FCPPL-CSC PhD grant application for 2015

• 1. Upload, fill in and send your PhD subject to garnier@cppm.in2p3.fr, omartino@in2p3.fr, cheng@ihep.ac.cn before December 1st, 2014.
• 2. After validation, all FCPPL PhD subjects will be transfered to CSC who will advertise them on their web site.

• 4. If the FCPPL steering committee validates the candidate's application, then the candidate has to proceed with the application to CSC. This last step will take place in March or April 2015. Details on the CSC application procedure will be available CSC will evaluate the preselected candidates according to its own requirements and priorities, and will inform the successful candidates in May or June 2013. Please be aware that the number of applicants to CSC grants has increased greatly in the last years, at a much faster pace than the number of grants. The competion therfeore gets stronger, with an overal ~50% sucess rate for applicants in 2012. CSC pointed out to FCPPL that the following items are key elements of the application's evaluation:
  • quality of the existing collaboration between the Chinese team and its foreign counterparts
  • coherence of the candidate's research project