AIRD-CIRAD Call for proposals (for PhD Students from countries of the South (Vanuatu, Fiji, Papua New Guinea etc.)

« Doctorants du Sud » (PhD students from countries of the South, including Vanuatu, Fiji or Papua New Guinea) is a support programme aiming at strengthening and consolidating the research potential of the countries of the South.

It is implemented by the AIRD (Inter-Establishment Agency of Research for Development) on behalf of the IRD (French public research institute for development) and the CIRAD (French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues).

This programme targets students coming from developing countries in the inter-tropical (and Mediterranean) regions, who have a master (or equivalent qualification) who wish to complete a PhD in partnership with a research unit of the CIRAD or the IAC and a research team in the South (possibly the IRD), ensuring a quality “supervision”.

Some 15 PhD students will receive a grant from November 2012 for three year (max.) to work on one of the 24 subjects proposed by the CIRAD.

Application deadline: June 18th 2012
For more information on this call, see: aird.doctorants-sud@ird.fr (in French)
For more information on AIRD, see: http://www.aird.fr/presentation/aird_eng.pdf
For more information on CIRAD, see: http://www.cirad.fr/en/home-page
For more information on IAC, see: http://www.iac.nc/
For more information on IRD, see: http://en.ird.fr/