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.
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).

Eligibility criteria
These grants aim to promote mobility with the arrival in a new environment. The PhD traineeship will be conducted in an institution:
-where the candidate does not yet work
-outside the home country
-outside the country in which the university were conducted.
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:  July 12, 2013.

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 is to find a host laboratory :
-See the proposed PhD traineeship in the Institut Pasteur International Network (not exhaustive)
-You can also contact the institutes from RIIP or contact Eliane Coëffier

Online applications

• 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

One call for proposals a year :
- Call for PhD traineeship proposals: January 30, 2013
- Opening of the application period: March, 2013
- Deadline for application: July 12, 2013
- Meeting of the Selection committee: beginning of September 2013
- Notification of the selected candidate: mid of October 2012

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