Doctoral program between the University of Montpellier (UM) and the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (ANAS)
The University of Montpellier (UM) and the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (ANAS) wish to strengthen their partnership on topics of mutual interest.
To this end, UM and ANAS have decided to collaborate on a maximum of two jointly supervised theses for the 2021-2022 academic year, exclusively for students of Azerbaijani nationality who hold at least a Master's degree (or equivalent) recognized as such by both institutions.
This call for applications aims to identify collaborative projects between research teams at the University of Montpellier and ANAS research units.
Financing principle:
As part of this program, doctoral students will spend two years at UM working on a jointly supervised thesis and one year at an ANAS laboratory. ANAS has committed to providing the following funding to selected Azerbaijani students:
- the cost of a round trip between Azerbaijan and France
- a monthly stipend for a total duration of 24 months during their stay at the UM of €1,200 per month.
- the cost of health, accident, and repatriation insurance.
The principle of joint supervision stipulates that, once the application has been selected, the co-supervisors and the doctoral student shall organize the distribution of the doctoral student's stay between Azerbaijan and France, i.e., the distribution of the 24 months spent in a research unit accredited by the UM and the 12 months spent in an ANAS research unit.
ANAS covers laboratory costs related to the period that the doctoral student spends in the UM laboratory: €1,000 per year per doctoral student for non-experimental sciences; €3,000 per year per doctoral student for experimental sciences.
Priority themes :
The themes are defined each year by ANAS. The priority themes for 2021-2022 are as follows:
- Molecular paleontology
- RNA biology
Submission of applications :
The relevant UM doctoral schools propose several thesis topics, each of which comes from a UM thesis supervisor. These topics are then submitted to ANAS, which in turn proposes applications (a pair consisting of a doctoral student and an ANAS thesis co-supervisor).
The final selection of applications will be made by a joint UM/ANAS committee.
Proposals for thesis topics will be submitted to doctoral schools accredited by the University of Montpellier, which will then forward them by email.
Calendar :
Call for tenders launched: April 8, 2021
Deadline for submitting thesis topic proposals to UM: April 26, 2021 (Part 1 of the application form)
Completed applications from a doctoral student and ANAS co-supervisor: May 17, 2021 (Part 2 of the application form)
Selection of applications by the Doctoral Schools and the Research Commissionon June 7, 2021
The final selection of applications will be made by a joint UM/ANAS committee via videoconference in June 2021.
Estimated start date of thesis: October 1, 2021
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