Boosting the visibility of the Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Program and 2018 call for proposals

The Pasteur - Paris University International Doctoral Program (PPU) attracts outstanding international students, most of who are in the top 5-10% of their classes in their home countries. The program is strongly supported by our President, Christian Bréchot, who would like to see it grow.

The call for the candidates will be open from September 13th until November 2nd, with the listing of available projects and laboratories on our website.

If you are interested in the recruitment of a student for October 2018, you are invited to fill out and send to phd@pasteur.fr  the appropriate form, indicating the subject of the thesis project (please ask the form to phd@pasteur.fr).
Forms will continue to be accepted from now through September 4. First come, first served: the sooner that we receive the form, the closer to the top of the website list it will appear!

 

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Teams that already have chosen a candidate can tell us to not put the announcement on the PPU website but must still send us the form indicating their desire to recruit a student into the program.

This doctoral program is for students who have obtained or will obtain the Master degree or equivalent in a foreign University. The eligibility criteria do not exclude a student internship period in France (less of 1 year!!), including at the Institut Pasteur.

The host lab must be affiliated with a Doctoral School of the Universities Paris Descartes (Paris 5), Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris Diderot (Paris 7), or Paris Sud (Paris11). Each scientist with an HDR (and the approval of the unité director) may propose a project for a PPU student. A scientist who is in the process of obtaining his or her HDR may serve as co-advisor. The PPU program follows the rules of the universities concerning the number of students per HDR.

Scientists who have successfully recruited a student for the PPU, PPU-EMHE, PPU-CNBG program in the 2 previous calls cannot submit an application this year.

Supervisor may apply at the same time to the call of the PPU-EHME program that soon will be open. In November, supervisors will be asked to choose between the two programs/candidates.

This year we propose also a call for the PPU-CNBG program. Similarly to the PPU-EHME program, CNBG (the biggest pharmaceutical company in China) will select for us few candidates who will contact you. Later the selection of the candidates retained by you will be completed by videoconferences and 2 students will be accepted. PPU-CNBG students will participate to all the activities proposed for the PPU students, but they will be employees by CNBG. Scientists who want their projects participating also to the PPU-CNBG call, must indicate that in the appropriate form (to ask to phd@pasteur.fr). Again in November, supervisors will be asked to choose between the different programs/candidates.

Scientists with their own funding for a student (ERC, ANR, Labex, etc) may propose their project to the PPU and retain flexibility in the use of the funds: if one of the students who respond to the PPU call is chosen by you and approved by the PPU Admissions Committee you may pay him/her from your own source. If a good foreign student responds but is not approved by the Committee, you still have the right to enroll him/her via the traditional method in the university. And if, in the meantime, you find an excellent French student who you prefer, you may cancel your PPU project. Please contact the PPU office for financial details.

The final application, prepared jointly by the chosen applicant and the host lab, with a more detailed project description, will be due by November 13, 2017.

Should you require more information, please contact us at phd@pasteur.fr, or visit our web site.