Application and Fees
Application guidelines
Applications can be submitted from March 24 to May 18 using ConfTool. When applying, a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation (500-700 words) is to be uploaded as one PDF-file. In their motivation letter applicants should a) indicate their research interests, b) specify the workshop(s) of their choice c) justify their choice by explaining their hopes and expectations. If you decide to apply for the DARIAH scholarship, please explain why in a specific letter. Applicants also need to declare that an allocated place will be taken up.
As the selection of participants is made by the Scientific Committee together with the experts who lead the workshops, the CV and the letter of motivation are to be presented in English. As the Summer University is supposed to be multilingual the curriculum needs to contain information about the knowledge of languages.
Preference will be given to students and scholars of the Humanities and Social Sciences who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way in their motivation letter.
Students and scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow, and to support their expectations from the summer university with good arguments.
Applicants who would like to present a project during one of the project presentation sessions or during the poster session should upload a seperate file with the description of the project (500-700 words) in English when they apply for a place at the Summer University via ConfTool. The presentation of a project is not a prerequisite for a successful application.
DARIAH scholarships
For this 2025 edition of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities, we are pleased to announce that we have established a partnership with DARIAH, the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. DARIAH will offer 12 scholarships of 450 Euros each to cover the costs of applicants coming to Besançon. To apply to the scholarship, applicants will be asked to specify in a specific letter that they apply for the DARIAH scholarship and to explain how the scholarship will help them joining the ESU.
Important dates
Selected applicants will receive a confirmation by the end of May. More information on payment possibilities will be published in May.
Fees
The fees include tuition (workshops and lectures), teaching material, delegate bag, certificate of attendance, and coffee breaks. You can enjoy free lunches at the university restaurant during the week. The communal dinners in the schedule are also free. However, you have to pay for drinks and extra servings / dishes yourself. Fees do not cover travel, accommodation and other subsistence costs.
The fees vary according to the different status of the participants:
- Master and PhD students with no employment & no scholarship, from Université Marie et Louis Pasteur and official partner universities (Stars EU Alliance, Erasmus and Inter-University Agreements) 400 €
- Young scholars from Université Marie et Louis Pasteur and official partner universities* 500 €
- Faculty / staff from Université Marie et Louis Pasteur and official partner universities 700 €
- Master and PhD students with no employment and no scholarship 500 €
- Young scholars (employed)* 700 €
- Faculty / staff 1100 €
- Staff of a commercial organisation / institutions 1600 €
*For example, students pursuing a doctoral or postdoctoral degree who are hired on non-tenure-track positions or receive scholarships to found their research.