LCEL Early Career Scholars Visiting Programme at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg (January to June 2027; Allowance up to EUR 1,800 per month)

The Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL) at the University of Luxembourg has opened a call (published 2 October 2026) for its Early Career Scholars Visiting Programme. The Centre wants to support early career scholars who would benefit from its research environment, whether to conclude a manuscript, a PhD thesis or an article, or to refine the first ideas of a research project.

Visitors get exchanges with international colleagues working in related fields, access to the LCEL Library, and proximity to the EU institutions located in Luxembourg. The Centre's primary focus is the law of the European Union.

Where funding from the host institution is not available, the LCEL offers a limited number of scholarships for research stays at the Centre of one month between January and June 2027.

• Monthly allowance of up to EUR 1,800 as reimbursement for daily expenses.
• In exceptional cases, and on request, accommodation costs may also be reimbursed, up to a maximum of EUR 1,200 for one month.

The presence of funded visitors at the Centre during the funding period is compulsory.

• Early career researchers: advanced PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers, assistant professors or equivalent, working in the law of the European Union.
• Post-doctoral researchers and assistant professors or equivalent are expected to demonstrate a solid research track record.
• Proficiency in English is compulsory, but the call is open to scholars writing their work in other languages.
• Scholars based in Luxembourg are not eligible. The call sets no nationality restriction, so researchers based in India working on EU law may apply.

• EU constitutional law, judicial protection and governance
• Geopolitics and the EU's external relations, including CFSP, trade and external dimensions of the internal market
• Nature and sustainability
• Regulation of digital markets and artificial intelligence
• Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and financial regulation

• A cover letter (max. 1 page) stating the motivation, how the research topic relates to the Centre's mission, and the desired time frame for the stay (between January and June 2027).
• An up-to-date CV, including publications.
• A summary of the research project to be undertaken at the Centre (max. 2 pages), including subject, description and work plan.
• Two letters of recommendation (for PhD researchers, one must be from the supervisor).
• Where applicable, a letter from the home institution declaring lack of funding for the research stay.
• Post-doctoral researchers and assistant professors or equivalent must include a copy of one of their publications.

Visitors are expected to take part in the Centre's activities and present their work at an LCEL Guest Forum. They can use the Centre's library, attend its scholarly events and interact with its researchers. For longer stays, visitors are also expected to produce a substantial, publishable scholarly contribution and to contribute to the Centre's research paper series.

Email the required documents, in English, to lcel.ext.staff@uni.lu by 15 November 2026. Applications will be reviewed promptly, and selection decisions will be announced by the beginning of December 2026.