CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONTRACT PROJECTS EN MIROIR 2025
6 Mirror doctoral projects
A mirrored doctoral project enables two distinct disciplinary theses to be articulated within a common multidisciplinary project.
The aim is to approach the same research project through two different disciplines, to promote multidisciplinarity. The methods and references specific to each of the disciplines concerned will therefore have to be mobilized.
This requires close collaboration between thesis directors (co-supervisors) in order to draw up, in pairs, a project definition and a coordinated response to the IDIL call for projects.
For the start of the 2025 academic year, the IDIL graduate program is funding six mirror doctoral projects, i.e. a total of 12 doctoral contracts over a 3-year period.
In short, a mirrored doctoral project is :
financing
The doctoral contract is a 3-year contract which allows the doctoral student to be employed by a public institution to complete his/her thesis.
IDIL funding covers the gross salary of doctoral students, including payroll costs, as well as environmental costs of €5k per year for the host laboratory (i.e. a cost of €15k over 3 years per doctoral student).
For the 2025 campaign, the IDIL program is proposing to award 12 doctoral contracts for 6 multidisciplinary mirror projects.
The average salary for a PhD student is around 1,700 euros net per month.
eligibility
An IDIL mirror doctoral project must be co-constructed/co-authored by two HDR thesis directors from two different Doctoral Schools and two different laboratories (UMR or UR).
It includes a common chapeau presenting the multidisciplinary project, followed by the description of 2 thesis topics, in two different disciplines, which specify the two approaches that will be taken during the two funded doctoral contracts. To ensure that each thesis is clearly oriented towards multidisciplinarity, the thesis co-director of the first doctoral contract will be co-director of the second doctoral contract, and vice-versa.
IDIL multidisciplinary mirror doctoral projects must articulate two thesis projects in the following disciplines around the three pillars Care, Protect, Nourish:
- Biology Health
- Plant biology
- Chemistry
- Ecology and evolution
- Electronics
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology
- Political Science
- Management
- Modeling
- Earth Sciences
- Water science
- Sport and movement sciences
terms and conditions of deposit
Applicants for IDIL mirror doctoral projects must inform their team leaders and unit directors before submitting their project.
The project must be written in French or English, using the downloadable file below, and following the instructions given therein.
Directors are invited to submit their applications to the IDIL graduate program via the dedicated submission site(the submission module will be accessible from December 16, 2024) - Deadline February 9, 2025, 6pm CET
If you have any questions, please contact us by email.
evaluation
The scientific quality of the overall project will be assessed by the University of Montpellier's Research Commission, in the presence of the IDIL project leaders and representatives of the Institut Agro.
Students will be selected by a doctoral student recruitment committee composed of 7 members for each of the selected projects:
- 1 IDIL carrier or representative
- 2 thesis directors involved
- 1 representative of each Doctoral School concerned (2 ED members)
- 1 representative from each of the laboratories concerned (2 UMR members)
3 candidates will be auditioned per subject (i.e. 6 in total for a mirror project).
calendar
- Campaign opening: December 9, 2024
- Deposit platform opens: December 16, 2024
- Deadline for submission of thesis projects on the IDIL website: February 9, 2025
- Release of results from funded IDIL mirror projects: Mid-March 2025
- Student auditions : May 2025
- Announcement of results to students: End-May 2025
- Start of thesis: October 2025 (duration 3 years)