Calls for applications

This Prize aims to promote technological innovation and the dissemination of optics and photonics across all fields of application.

It is awarded to a researcher or engineer who proposes an innovative project of high scientific value or strong industrial potential, representing a significant milestone in their career, and incorporating at least one optics or photonics component.

Apply by March 15, 2026

The Palladio Foundation supports and encourages young talents (students, PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers, French and foreign citizens) who will create real estate and the city of tomorrow as part of its 2026 scholarship campaign. Applications are open until March 11, 2026.

Under the CIFRE (Conventions Industrielles de Formation par la Recherche - Industrial Agreements for Research Training) scheme, the City of Paris takes on doctoral students whose dissertations address priority issues for the municipality. A new call for applications has been launched at the start of 2026. (More details below in French).

Submit your application before 12:00 on Februry 27, 2026!

The Shaker is the answer to the needs of students, PhDs candidates and holders, as well as young engineers who have developed an innovative concept in the field of biotechnology. Apply before June 30, 2023!

To encourage and promote research in the field of defense and military history, the French Scientific Council for Historical Research in Defense is awarding a "Military History Prize" for PhD theses, as well as for Master 2 theses. 

Apply until June 10, 2022.

Are you a young doctor, post-doc or doctoral student at the end of your thesis?  You think that your research results have the potential to become a future product/service, meeting a need in society? You are thinking about a start-up project, and consider bringing it to market?

The Young Researchers Special Startup programme may be the springboard that will help you realise your DeepTech ambition.

Apply until 15 October 2021.

The Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) - GALILEE 2024 - aims to develop scientific and technological exchanges of excellence between French and South African laboratories, involving a significant participation of young researchers (PhD and post-doctoral fellows). The deadline for applications is May 19, 2023.

To encourage and promote research in the field of defense and military history, the French Scientific Council for Historical Research in Defense is awarding a "Military History Prize" for PhD theses, as well as for Master 2 theses. 

Apply until June 10, 2022.

la Fondation Hospitalière pour la Recherche sur la Précarité et l’Exclusion sociale, soutenue par l'Agence Régionale de Santé Ile-de-France, émet un nouvel appel à projets de recherche sur la thématique générale de la grande pauvreté. Le dépôt des candidatures (note d’intention dans un premier temps) sera possible du 29 novembre 2022 au 9 janvier 2023, puis du 3 février au 6 mars 2023.