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RESEARCH GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Update June 2024 (non-exhaustive list)
The doctoral contracts, grants and other public and private funding for theses below are listed by country or institution of origin of the funding.
Note: Many funding applications must be submitted at the end of the calendar year for the following academic year (e.g. submission in December 2024 for the 2025-2026 academic year).
> FRANCE
Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche
Disability 2024 doctoral contract campaign
Call for researchers from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2024-2025)
Beaux-arts of Paris
Grants Association Française des Femmes diplômées des Universités (AFFDU)
Grants of the Vocation Foundation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet
Quai Branly Museum study grants
Grants and calls for proposals of the Institut Français de Recherche à l’Étranger (IFRE)
Grants and calls of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
Grant Zellidja of the Académie Française
Campus France
CFHA (Centre français d’histoire de l’art) – Prizes and grants
Chancellerie des Universités de Paris
CNRS
Convention CIFRE Association Nationale Recherche Technologie
Foundation Napoléon (Paris)
Foundation Thiers
Legs Lassence
Prize 2024 INA thèque
Prize Irène Joliot-Curie
Prize Louis Cros – Comité Universitaire d’Information Pédagogique
Prize Marc de Montalembert (Paris)
Prize for the study of the Foundation des Treilles
REGIONAL ALLOCATIONS
Bourgogne
Bretagne
Centre-Val de Loire
Grand-Est
Hauts-de-France
Ile de France
Midi Pyrénées
Poitou Charentes
Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne
Germany
Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) – Centre franco-allemand de recherches en sciences sociales (Berlin)
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
CIERA, Centre interdisciplinaire d’enseignement et de recherche sur l’Allemagne
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) / Bourse de l’office allemande des échanges universitaires
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art (Paris)
Institut Franco-allemand : Sciences historiques et sociales
Spain
Greece
Italy
French academie in Rome
Grants of the Istituto Italiano Per Gli Studi Storici (Naples)
Doctoral grants of the Institut Universitaire Européen
Netherlands
Grant Éole du Réseau Franco-Néerlandais
Portugal
Roumania
United-Kingdom
Grants in Oxford – For details, contact each doctoral schools
The Henry Moore Foundation (Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire / Leeds)
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Londres)
The Warburg Institute (Londres)
> > NORTH AMERICA
United States of America
Fulbright mobility grants
Clark Fellowships (Williamstown)
Funds France-Berkeley (Berkeley)
Terra Foundation for American Art
The Dedalus Foundation (New York)
Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.)
Walker Cowen Memorial Prize of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
Quebec
Excellence scholarships for foreign students
France-Quebec joint thesis prize
Banting postdoctoral fellowship programme
>> SOUTH AMERICA
Latin America
Programme ECOS Nord (Mexico, Colombia, Peru)
Brazil
Programme CAPES-COFECUB between Brazil and France
Japan
Canon Foundation grants
University grants Japan / Banque Mondiale
Australia
FASIC (France-Australia Science Innovation Collaboration)
Israel