Paris region PhD 2026: permet de financer des allocations doctorales sur des projets portés par un établissement d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche francilien en partenariat avec une structure du monde socio-économique établie en Île-de-France.

L’appel est ouvert à tous les laboratoires, souhaitant accueillir un doctorant dont le projet de recherche comporte une dimension numérique et s’inscrit dans une des thématiques suivantes :

A- Impact du changement climatique et des évènements exceptionnels (vent, canicules…) sur le bâti et l’infrastructure.

B- Prévention en santé (dont santé mentale, maladies infectieuses…)

C- Innovation pédagogique et usage du numérique dans l’enseignement et la formation (scolaire et supérieur)

D- Modèles économiques et organisationnels des transitions énergétique, numérique, écologique…

E- Impacts de la nouvelle carte des transports franciliens sur les dynamiques territoriales (grand Paris express et nouvelles lignes RER)

Application available until March 23rd, 2026.

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The Université de Paris that hosts the FIRE PhD program has listed many sources of possible funding for a PhD in France.

The iEDU has published a summary of diverse funding opportunities on its website and offers a newsletter to keep informed. Listed fundings concern Master or PhD students, postdocs, researchers, etc.

International fellowships of Université de Paris. 42-month PhD contract, including a budget envelope for international mobility, for PhD students who didn't spend more than 1 year in France during the last 3 years. A list of the subjects is given by the University.

Application between February and March last year, new dates for 2021 will be added soon..

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Doctoral contract FRM: the doctoral school can propose 1 PhD subject dedicated to any research topic in Biology or Health sciences. Please contact us and send online your FIRE application (the candidate letters and the recommendation letters could be provided later) before March 12th, 2025 if you wish to apply.

The FRM also offers the "Prix de thèse en cardiologie Béziat-Rouanet". The doctoral school can propose 1 candidate whose PhD subject is related to any cardiac or vascular pathology. The application procedure is the same as for the FRM doctoral contract.

Please note that one candidate can only apply to the "Contrat doctoral FRM" OR to the "Prix de thèse en cardiologie Béziat-Rouanet".

The Pasteur Paris-University (PPU) international doctoral program offers financial support to PhD candidates who didn't study, work or reside in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to their recruitment.

The call is open every year in September, the year before the wished start of the PhD.

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The Fondation pour l'Audition offers PhD grants to French to ORL medical interns, graduated speech-language pathologists and audioprosthesists.

Application aivailable until January 27th, 2020.

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The Fondation Vaincre Alzheimer offers PhD grants for basic, translational and clinical research that studies the underlying mechanisms of, and possible therapeutic treatments for (specific) dementia(s).

Application aivailable until January 31st, 2020.

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The Association Huntington France offers one PhD grants for research dedicated to the Huntington disease.

Application aivailable until April 1st, 2020.

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Campus France – Bourses d’Excellence Eiffel. Grants for 18 months maximum for non-French PhD students doing their PhD in co-direction with France.

Application available until January 8th. For 2026, application will open again in October 2025.

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The City of Paris, through CIFRE (industrial conventions for research) contracts, hosts PhD students whose reserarch topics are related to challenges the city is facing. All the disciplines are eligible. A list of particularly important questions for the City has been established but is not limiting the subjects that could be proposed.

Application available until March 10th, 2020.

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The French Ministery of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, in partnership with l'Institut des Amériques, offer several doctoral contracts (for a PhD starting in 2021 and finishing in 2024) for projects between a French university and one of the following in America:

• University of Chicago
• Georgetown Univeristy
• Universidad de Costa Rica
• Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Institut d'Etudes Avancées, Universidade de São Paulo

Application available until March 2nd, 2020.

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Inria and Inserm fund between 2 and 4 doctoral contracts for PhD students co-supervised in these two institutions, on a subject related to Digital health. The project must include a digital or applied mathematics dimension (modelling, simulation, analysis, learning...) on the Inria side, and a biomedical question from the Inserm side.

Application is open until May 14th, 2021. It has to be sent directly to contact-theses-inserm-inria@inria.fr.

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The French national program PAUSE is funding 3 doctoral contrats for students who start a PhD in France because they are in danger and forced into exile.

Are eligible: students who were not enrolled yet in a PhD in France and who didn't start a PhD in their home country more than one year ago.

Application is open until April, 13th, 2021.

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C-BRAINS international PhD program neuroscience & cognitive science in Ile-de-France. Open to students who are currently enrolled in a Master program outside France.

Application deadline: January 29, 2024.

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Cité du Genre is offering a doctoral contract (2023-2026) to support research topics addressing gender inequalities thanks to crossed approaches in Social sciences and Humanities (e.g. sociology, psychology, history, language sciences, education sciences...) and Natural Sciences (e.g. neurosciences, digital sciences, mathematics, chemistry...).

Deadline to submit a research thematics: January 15th, 2023.

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The Marion Elizabeth Brancher Funds financially supports research, both fundamental or applied, on stem cells in the cardiac or vascular domains. It delivers PhD and postdoctoral grants in addition to the Marion Elizabeth Brancher Prize.

Deadline to submit an application: March 29th, 2024.

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The "Women's Health, Couples' Health" Priority Research Program and Equipment is designed to enable the implementation of the research actions set out in the National Strategy to Combat endometriosis and in the Report on the Causes of Infertility . This program is designed to support research into the fundamental mechanisms involved, as well as clinical, epidemiological and human and social science research, and to pave the way for key innovations in this field.

Deadline to submit an application: May 15th, 2024.

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ADEME (Agency for the ecological transitions) launches a 2025 call for PhD applications in one of the following fields:

• environments and ressources
• circular economy
• energy and industrial systems
• society and ecological transition

For the PhD, a 50% cofunding is required.

Deadline to submit an application: March 24th, 2025.

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As part of the CAP BIOSPACE project, winner of the France 2030 plan's Skills and Jobs of the Future program, we are inviting proposals for thesis topics. Led by the University of Bordeaux, the CAP BIOSPACE project aims to develop knowledge and teaching in the biology of extreme environments, whether space or terrestrial. You are receiving this message because your university is a partner in the CAP BIOSPACE project and is therefore eligible for co-financing for future doctoral students.

Thesis supervisors wishing to propose a topic for a thesis to be started between October 1 and December 15, 2026, are invited to submit their proposal before January 22, 2026, inclusive, for 50% co-funding.

For further information and to send applications, please contact: cma.cap.biospace@u-bordeaux.fr