Hello,
This mail is to draw your attention to the CEFIPRA PROWIS programs (Program Women in Science, https://www.cefipra.org/PgmMF.aspx?p=PR)
As the name indicates, it is reserved to female applicants, and it comes every year in two flavors:
- longish visits (up to 5 or 6 months) by a PhD student from India (resp. France) to a research group in France (resp. India)
- short visits (2 weeks) by a researcher already holding a PhD (postdoc, faculty) from one country, going to the other.
Having been in a position to observe the program, I note that
- There are many applications from India, but not many from the 'ReLaX community'. Because of the overall high number of applications, success is far from guaranteed, but I think it is worth trying.
- The number of scholarships awarded to 'Mathematical and Computational Sciences' is roughly proportional to the number of applications: this is a reason to encourage more applications!
- There are very few applications from France, even though CEFIPRA reserves as many slots FR--> IN as it does IN-->FR. As a result, the chances of success there are higher. If you know women in France who may be interested in one or the other flavor of the program, please encourage them to apply at the next call!
In the past applications have been due in December, and decisions have been made public in September or October of the following year. Also, CEFIPRA wants PhD student awardees to be able to benefit from the visit for their PhD project: as a result they tend to disallow applications from students in their last year.
Of course, the particulars of the call must be verified on the CEFIPRA site, not in this email!
With best regards,
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Pascal Weil
LIPN, CNRS et Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord
pascal.weil(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr
https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~pascal.weil/
Please do not use my @u-bordeaux.fr and @labri.fr addresses anymore. Prefer pascal.weil(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr or pascal.weil(a)cnrs.fr
