Chateaubriand Fellowship - Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)

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The Chateaubriand Fellowship - STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) - is a grant offered by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States.

Applications are closed. Please come back on mid-October/November 2012 for the 2013-2014 session
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Every year, it allows PhD students enrolled in American universities to conduct research in a French laboratory (public or private) for a 4 to 10 month period of time.

This program has two main goals:

1. To allow American students to benefit from an experience in one of the best laboratories in France
2. To develop scientific cooperation between France and the United States.

Chateaubriand recipients receive:

• Monthly allowance (1400 euros)
• Travel support
• Health insurance abroad

The research should be performed in a French university, a school of engineering, a national laboratory or a private enterprise, with a link to a Doctoral School. Co-sponsoring by the interested French institution or company is possible and encouraged.

No particular level of French is required; it is at the host institution’s discretion. Courses of French can be offered on site.

Factors considered in the evaluation of a candidate's application:

• List of publications and academic transcripts
• Quality and relevance of proposed research project
• Priority will be given to research projects which are part of a French-American collaboration and will lead to cosupervision of the thesis, and if possible to double degree (cotutelle thesis)
• Letter(s) of recommendation
• Letter of invitation from a French Professor with description of existing or planed collaboration between the home and host laboratories, and agreement to cosupervise part of the thesis.
• Letter of agreement of the American Professor agreeing that part of the thesis to be cosupervised by a French colleague.

In order to access and complete the electronic application form please follow the steps below.

1. Create an account
2. Sign in with the user-name and password you will receive via email
3. Complete the pages of the application form and upload the necessary attachments. Note that you may save every completed page independently and work on the application form at different times.
4. Submit your completed application form. Note that you will not be able to change your data after final submission.
5. Make sure that you have received an acknowledgement by email confirming that your application has been saved