As an individual member: 

- You can give a paper at the biennial EFACIS conferences to which members have excusive access. 

- You also have exclusive access to the International PhD Seminars alternatingly organised by the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague. 

- Your PhD students can participate in the International PhD Seminars where they get lectures and feedback to their own work, they hone a series of academic skills and become part of a world-wide academic network. They may be eligible for an EFACIS grant (either to the PhD seminar or to the EFACIS conference) as well.

- Each member has exclusive access to pdf copies of the issues of Irish Studies in Europe (ISE).

- Members can take part in translation projects such as the Yeats Project, the Banville Translation Project, Aistriú or the Anne Enright Translation Project where scholars and authors from all over the world translate works of Irish authors into their own language or provide comments on those works (including a peer-review of the translations and comments).

- EFACIS facilitates connecting with other Irish Studies scholars, from professors to PhD candidates. This offers the possibility to work on joint projects or to find a colleague to review your new publication on the internationally peer-reviewed open access journal RISE. 

- Members can put up notifications on the EFACIS website and via our bimonthly newsletter (or have the EFACIS coordinator do it for them).

- Members can advertise events they (co-)organized through the EFACIS website and all other EFACIS social media platforms. 

 

As an EFACIS Centre of Irish Studies*: 

- EFACIS centres have the right to take part in the Irish Itinerary, Europe’s largest tour of Irish artists travelling the continent to present their work to an interested public (for reasons of funding received from Culture Ireland this is possible for centres outside of Ireland only).

- Members affiliated to EFACIS Centres pay a reduced membership fee of €15.

- You have the opportunity to post information about your centre and its members on the EFACIS website and have a personalised Centre of Irish Studies page.

- You have access to the Map of Irish Studies in Europe, which provides an overview of teaching and research in Irish Studies across the continent. 

 

*An EFACIS Centre of Irish Studies consists of minimally 5 academically active persons, colleagues and/or PhDs interested in Irish Studies or 4 academics and 1 representative of a local cultural organisation.