CIFRE Industrial PhD Grant
Convention Industrielle de Formation par la Recherche (CIFRE)
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
Annual subsidy paid to the company for each PhD candidate hired under a CIFRE agreement, for three years. The annual amount per contract is set by the ministry.
Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (ANRT)
public · national
Deadline: rolling — Applications accepted continuously; evaluated in successive sessions.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.
Who can apply
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
Any company established in France hiring a doctoral candidate on a French research project; combinable with the CIR.
How to apply
- Identify a PhD candidate and an academic laboratory
- Submit the CIFRE application on the ANRT portal — link
- Sign the tripartite agreement (company, laboratory, doctoral candidate)
What you will need
- Research project description
- Laboratory agreement
- Candidate CV and master's degree
Source. https://www.anrt.asso.fr/fr/cifre-7843 — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked