Fellowships

Doctoral grants, Calmette Programme:  for a thesis within the Institut Pasteur International Network


Objective
The Institut Pasteur International Division finances two doctoral fellowships per year, for a duration of three years, to allow students to realize their doctoral training in an institute of the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) except metropolitan France.
This fellowship aims at promoting and facilitating the realization of doctorate trainings of French and foreign researchers in a laboratory from the RIIP. This may apply to standard or jointly-supervised theses.
These doctoral grants are intended to promote mobility. The doctoral training must be performed outside its home country or outside the country in which the university studies were conducted.

Fellowship areas may include all themes developed in the laboratories of the RIIP: research on the infectious diseases (infectious physiopathology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, parasitology) and health service activities (surveillance, resistance).

The applicant must have a Master 2 or equivalent degree. Candidates who have already started their thesis can not apply.

Duration
This doctoral fellowship will be awarded for a duration of 3 years

Application deadline: September 7, 2012.

Evaluation Criteria
A Selection committee will decide on the allocation of this doctoral fellowship according to the relevance of the project, the goals of the training and on the file of the candidates.

The first step of the application is to find a host lab in the RIIP (http://www.pasteur-international.org). See also proposals for internships.

Application procedure
- Traineeship Grant application form including:
  • The description of the thesis project (2 pages maximum) including context, problematics, objectives and working program (activities, waiting results and schedule)
  • Applicant’s curriculum vitae (1 page)
  • Presentation of previous research studies and results obtained (2 pages maximum)
  • Chronological list of scientific publications with copies of the most significant publications (preferably in RTF or PDF format). Mention only publication published in reviews with editorial reviewers, not mention the submitted publications or publications in progress.
  • The applicant must indicate whether s/he has already received a fellowship from a French or international organisation in 2008 to 2010, and whether s/he has applied for any other fellowships in 2011 and, if so, at which institution(s). The applicant must provide general information on personal resources.
  • Elements on the institute, the team and the supervisor (2 pages maximum) knowing that pre-required asked are the following ones:
    - the supervisor : publications, an experience on the subject (or the methods) proposed for the thesis and, if possible, an HDR; the commitment that he will be in post for all the thesis duration;
    - the team : a "sufficient" size (a single researcher cannot constitute a team);
    - the institute: conditions of employment (scientific materials and environment) suited
  • Letter of commitment from the director of the host laboratory to provide assistance to the applicant as needed and specifying the name, qualifications and position of the researcher who will be supervising the applicant.
  • Supporting letter from the applicant’s Supervisor and\or the responsible for the doctoral School on which will depend the candidate
Required documents to be sent by email to boursesRIIP@pasteur.fr, Eliane Coëffier

Calendar
One call for proposals a year :
- Opening of the application period: January 31, 2012
- Deadline for application: September 7, 20112
- Meeting of the Selection committee: end of September 2012
- Notification of the selected candidate: mid of October 2012

Contact
Eliane Coëffier, PhD, Project Manager, International Division, Institut Pasteur
eliane.coeffier@pasteur.fr