Confirmed researchers

Thanks to the E. de Rothschild and Y. Mayent foundations, the Institut Curie is able each year to award grants enabling scientists of international renown to stay at one of the Paris or Orsay Research Center laboratories.

The sabbaticals by these foreign professors are of at between four and nine months, during which they must present at least four conferences on a topic of their choice and visit the Orsay laboratories to meet the site's researchers.

Information on obtaining Institut Curie "sabbaticals trip" grants

Trip duration: between four and nine months

Applications: the application dossier, to be returned by October 31st at the latest, comprises the following documents:

  • A supporting letter from the director of the host laboratory, confirming his/her agreement to receive the candidate in his/her laboratory,
  • an application letter stating the possible scientific interactions with the researchers in said laboratory, along with a full curriculum vitae,
  • confirmation by the candidate that he/she shall give at least 3 conferences (at the most 5, depending on stay duration) to the Institut Curie's researchers, on a topic of his/her choice and that he/she shall visit the Orsay laboratories to meet the site's researchers.

Applications are assessed by a Institut Curie's Research Center committee. The name of grant recipients shall be published before Christmas in order to allow the grant to be awarded for January 1st of the following year.

Monthly salary (net): 3,150 to 3,500 € approximately, to which is added the refund of a return trip in economy class from Paris to the airport closest to the recipient's usual residence.

Residence in Paris: Furnished apartments for one to four individuals can be rented from the Institut Curie.

Applications should be sent to:

  • Prof. D. Louvard - Director of the Research Center of the Institut Curie,
  • or directly to the Director of the Research unit where the researcher wishes to spend his/her sabbatical, who shall then forward it to the Research Center Director.

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