FCPPL-CSC PhD grant application for 2013

The FCPPL - CSC agreement provides either a 3-year grant for full phD in France, or a 6- to 24-month grants for students wishing to prepare part of their thesis in France (so-called sandwich thesis). Grants are allocated by the China Scholarship Council and are around 1200 euros/month + 1 return flight ticket.

The selection procedure is the following:

1. First the FCPPL Steering Committee will preselect students who apply for a stay in a French lab member of FCPPL. Candidates have to download the application form and fill it in. The applicant 's tutor in France also has to fill in the FCPPL PhD commitment and sign it together with the applicant. Both files have to be sent by email to omartino@in2p3.fr before February 28th, 2013.

2. If the FCPPL steering committee validates the candidate's application, then the candidate has to proceed with the application to CSC. This second step will take place between March 20 and April 5, 2013. Details on the CSC application procedure will be available soon on this web page. 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 a ~50% sucess rate for applicants in 2012. CSC points out the quality of the existing collaboration between the Chinese team and its foreign counterparts, as well as the coherence of the candidate's research project and the added value of its stay aborad are key elements of the application's evaluation. We strongly advise that you take great care in filling in teh application, insisting in teh fact ythat your collabo

• Important notice for candidates : There is still plenty of time before the application deadline, but we would like to draw the attention of potential candidates on the fact that your academic institution of origin may also be part of the candidates selection process. Its exact role differs from one institution to the other, and it is therefore hard for FCPPL to provide you with details on this specific issue, but we strongly advise potential candidates to QUICKLY get in touch with their academic administration,inform them that you wish to apply to a CSC grant in 2013, and ask what should be done to get the institution approval for this.