Videos have become a new tool available to the CIERA community of researchers. Hosted on the CIERA YouTube channel, they allow research work, themes and publications, etc. to be promoted in another way and to a different public.

In collaboration with the publishers of member institutions and other partners, notably the Septentrion University Press, CIERA contributes to the publication of books drawn from the various scientific events it supports, including: study days, training-research programmes, and junior conferences.

Dialogiques is a collection created by CIERA and included in the collection “Bibliothèque allemande” of the éditions Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme. It hosts monographs and collective works on German and Franco-German lands, within an open horizon to Europe and the world beyond Europe.

The collection aims to focus on comparative approaches, while showing, through the analysis of transfers and cross-cutting studies, the logic of interdependence that shapes national groupings in Europe.

By considering both the historical dimension of its objects and their insertion into current affairs, Dialogiques aims to be a laboratory of the diversity of areas and approaches. It seeks to stimulate thinking on the contributions of the humanities and social sciences to the understanding of the world of today.

The collection also hosts books drawn from PhDs awarded with the Michael Werner prize

INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS TO ENHANCE YOUR RESEARCH

CIERA proposes a set of activities to help you to enhance your research work within the scientific community, as well as with students and the general public. The Centre contributes to the publication of reviews, articles and books. It also participates in the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the general public on social networks and through its series of videos.

TOOLS AT YOUR SERVICE

• The journal Trajectoires for young researchers: is open to young researchers enrolled in CIERA who wish to publish the results of an interdisciplinary and Franco-German event, a summary of a PhD or an article.
• The Dialogiques collection is published in the “Bibliothèque allemande” collection of the éditions Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. It hosts books devoted to German and Franco-German issues.
• The Michael Werner PhD prize is awarded every two years to young PhD students enrolled in CIERA. Prize-winning PhDs are published in the Dialogiques collection.
• Les carnets de recherche du CIERA (The CIERA Research Notebooks). This blog is the ideal platform for publishing the proceedings of the events supported by the CIERA.
• Germano-Fil and Franco-Fil. These two blogs are organised jointly with the German Historical Institute, and host feedback on documentary research in France and Germany. The Germano-Fil blog is open to your testimonies!
• Instantanés (or snapshots) is a series of videos for and by community members that showcase their work outside of the usual venues and to a wider audience.

CIERA is also present on social networks, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to highlight news from the members of its community. Follow us and share!

SUPPORTING MOBILITY TO VISIT GERMANY AND THE GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

CIERA offers mobility support for research stays (at master’s degree, PhD and post-doctoral levels) or for internships (master’s level) in Germany or another German-speaking country in the field of humanities and social sciences.
CIERA mobility support is reserved for students and PhD students enrolled in a higher education institution in France.

To find out more about the conditions of eligibility visit our page in French.

WHAT TYPE OF SCHOLARSHIPS?

TO COMPLETE AN INTERNSHIP

• The “René Lasserre” mobility support

TO CARRY OUT A RESEARCH STAY

• Mobility support for recent PhD graduates
• Complete PhD support — for PhD students not receiving any funding
• Partial PhD support — for PhD students already receiving funding for their PhD research
• Mobility support for master’s degree students

CIERA IS A NETWORK OF NETWORKS IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND BEYOND

Thanks to a wide network of partner institutions, CIERA’s actions are developing in France, Germany and around the world.

CIERA also brings together more than 1,500 members, who are researchers, teacher-researchers, PhD and other students working in connection with German-speaking areas in all the disciplines of humanities and social sciences. They are mainly based in France and Germany.

With 12 member establishments located in Ile-de-France, as well as France’s Rhone-Alpes and Grand Est regions, but also a network of DAAD centres associated throughout the world and partners in France and Germany, the CIERA network is present in a large part of the world.

12 MEMBER INSTITUTIONS: 3 CLUSTERS

The CIERA is the result of the synergy of the organisations that make up it. These are12 of the most prestigious French institutions in higher education and research, distributed across the Ile-de-France, the Rhone-Alpes Auvergne and the Grand-Est regions:

ILE-DE-FRANCE CLUSTER

• CY Cergy Paris Université
• École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
• École normale supérieure (ENS)
• Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH)
• Sciences Po
• Sorbonne Université
• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

THE RHÔNE-ALPES CLUSTER

• Sciences Po Grenoble
• Université Lumière Lyon 2
• École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)

THE GRAND EST CLUSTER

• Université de Lorraine
• Université de Strasbourg

Thanks to the CIERA network, these member institutions pool their resources to strengthen their training and research potential concerning Germany. This cooperation strategy also enables them to build new partnerships. The creation of a GermanoPole within the Grand Est region and the “Schwerpunkt Deutschland” seminar piloted by from the Rhone-Alpes cluster are two very good examples.

These institutions also benefit from privileged access to certain funding offers, such as training-research programmes.

20 GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDY CENTERS: INTERNATIONALISATION NETWORK

CIERA is integrated into DAAD’s network of German and European studies centres around the world. This function gives it a privileged place to internationalise its partnerships.

Researchers registered with CIERA have special access to the programmes proposed by the DAAD centres and have access to major opportunities to enhance their work internationally.

Brazil Porto Alegre │Canada Toronto, Montreal │China Beijing │South Korea Seoul │United States Berkeley, Harvard, Madison, Minneapolis, Waltham, Washington │France Paris │Israel Haïfa, Jerusalem │Japan Tokyo │Netherlands Amsterdam │Poland Wrocław │United Kingdom Cambridge, Birmingham │Russia Saint-Petersbourg

MULTIPLE PARTNERSHIPS IN GERMANY AND FRANCE

CIERA offers the possibility of establishing co-operations with all German establishments, without imposing exclusivity. It works closely with other institutions promoting Franco-German work in the humanities and social sciences, such as the Marc Bloch Centre (Berlin), the German Art History Forum (Paris), the Franco-German Institute for Historical and Social Sciences (Frankfurt), the German Historical Institute (Paris), the Goethe Institute network, the Heinrich Heine House of the Cité Universitaire Internationale (Paris), the Franco-German University (Sarrebruck) and many others.

CIERA organises and makes available to its community several blogs hosted on the platform hypothèses.org.

CIERA RESEARCH NOTEBOOKS

The CIERA Research Notebooks Carnets de recherche du CIERA draw on reports and articles from the various events organised with the support of CIERA: training-research programmes, junior conferences, study days etc.

In the category of travelogues by young researchers (Les carnets de voyage des jeunes chercheurs), the blog also welcomes accounts by members who have participated in a Franco-German event or events further afield.

Check out the blog here

GERMANO-FIL AND FRANCO-FIL

The Germano-Fil and Franco-Fil  blogs of CIERA and the Institut historique allemand deal with methodological issues in documentary research in the humanities and social sciences. Through the testimonies and feedback of young researchers, these blogs participate in the exchange of knowledge between France and Germany in this field.

Germano-Fil gathers practical information and advice on scientific resources in Germany.

Discover Germano-Fil

Franco-Fil gathers practical information and advice on scientific resources in France.

Discover Franco-Fil

CIERA awards a PhD prize to honour PhD work in university research related to the German-speaking world.

PRINCIPLES

CIERA awards its Michael Werner Prize every two years. PhDs written in French and drawn from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, in connection with the German-speaking sphere, are eligible.

The prize takes the form of a publication of the award-winning PhD in the Dialogiques collection of CIERA in the Bibliothèque allemande des Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme. The composition, publishing and promotional costs of the book are fully covered by the publisher and by CIERA. The latter is responsible for follow-up with the author to transform the PhD into a book for publication.

The Michael Werner Prize is incompatible with any other prize for the publication of a PhD, and obtaining another prize obliges candidates to withdraw from the competition.

Candidates undertake to carry out the work of transforming their PhD into a book within a reasonable deadline.

Winner of the Michael Werner Prize 2023

The winner of the 2023 Michael Werner Prize is Margot Lyautey, PhD graduate in history from the EHESS and Universität Tübingen for her PhD on “Apprendre de l'occupant ? Modernisation de l'agriculture française entre 1940 et 1944 : acteurs, influences, potentialités’”, supervised by Christophe Bonneuil and Johannes Großmann.

Previous prize-winners.

2021 Gwendoline Cicottini for her PhD: Relations interdites, enfants oubliés ? Les relations entre femmes allemandes et prisonniers de guerre français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

2019 Hadrien Clouet for his PhD on: Part-time work offices. Temporal transactions in the German and French public employment services.

2017 Martin Baloge for his PhD on: Untangling the skein of political representation. Wealth taxes in France’s National Assembly and the Bundestag.

2013 Karim Fertikh for his PhD on: The Bad Godesberg Congress: a contribution to a social history of political programmes.

2011 Ayse Yuva for her PhD on: The effectiveness of philosophy in times of revolution: principles of government, education and public opinion in France and Germany (1794-1815).