The CNRS initiates bilateral dialogues with major international research organizations through “PhD Joint Programmes”. Each selected joint project will provide funding for a 3-year PhD scholarship, and mobility between France and the partner country.
For each project, there will be two PI – one from the CNRS and one from the partner institution – and two PhD students, one from the CNRS UMR and one from the partner university. CNRS doctoral contracts are due to start in autumn 2024.
These calls are open to all disciplines, although certain thematic priorities are highlighted in some calls.
PhD Joint Programmes 2023
Eligibility : staff from CNRS units
Disciplines: The theme for this year’s call is Transformational Science and Technology. The call is intended to be open to all areas of science, technology, engineering and medicine.
Deadline : CLOSED
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines:
Social Sciences and Humanities
Physical biology of emerging model organisms
Quantum Information Sciences
Deadline : closed
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines: all
Deadline : Closed
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines: Priority will be given to projects based on the thematic axes of the CNRS-USP International Research Centre: humanities and social sciences; ecology and environmental sciences; earth and ocean sciences; computer science; biological sciences; quantum technologies; and agriculture and decarbonization.
Deadline: Closed
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines:
- Social Sciences;
- Data-driven interdisciplinary challenges in Earth observation and the environment;
- AI for science, science for AI;
- Energy transition
Areas of interest will also include collaborative projects with CNRS-UTokyo international research laboratories (LIMMS, JFLI, ILANCE, DYNACOM and FJLMI).
Deadline : Friday January 12, 2024
Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Deadline : Monday 29 January 2024