SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS

France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship

The Eiffel scholarship program is a tool developed by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education establishments to attract the best foreign students. It helps train future foreign decision-makers, from the private and public sectors, in priority areas of study.

Level:

• MASTER: Scholarship duration 24 months. Candidates must be aged 25 or less on the date of the selection committee.

• DOCTORATE: Scholarship duration 36 months. Candidates must be aged 30 or less at the time of the application campaign.

Field:

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:

• Biology and health

• Ecological transition

• Mathematics and numerical

• Engineering and engineering sciences

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES:

• French History Language and Civilization

• Law and Political Science

• Economy and Management

Application and deadline:

• Only French higher education and research establishments can submit application files to Campus France.

• The students must find the establishment, submit their application and it is up to the host establishment to submit their file to Campus France. Attachment (pdf application guide)

• Application opening: September

• Deadline for establishments to submit application files to Campus France first week of January

• A minimum of 70% of the scholarships are awarded based on the best grades obtained.

Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) program project, funded by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) and implemented by Campus France will accommodate at least 40 young researchers wishing to carry out their research in France. A minimum of 40 scholarships will be awarded to winning young researchers over a period of 12 months.

Level: Foreign researchers who have had a doctoral degree for less than 5 years can apply for this call for projects.

Field:

• Earth sciences
• The sciences of climate change and sustainability
•  The energy transitions
• The societal challenges of environmental questions
• Human, animal, and environmental health as defined within the “One Health” approach
• https://www.campusfrance.org/fr/les-thematiques-mopga-make-our-planet-great-again

The French government, through the AEFE and the MEAE (Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs), supports student mobility through France Excellence Major scholarships. These scholarships allow the best foreign high school graduates from a French high school in the world to pursue a high-level course in French higher education.

Level: Baccalaureate to register for a license

Field : All

Application procedure and deadline:

• Not having French nationality

• Be enrolled in final year class in an approved French educational establishment abroad

• Have obtained excellent academic results

• Present an orientation project in French education in a course delivering a diploma recognized by the State

• The decision to definitively award a scholarship to the selected candidates is conditioned by the commission on obtaining the baccalaureate with “very good” level and a confirmation of registration in the sector announced in the application.

Program which supports foreign doctoral students to carry out their work-study between an IRD laboratory and a foreign laboratory, to train the executives, experts, and scientists of tomorrow.

Level: be a doctoral student in a foreign country

 Field: All IRD fields (Look IRD laboratories)

Application and deadline: https://www.ird.fr/programmeARTS

The Summer University is a two-month training course for 12 to 15 young directors or cinema students wishing to complete their training and technical knowledge as well as perfect their practice of documentary cinema in France.

Level: all

Field : Cinema, documentary

Application:

• Participants are selected jointly by the Cultural Services of the French embassies in the countries concerned by this training program and La Fémis from application files, available from the cultural services (provided by La Fémis).
• Fluent written, spoken and read French language is obligatory.
• Applicants must be under 27 years old

Erasmus + est un programme de l’Union européenne qui soutient l’éducation, la formation, la jeunesse et le sport. Grâce à celui-ci, plus de deux millions d’étudiants peuvent bénéficier d’une bourse de mobilité en Europe : il couvre la période 2014-2020 et son budget s’élève à 14,7 milliards d’euros.

L’offre de Masters conjoints Erasmus Mundus est un programme d’études qui délivre des bourses aux meilleurs étudiants du monde, pendant un ou deux ans, quel que soit leur domaine. Pour en profiter, ces étudiants doivent effectuer leur master dans au moins deux pays participants au programme. Plusieurs établissements d’enseignement supérieur français proposent des masters conjoints.

Dans le cadre d’accords bilatéraux entre établissements d’enseignement supérieur, Erasmus+ propose également des bourses de mobilité depuis et vers la France. Elles couvrent les frais d’installations et les frais de séjour. Renseignez-vous auprès de votre établissement.

The scholarship program is open both to future religious executives who will exercise responsibilities within a religious institution and to students with a study project directly and obviously linked to religious sciences.

Levels: Master, Doctorate, Short research stay

Field: Religious sciences

Application and deadline:

• Prove a minimum B2 level in French, by a TCF Test of less than 2 years, or a Delf Test

• Last deadline for receiving applications is April

• Submission of applications only by the cultural cooperation and action service of the embassy (SCAC).