Research Units

The Écoles françaises à l’étranger (EFE), five public institutions under the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space organised as a network, offer students and researchers multiple opportunities to develop international field research in all areas of the humanities and social sciences.

Join the réseux des EFE on Monday 1 December from 5.30pm at the ENS in Paris, Dussane Room.

The EFEO library in Paris is open at its usual times, from Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.
Please make your book reservation requests via the catalogue, and your archive consultation requests via the form on https://archives.efeo.fr/ (bottom left of the home page).

Consult the catalogs and digital tools:
Books and periodicals catalog
- Archives and manuscripts catalog
- Digital heritage library

Please check the EFEO's Facebook page and Twitter account regularly for any updates to the conditions of public access.

The inauguration of the new EFEO Centre, the "Fudan-EFEO Centre for Humanities", on the campus of Fudan University took place on 17 November 2025 in the presence of Nicolas Fiévé, Director of the EFEO, Guillaume Dutournier, Head of the new centre, representatives of the French Embassy in China and several colleagues from the School. They were welcomed by Mr. Chen Zhimin, Vice-President of Fudan, Mr. Ge Zhaoguang, Director of the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan, and Ms. Lu Li'an.

On November 13, 2025, Nicolas Fiévé had the pleasure of meeting with Professor Lê Văn Lợi, President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

On November 12, 2025, Nicolas Fiévé traveled to Hanoi to meet with Rector Hoàng Anh Tuấn of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and sign a new collaboration agreement.

As part of the ANR ChEDiL collaborative research project (Project ANR-23-CE27-0008), the EFEO is inviting applications for a position as a database and digital infrastructure engineer.

The call for applications is open until 9 November 2025.

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