Eiffel Scholarships for International Students

he private and public
sectors, in priority areas of study, and encourages applications from emerging
countries at master’s level, and from emerging and industrialized countries at
PhD level.

• In
  courses leading to a master’s degree;
• Either
  in an engineering degree
• Either
  a doctorate in the framework of a cotutelle or joint supervision of a
  thesis with a foreign higher education institution partner.

• The
  right ;
• Economics
  and management;
• Engineering
  sciences for the master’s level, sciences in the broad sense for the
  doctorate level (engineering sciences, exact sciences: mathematics,
  physics, chemistry and life sciences, nano and biotechnologies, earth
  sciences, of the Universe and the Environment, Science and Information
  Technologies and communication);
• The
  political sciences.

• Master
  level: Eiffel fellows receive a monthly allowance of 1.181 € (€ 1,031
  maintenance allowance + € 150 monthly allowance), to which is added the
  direct support of several services:
  -An international transport ticket routing – repatriation;
  -Social protection Campus France for over 28s, the complementary health
  (mutual) for – 28 years old;
  -Cultural activities: They may also benefit, under certain conditions,
  from additional housing.
• PhD
  level: Eiffel fellows receive a monthly allowance of € 1,400, which is
  added the direct support of several services:
  -An international transport ticket – repatriation (for students who would
  make multiple trips, one return trip will be taken care of);
  -Social protection Campus France for over 28s, the complementary health
  (mutual) for – 28 years old;
  -Cultural activities

• Nationality:
  this program is reserved for candidates of foreign nationality. The
  Bi-national candidates, one of whom is French, are not eligible.
• Age:
  Master level, the candidate must be at least 30 years old on the committee
  date Selection ; that is, born the same day or after March 12, 1988. At
  the doctoral level, the candidate must be 35 years old or older on the
  date of the selection; that is, born the same day or after the 12th of
  March, 1983.
• Origin
  of the files: only the candidatures transmitted by the establishments
  French are admissible. The latter undertake to register the winners in the
  training for which they have been selected. Applications submitted by
  other ways are not acceptable. In addition, a candidate presented by an
  institution will be rejected.
• The
  formations concerned: are eligible candidates likely to integrate training
  leading to a master’s degree, including in school engineers, and doctoral
  candidates. The French formations relocated to abroad are not concerned.
  Training as part of an apprenticeship or professionalization contract are
  not eligible for the Eiffel Scholarships.
• Cumulation
  of scholarships: foreign students already benefiting from a scholarship
  French Government under another program, at the time of the filing of the
  application, are not eligible, even if it is a fellowship that does not
  take into charge as social coverage.
• Eiffel
  Master scholarship: the candidacy of a student whose file has not been
  retained during a previous selection is not admissible, even if this
  application is submitted by a different institution or in another field
  studies. The candidacy of a student who has already benefited from an
  Eiffel scholarship Master level is not acceptable for this same level.
• Eiffel
  Doctoral Scholarship: institutions can present for a scholarship doctorate
  a candidate who has already benefited from an Eiffel scholarship at the
  master’s level. A candidate who has already benefited from an Eiffel
  scholarship as part of his doctorate is not not eligible once again for an
  Eiffel grant. The candidacy of a student whose the folder was not selected
  during a previous selection for this level is not not admissible, even if
  submitted by an institution different or in another field of study.
• Language
  level: institutions that pre-select non-qualified candidates Francophones
  must ensure that their language level is adequate with the level required
  by the training. Students studying abroad have priority over those who
  already reside in France.

• French
  higher education establishments pre-select candidates for the Eiffel
  Programme from among the foreign students to whom they have offered a
  place on a course of study.
•  The
  establishments complete and submit applications for these candidates
  online.1 They must make sure that the applications fulfil the Programme
  criteria. The total length of the course and any compulsory work
  placements in France 1 There is a different application form for each
  branch of the Programme. Page 5 of 6 or abroad must be clearly mentioned
  in the application. Each establishment can nominate no more than 40
  candidates per field of study for a master’s scholarship. Incomplete
  applications will be rejected.
• The
  establishments must send to Campus France, by 6 January 2017, by recorded
  post with acknowledgement of receipt, a list of the applications submitted
  online. This document must bear the establishment’s stamp and the
  signature of the head of the establishment (university president or
  principal), or his or her representative.