Chinese students, applications for the CSC-ENS 2025 doctoral scholarships are open from December 16, 2024 to February 14, 2025.
The program between the ENS group and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) recruits excellent doctoral students from all Chinese universities, or provides financial support for a Chinese doctoral student to carry out a research stay in a laboratory affiliated to one of the 4 ENS (Paris, Paris-Saclay, Lyon, Rennes). This program can recruit up to 20 doctoral students per year in the ENS group (i.e. around 5 candidates per ENS and per year).
There are two kinds of CSC financial support, depending on the status of the candidate:
- Full PhD, thesis grant from 36 to 48 months:
- thesis with delivery of a single French diploma
- thesis in international joint-PhD
- Visiting PhD, research fellowship from 6 to 24 months: thesis with delivery of a single Chinese diploma in China, with an invitation to carry out a research stay in France.
Phase 1: Call for thesis proposals
From October 16 to November 15, 2024
The call for thesis topics is currently open. Thesis topics will be published early December 2024.
Phase 2: Call for PhD applications
From December 16, 2024 to February 14, 2025
- Potential Chinese candidates contact the scientific team directly.
- The scientific teams contact the International Affairs Office for the identified candidate.
- An inter-ENS committee sends the final list of candidates to CSC before the end of February 2025.
Phase 3: Final selection of candidates by CSC in China
March, 2025
Selected candidates apply on the CSC website
Applicants must specify that they are applying through the specific ENS-CSC program (合作渠道：与法国高师集团合作奖学金).
Phase 4: CSC results and Arrival in France
June 2025
- Announcement of the results by CSC to ENS group at the end of June.
- CSC results will be communicated to scientific teams by the International Affairs Office at the end of June.
- The host laboratory prepares to welcome the doctoral student for his arrival in France.
The selection criteria will take into account the quality of the application, the interest in the topic of research by the host laboratory in ENS de Lyon, and in the existing cooperations with the home university candidates.