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Grants

CIFRE Industrial PhD Grant

Convention Industrielle de Formation par la Recherche (CIFRE)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

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.

Funder

Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (ANRT)

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Applications accepted continuously; evaluated in successive sessions.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Any company established in France hiring a doctoral candidate on a French research project; combinable with the CIR.

How to apply

  1. Identify a PhD candidate and an academic laboratory
  2. Submit the CIFRE application on the ANRT portal — link
  3. Sign the tripartite agreement (company, laboratory, doctoral candidate)

What you will need

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.anrt.asso.fr/fr/cifre-7843 · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.anrt.asso.fr

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