Internationally mobile PhD students - SRIM 2023

Main objective:

ISFIN's PhD Program aims to strengthen education through research, develop students' disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills and knowledge, and internationalize student training curricula.
To this end, ISFIN is launching a call for international mobility for PhD students (from 6 weeks to 3 months outside France). The philosophy behind the call is to enable you, PhD students, to carry out your own project, provided it fits in with or revolves around the Institute's theme.

The awardees will have a budget adapted to their mobility, which can be used for a variety of purposes:

• Move to another laboratory to learn a new technique
• Move to another laboratory to work on the PhD subject or on a subject slightly different from the PhD subjects (but somewhat related).
• Start a collaboration with another PhD student or researcher...
• Test an idea or hypothesis in a laboratory equipped for this purpose.
• Obtain the "European Doctorate" label. This label requires 3 months' mobility and other rules linked to the doctoral defense (evaluators, committee members, language, etc.).
• Any other good motivation...

Mobility within the CIVIS European Campus is strongly encouraged

Grant proposals are commonplace in current research and industry.
To help you develop your technical skills, this call for mobility takes the form of a standard grant proposal, including a technical/scientific description of the project, motivation, planning, budget... and a post-mobility feedback report.

Eligibility

The PhD student's research topic must be related to ISFIN's research themes.

• The thesis director or co-director must belong to an ISFIN-affiliated laboratory.
• The doctoral contract or the doctoral student's employer must allow the student's mobility.
• The doctoral contract must not be terminated during the mobility period.
• The host institution may be located anywhere in the world but outside France.
• The proposal must be complete (model filled in, including the agreement of the thesis director(s) and the agreement of the host person).
• Mobility period must take place in 2023

Evaluation

The evaluation will be made by a committee within ISFIN on the basis of the project submitted by the PhD student.

Practical details

ISFIN aims to enable the mobility of as many students as possible. Should the budget required to fund all positively evaluated proposals exceed ISFIN's ceiling for this action, ISFIN may contact laboratories and research teams to discuss the possibility of funding.
For this action, ISFIN could contact laboratories and research teams to discuss possible cost sharing. Such cost-sharing can also be proposed from the outset in the proposal if dedicated funds are available, but this is not compulsory.

A scientific project must be co-constructed with the host institute, and a mobility project in English must be submitted to the ISFIN institute. The project must include :

• Background, motivation and objectives, scientific description of the project
• Work plan
• Risk management and contingency plan
• Staff and academic impact
• Ethical issues
• Budget, including justification of resources required and any additional requirements
• Contact persons at the host institution

The project must be approved by the thesis supervisor(s).