TANDEM Programme (CEFRES)
The TANDEM Programme is implemented within the framework of the so-called CEFRES Platform, which provides a framework for cooperation between the Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the French Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES).
The programme focuses on research in the humanities and social sciences and aims to bring together two researchers—one from the Czech Academy of Sciences and one from the CNRS—for a joint two-year research project leading to the submission of an application for a prestigious European or international grant, such as an ERC, Horizon Europe, ANR, or a similar funding scheme. Financial support is provided to cover the personnel costs of the researcher from the Czech Academy of Sciences, while the CNRS researcher applies for their own funding in accordance with the rules and procedures of the French side.
The French Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) has been based in Prague since 1991. It is a member of the network of French research institutes abroad and, since 2007, has also operated as a service and research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS). Since December 2015, CEFRES has been located on the premises of the Czech Academy of Sciences at Na Florenci 3 in Prague. Each year, the Centre hosts young researchers from France and the Visegrád Group countries, thereby contributing to the development of education and research in an interdisciplinary and international environment.
6th TANDEM Programme Call – planned launch in spring 2027
Approved projects
Within the call for application for the TANDEM project to be implemented from February 1, 2026, to January 31, 2028, the project by researcher Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė, Ph.D. (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i.) and Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon / CEFRES) titled Paper Bonds. Bookmaking for kin, friends and the self in Europe and the Middle East was selected for support.
In January 2022, the project of researchers Michèle Baussant (CNRS) and Johanny Wyss (Institute of Ethnology of the CAS) entitled Europe: A Resentful Confederation of Vanquished People? Raw and lapsed memories of post-imperial (European) minorities, ended. The project was realised in the period 2/2020–1/2022. This TANDEM was also successful and its investigator, Johana Wyss, received an ERC grant of €1.5 million, making her the seventh woman among 54 Czech elite scientists who have received the most prestigious European grant to date - see an article.
At the beginning of 2020, the project called Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmpolitics of Hunt in Europe and Beyond of researchers Mgr. Luděk Brož, MPhil., Ph.D. (Institute of Ethnology of the CAS) and Virginie Vaté, Ph.D. (CNRS) ended. An article in French about the project was published in the CNRS bulletin (May 2019), page 10. The success of the project is also proved by the fact that one of the researchers, Luděk Brož, received one of the most prestigious forms of scientific support: the ERC €2 million consolidation grant in 2019. The ERC consolidation grant will be used over the next five years to continue the research of the relationship between hunters, boars, and biosafety.
Contact person: Ms Denisa Zemanová.