Improving visibility of the international program and a new 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. You are kindly requested to forward the attached flyer to your world-wide colleagues, asking them to encourage talented students to apply.
 
The next call will open on Friday, September 12 with the listing of available projects and laboratories.
 
If you are interested in the recruitment of a student for October 2017, you are invited those, to send to phd@pasteur.fr the attached form, indicating the subject of the thesis project. Forms will continue to be accepted from now through September 2. First come, first served: the sooner that we receive the form, the closer to the top of the website list it will appear!
 
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).
 
Supervisor may apply at the same time to the call of the PPU-EHME program that soon will be open. Later in November, supervisors will be asked to choose between the two programs/candidates.
Scientists who last year have successfully recruited a student for the program PPU-EHME can submit an application this year for the classical PPU program.
 
Each scientist with an HDR (and the approval of the unité director) may propose a project for a PPU student. However, scientists who have successfully recruited a student for the program in the 2 previous calls cannot submit an application this year. The student’s advisor must have an HDR; 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 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 student applicant and the host lab, with a more detailed project description, will be due by November 14.
 

• Should you require more information, please contact us at phd@pasteur.fr

 
The PPU is now co-funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Program of the European Union.
 
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