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Recruitment to Junior Professorship Chair

Recruitment published during 2024 – From 2 april 10 : 00 am to 2 may 2024, 4 : 00 (Paris time)

The Law on Research Programming has created a new type of pre-tenure-track position.

Junior Professorship Chair are a new way of recruiting on the basis of a research and teaching project allowing, at the end of the term, between 3 and 6 years, and after evaluation of the scientific value and professional aptitude of the agent by an evaluation commission, access to a tenure-track position of university professors and assimilated or of director of research.

Requirements for applicants:

Hold a doctorate or an equivalent degree (upon recognition by UL Scientific Committee).

In addition, it is recommended:

• To have completed at least 3 years of scientific activity after the PhD thesis,
• For holders of a doctorate in France, to have a significant experience of mobility abroad (at least two years).

List of supporting documents to be attached to the application

Your application file, consisting of the application form entered online, must include the following items:

• An official identity document with a photography;
• A document certifying that you hold a PhD, or an equivalent degree (whose equivalence must be recognized by the University of Lorraine Scientific Committee);
• The PhD examination report, or a certificate from the institution stating that no examination report has been drawn up;
• An analytical presentation of the works, books, articles, achievements and activities related to the profile of the Junior Professorship Chair tenure-track position in question, mentioning those that the candidate intends to present at the audition;
• A copy of each of the works, books, articles and achievements mentioned in the analytical presentation and which the candidate intends to present at the audition, not exceeding six documents.

Administrative documents, as well as the examination report, written in whole or in part in a foreign language, must be accompanied by a French translation, the conformity of which the candidate certifies on his or her honor. Failing this, the application will be declared inadmissible.

Translation of the analytical presentation is optional, and foreign-language works, books, articles and achievements may be accompanied by a French-language summary.

Candidates who are or have been for less than eighteen months a teacher-researcher at a level equivalent to that of the post to be filled, in a higher education institution in a country other than France, must indicate this status.

Applications must be submitted on the Galaxie platform (FIDIS module – When searching for positions, Junior Professorships will be distinguished from others by the recruitment article (JPC).) according to the calendar.

Any application incomplete by the above-mentioned deadline will be declared inadmissible.

Only those candidates who have been selected by the recruitment committee on the basis of their applications will be invited to the audition.

Junior Professorship Chair 2024:

• The calendar
• Decree n° 2021-1710 – CPJ
• The chair of junior professor application form