HOW TO APPLY ?
First you must choose your phD project (1 single project per candidate) and then prepare your candidature with your future supervisor in the hosting lab (and he must give you his recommendation letter).
You may find ideas for your thesis subject among the labs' proposals on our website or else prepare a new one with any Paris region laboratory.
Then you must apply on line (sending all mandatory information and uploads) before the April 16th 2012 deadline.
Applications are now open (deadline 16/4/2012) : access to the online form
A few things to know :
When filling up the 8 steps of application form, you will be asked the following information (in english mostly) :
1. Your personal information, contact details
2. Your project and your potential funding
3. Your supervisor, hosting laboratory (paris region mandatory), team and lab team's graduate school
+ Your second supervisor if any
4. Your path and education, languages
5. Your previous research experience, personal publications if any
6. Your scientific interests, subjects and methodologies you wish to study
7. Your motivation (why and how you chose your PhD subject, lab team, why you want to join the FdV PhD program, your personal approach to interdisciplinarity) + your choice of FdV courses for your first year in the PhD program (based on our academic program)
8. Mandatory uploads :
- Project description (in English) of up to 3 pages : abstract (English and French), Introduction, Objectives, Experimental and/or modelling venues, perspectives.
- List of 5 most significant relevant publications of the PhD supervisor
- Your 2 recommendation letters : the first one from your PhD supervisor and the second one from a scientist of your choice.
- Your curriculum vitae
- A recent passport photo
9. The Overview step will show you how advanced your application is, with green signals for step completed, or red alerts for missing information.
On step 1 you will create your personal account and then receive by email your account details that will allow you to come back to the application form.
If you need to postpone the data capture, you can "save and quit" on any step, that will bring you back to the summary page.
Once logged in, you may navigate between the different steps of the application form to complete what needs to be.
Texts should not be copied and pasted from word or pdf documents but you can use a neutral text editor such as notepad (PC) or text edit (Mac).
When you submit your data with the "save" buttons, each step is saved independantly and the overview panorama allows you to visualize incomplete steps.
You may come back and complete/correct your application until the deadline April 30th 2010.
Should you have additional questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
REMINDER : to be accepted, your application must be completely fullfilled online (mandatory uploads included) before the deadline : Monday April 16th 2012 at 23h59
CALL FOR STUDENTS APPLICATIONS
The FdV European interdisciplinary PhD program, from the Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot Universities, launches the call for PhD candidates.
Eligibility
M.Sc. degree or equivalent, this typically include 5 years of higher education, or contributions to scientific publications.
Selection
The PhD program Council selects and eventually attributes fundings to the candidates adutionned by the Insernational Scientific Committee. The main criteria for selection of students are :
The candidates that already have found themselves a funding will also be auditioned by the International Scientific Commitee that will decide of their eligibilty to the FdV PhD program.
Funding
The FdV PhD program is supported by many institutions that are offering fellowships to students according to their ranking after the auditions. This include fellowships from the Universities (doctoral contracts), INRA Young scientists contracts, other institutions (regions, foundations, ...).
Since the doctoral school will not be able to support all the eligible candidates (around 10 out of the 25 students admitted every year), students and their supervisors are encouraged to apply independently to funding available from other institutions, to insure the eligible candidate to be admitted in the FdV program.
Introduction to the Paris Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity integrated PhD program
CRI (Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity) is a centre part of the Paris V Descartes and Paris VII Diderot universities, themed around life sciences, and committed to educate creative interdisciplinary researchers created in 2005 in order to break through the traditional post-graduate education status quo where disciplines are separated and not creating new approaches.
The CRI sits at the center of Paris, left bank of the Seine, where many of the french higher education and research institutions are located. The CRI houses interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs (Master AIV, FdV PhD program), and commits itself to nurture the best interdisciplinary research talents in Europe. For the past 5 years, through a international scientific committee composed of world famous experts, hundreds of graduates students have been selected from applicants across the world. The center is mostly funded by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation which is one of the largest private philanthropic in France, and provides the students with ample opportunities to interact with world-class scientists and to interact among themselves to find research subjects they're interested in. They do their research in the densely located higher education and research establishment in Paris, and 36 of them have published 84 papers on journals including "Nature" and "Science".
Considering the differences in graduate education regimes between Europe, America and China, the CRI decided to set up an integrated PhD program (CRI integrated PhD program) based on the AIV and FdV programs, to the convenience of international applicants. The integrated PhD program consisted of 4 years: the first year is integrated with AIV-Master 2. Besides taking AIV courses, the students have to join 3 different laboratories to do a 3-month internships with each lab. At the end of the first year, through the AIV courses and internship, the student would chose a lab within Paris, supervisors and subject for the PhD thesis, and submits the project proposal. The proposals are screened by the international scientific committee in June, and students pass through oral auditions to obtain the validation of the research project. For the following 3 years, the validated students work on their thesis under the guidance of the supervisors and a thesis advisory commitee, and participate to the courses of the FdV program to train them as young researchers. Thesis defense after three years grants a doctoral degree of Paris Descartes or Paris Diderot universities.
How to apply ?
Considering the requirements to obtain a CSC (China Scholarship Council) scholarship, CRI Integrated PhD Program is preparing for special admission procedures for chinese students.
The procedure consists of two steps : online registration and interview.
The applicant has to complete the application form (download the Word document), submit transcripts, recommendation letters and other documents according to the requirements on the application form and send the application as a single PDF file to our secretary :
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After the online registration, the applicant will be screened by the International Scientific Committee.
The applicants who passed the initial step will then be invited for an interview in Beijing in February.