Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche
In France, an ATER, Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche (EN: Non-Tenured Teaching and Research Associate), is a teaching and research fellow hired on a limited-time and limited-renewal contract type in French higher education, requiring, among others, the engagement to compete for a civil servant position (with no specification of date). References

Education in France