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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
€14,000

EUR 14,000 per year for 3 years (not subject to VAT), paid to the employer; can be combined with the CIR. Hiring salary must be at least EUR 27,600 gross per year from 2026.

Funder

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

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Instruction runs throughout the year; the evaluation committee (CES) meets monthly.

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

Employer must be a French-law company; hires a Master-level doctoral candidate (any nationality, no age limit) on a CDI/CDD for a thesis project, hired and enrolled for no more than 9 months at filing; a lab attached to a doctoral school supervises. Research collaboration contract required within 6 months of approval.

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/le-dispositif-cifre-7844

"La subvention annuelle est de 14 000 € (non assujettie à la TVA). A cette subvention peut s'ajouter le crédit d'impôt recherche (CIR)"

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.anrt.asso.fr

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