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Summary
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Quota: | 100 |
| Application deadline: | 31 March |
| Benefits summary: | Monthly remuneration € 1767-€ 2172 |
Last update: 16 January 2012
Description
Once a year CNES awards about a hundred research grants in the domain of engineering sciences (orbital and space transport systems), and those sciences which make use of space equipment (sciences of the cosmos, Earth, and microgravity) to young French and foreign scientists who have an interest in space :
- thesis contracts with a view to preparing a university doctoral thesis in a research laboratory in France.
- post-doctoral contracts allocated for research work at CNES or in a laboratory in France.
Eligibility
Conditions for candidature
- For thesis contracts, university candidates or graduates of a Grande Ecole or engineering school must hold a Master 2 degree awarded by a university, or a suitable degree enabling them to enrol for their thesis at the relevant doctoral school.
- For post-doctoral contracts, candidates should hold a doctorate or equivalent by the start of the contract. Applications from researchers who have already benefited from a thesis contract co-sponsored by CNES will not be considered.
Duration
For thesis contracts: The duration of these contracts is one year, renewable twice. For post-doctoral contracts: The duration of the contract is one year, renewable once.
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Benefits
Gross monthly remuneration for doctoral students is 1767 EUR in the first year, 1843 EUR in the second year, and 1919 EUR in the third year.
For post-doctoral contracts: Gross monthly remuneration is 2258,06 EUR .
Conditions for placing contracts
- Thesis contracts must be co-sponsored by a partner (public body, manufacturer, regional body, etc.) by means of a co-sponsorship type of agreement (see the model example below).
Post doctoral contracts may possibly be co-financed. - The placing of co-sponsored contracts is dependent on the prior signing of a co-financing agreement with the partner and host laboratory.
- Contracts start, at the latest, in the December of the year in progress.
Application information
If you are interested in one subject, you must contact first of all, the responsible of that subject in CNES or in the laboratory. Then, you can apply by sending the application form to one of the adresses below :
- To apply for a doctoral or post-doctoral grant in the domain of engineering sciences (orbital systems), send by e.mail the application form filled and signed to : bourse.toulouse@cnes.fr for 31 March
- To apply for a doctoral or post-doctoral grant in the domain of engineering sciences (space transport systems), send by e.mail the application form filled and signed to : bourse.evry@cnes.fr or by mail to CNES, Candidature à une bourse de recherche, Josiane LACOMME, Rond point de l'Espace, Courcouronnes, 91 023 Evry Cedex for 31 March
- To apply for a doctoral or post-doctoral grant in the domain of sciences which make use of space equipments (sciences of the cosmos, Earth and microgravity), send by e.mail the application form filled and signed to : bourse.paris@cnes.fr or by mail to CNES, Candidature à une bourse de recherche, Myriana LOZACH, 2 pl Maurice Quentin, 75 039 Paris Cedex 1 for 31 March at the latest. As the post-doctoral topics are not pre selected in that domain, applicants are invited to propose first their research project and the host laboratory to the CNES responsible of the thematics and then apply by sending the application form.
Topics
The topics pre selected for will be available on Jan 1st.
Only the applicants for a post-doctoral grant will be invited for an interview in April/May (to be confirmed).
Juries selection will meet in May.
Dissemination of results will be done individually after the grant committee at the end of June.
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