Housing Assistance


As for French students, France offers to international students a housing assistance. However, they will  have to provide a residence permit valid for more than four months, valid for the current academic year. The processing files can exceed three months, so it is advisable for foreign students to postulate before the obtention of their residence permit.

• Scholarships from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Scholarships of the Ministry of National Education of Higher Education and Research
• Scholarships offered in the framework of European programs
• The scholarships of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
• The scholarships of international institutions, non-governmental organizations, foundations.
• Scholarships of Local Authorities

Cité internationale Universitaire de Paris

To know everything about this residence divided into 40 houses bearing names of countries, visit the website. For information on entrance requirements, click here


The association of PhD students and doctors at the University Paris Descartes


The association Les Cartésiens was formally established at the end of March 2010. It aims to create a multidisciplinary network of doctors, and facilitate mutual aid and integration into the workplace.
This association also includes former doctoral students of the University Paris Descartes.
To see the Association website The Cartesians: click here
 

The Paris Descartes University creates the Paris Descartes Foundation


Chaired by Martine Aiach, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, The Paris Descartes Foundation aims to strengthen the university in its main missions of training and research and allow it to be more open to the City.
Information on the Foundation's, its  first projects in research and training, tax benefits for donors, are available on its website


Interesting links:

www.colocation.fr
www.campusfrance.org
www.cnous.fr

 

 


University of Manchester offer studentships


A number of Connectionists relevant PhD studentships are offered by the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences at the University of Manchester. Prospective students *from EU member states* are encouraged to contact the projects' supervisors directly.

Novel measures of cortical functional connectivity using EEG steady-state responses

Real Time Electrophysiological Model of Ongoing Pain for Neurofeedback Applications

Speeding up the brain - how does repetitive stimulation speed up brain processes
 

Useful documents

Some useful documents below

Choose France Choose France life 2016 life 2016 Cifre informations Cifre informations Cifre Cifre France-us_exchange_program_booklet France-us exchange program booklet

Financial aids from the Ile-de-France Region

The Ile-de-France Region provides financial support to international mobility to students (AMIE and AMIE BTS) as well as doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships (ARDoC and Appels à projets DIM).

More information

Cifre, Industrial Agreement for Training through Research

 

(source : the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)


The CIFRE program (Convention Industrielle de Formation par la Recherche) is a partnership between a French company, a laboratory and a graduate student.
Companies receive financial support to recruit PhD students whose research projects, conducted in conjunction with academic thesis supervisor, will lead to a thesis defence.

More information about Cifre

PhD Offers in France

Access offers (PhD, Master's & Posdoc training) & the directory of Doctoral Schools at http://ecolesdoctorales.campusfrance.org/en/phd/dschools/main

USA-France Exchange Programs

 

The Office for Science and Technology’s mission propose fostering cooperation projects between actors of research and technology transfer on both sides of the Atlantic, such as NIDA-INSERM Program, France-USA Bilateral Funds and Fulbright Fellowship.

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NIDA-INSERM Program

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) have established a binational postdoctoral research exchange fellowship program. NIDA will support up to two fellowships for French scientists to work in the United States with a current NIDA grantee, and Inserm will support up to two awards for U.S. scientists to work in France with a mentor at an Inserm research unit or center.
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France-USA Bilateral Funds : UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, MIT, Stanford

The partnerships between the French Government and four American universities (UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, MIT and Stanford) promote scholarly exchanges through annual grant competitions. These funds provide seed-money for innovative, bi-national collaborative research. More information at :
France-Berkeley: fbf.berkeley.edu
France-Chicago: faccts.uchicago.edu/index.shtml
MIT-France: mit.edu/mit-france
France-Stanford: francestanford.stanford.edu

Fulbright Fellowship
This program promotes the mobility of American researchers by allowing them to Conduct research in any discipline of the humanities, social sciences or pure and applied sciences and collaborate with colleagues at French research centers and institutes of higher education. Participants are highly encouraged to participate in conferences and workshops as well as conduct seminars in order to share their research experience with the host institution.
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