advanced Study, it is dedicated to free academic exchange in the humanities and social sciences on the processes and issues that divide and connect the Maghreb, the Middle East and Europe historically and in our time – e.g., beliefs, cultural practices, distribution of resources, migration, rule of law, socio-economic conflicts, or (transitional) justice. ACCUEILLE CENTRE▼À propos du MECAMObjet académiqueL’initiative MerianÉquipe MECAMErasmus Staff MobilityAppel À Candidatures▼APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS: THEMATIC FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY, CONFLICT AND COLONIALITYLes opportunitésContactFORMATS▼Formats Phase PrincipaleFormats Phase PreliminairePROGRAMME DE BOURSES▼Phase principale▼Programme de bourses MECAMChercheurs principaux du clusterBourses individuelles 2025Bourses individuelles 2024Bourses individuelles 2023Bourses de longue durée 2023Phase Préliminaire▼Bourses individuelles 2021Chercheurs affiliésGermany Research VisitsVisiting ScholarsCALENDRIERÉVENEMENTS▼Rencontres Ibn Khaldun & Policy TalksWorkshops and conferencesAteliers de publication du MECAMTraveling Academy &Transregional WorkshopsSeasonal TalksMECAM SpectrumDoctoral SchoolPUBLICATIONS▼PublicationsMECAM PublicationsMECAM Papers MECAM Blog SeriesMECAM Book SeriesMÈDIAS▼MECAM dans les médiasNewsletterMECAM PodcastMaghrebi Minds: Imagining FuturesVidéo ConferencesLANGUES Eligibility and filters: ELIGIBILITY & MOTIVATION Independent scholars and researchers without a current institutional affiliation are eligible to apply Please note that current PhD candidates (doctoral students) are not eligible to apply. The call is open to postdoctoral and advanced researchers only. Names and contact details of two referees (university faculty members or practitioners in a field relevant to the applicant’s project; no letters of recommendation required) Application: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: MECAM- Fellowships 2026-2027 The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites applications for eight residential fellowships for postdoctoral and advanced researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the period from September 2026 to April 2027. Under the overall theme “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity” MECAM is dedicated to a research agenda framed by five interrelated ‘Interdisciplinary Research Fields’ (IRFs): Aesthetics & Cultural Practice, Inequality & Mobility, Memory & Justice, Resources & Sustainability, and Identities & Beliefs. Applications should be related to the main theme and at least one of the IRFs. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia. Deadline 02.03.2026; 12.30h CEST (afternoon). Click below to download all the documents for call for applications and FAQ Call for ApplicationsFellowship ProgrammeCall for Applications Applications are welcome from postdoc and advanced researchers of all fields in the social sciences and humanities if: This call for applications is open to researchers of all ages and genders from all countries, including Tunisia. YOUR APPLICATION Past editions and people: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: MECAM- Fellowships 2026-2027 The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites applications for eight residential fellowships for postdoctoral and advanced researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the period from September 2026 to April 2027. Under the overall theme “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity” MECAM is dedicated to a research agenda framed by five interrelated ‘Interdisciplinary Research Fields’ (IRFs): Aesthetics & Cultural Practice, Inequality & Mobility, Memory & Justice, Resources & Sustainability, and Identities & Beliefs. Applications should be related to the main theme and at least one of the IRFs. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia. Call for ApplicationsFellowship ProgrammeCall for Applications FELLOWSHIP Six post-doctoral and two advanced researchers will be invited as MECAM Fellows on the basis of an evaluation of the quality and originality of their research proposal. Projects should address one or more of the themes sketched out in the IRFs. Fellows are expected to take up residency for up to 8 months in Tunis, from 1 September 2026 to 30 April 2027. During the period of their residency, Fellows of MECAM will have the opportunities to work on their self-chosen individual research projects and for exchange in and outside MECAM, with their co-fellows, with colleagues from Tunisia, and those from MECAM’s networks. Fellows are expected to participate in on-site seminars and colloquia, to work regularly at MECAM offices. They will be invited to take responsibility in shaping formats that support collaborative work and are expected to participate in the academic life of MECAM. While developing their own research, fellows present their research to their co-fellows and may explore individua Fellows will become part of the MECAM network, which will is built up by subsequent groups of fellows, and by the scholars of the institutions that are involved in the institutional framework. MECAM and its partner institutions offer networking and publication opportunities via specific networks, formats and support. The primary aim of MECAM is to create a high-quality and flexible setting for peer-to-peer exchange and debate between researchers from different countries, disciplines, and in different phases of their academic career: The fellowship combines virtual and in-person forms of exchange and debate, and facilitates collaboration and engagement with scholars at MECAM partner institutions, students, and the wider public. The MECAM directors and coordination office in Tunis support fellows during their stay. A key part of academic life are the annual Study Day in early-December and the Event Week (“MECAM Spectrum”) in mid-April, which are mainly coordinated and organized by the fellows. During this week, they present their work and invite external guests. MECAM’s partner institutions also offer opportunities for publication and academic exchange. MECAM fellows can pursue their individual research projects in the form they choose, be it an academic article, an essay, a policy paper, a book, a report, etc. Projects can have particular components of field or archive research (in Tunis, and/or a neighbouring state in the Maghreb if the duration does not conflict in principle with the obligation for residence).