Founded in 1846 and the first foreign institute to be established in Greece, the École française d'Athènes is a centre of advanced research whose core mandate is the study of Greece in its Balkan and Mediterranean contexts, from its prehistory to the present.  ​

This mission is accompanied by the training of a new generation of academics, facilitating early-career researchers’ access to the field and culture of Greece and supporting their integration within a high-level international professional context.

Each year the École française d'Athènes gives out around sixty scholarships, for one to two months (exceptionally, for longer periods).

Candidates must be enrolled in doctoral studies and be carrying out research that requires them to spend time in Greece, and which is related to one of the following fields: Aegean prehistory and protohistory, the ancient Greek world, and in some cases the Balkan, medieval, modern and contemporary Greek world.