PAUSE Program: New Call for Applications

This call for proposals offers two types of funding:

1/ Full funding for a 3-year doctoral contract (5 grants will be awarded).
Only students who are not yet enrolled in a doctoral program in France and who have not been enrolled in a doctoral program in their home country for more than one year are eligible.Download the application guidelines.

2/ For all other applications, including those from doctoral students who have been enrolled in a doctoral program in France or in their home country for more than one year: co-funding of up to 60% (or 80% in the case of multiple applications) for one year, renewable once subject to a new evaluation.
Please note that a renewal request for a third year may be submitted by doctoral students who were awarded grants in previous rounds.

• Be able to provide proof of status as a faculty member or researcher (at a minimum, enrolled in a doctoral program);
• Being in an emergency situation: - being a victim of persecution or violence because of the content of one’s research, the free expression of one’s opinions, one’s identity, one’s beliefs, one’s sexual orientation, etc.;

  – being the victim of another type of threat, to be specified;

• Regardless of their current place of residence: having been forced into exile or having left their country of origin less than three years ago.

• Have teaching experience;
• Being in an emergency situation: - being a victim of persecution or violence because of the content of one’s research, the free expression of one’s opinions, one’s identity, one’s beliefs, one’s sexual orientation, etc.;

  – being the victim of another type of threat, to be specified;

• Regardless of their current place of residence: having been forced into exile or having left their country of origin less than three years ago.

The amount of funding awarded varies depending on the recipient’s status and experience, as well as whether the host institution has a social support program in place:

• Category 1 (doctoral student, research assistant), up to 20,000 euros;
• Category 2 (postdocs, associate professors, research engineers), up to 40,000 euros;
• Category 3 (university professor, research director), up to 60,000 euros.

The co-funding grant awarded by PAUSE is capped at 60% of the total budget submitted by the host institution. Co-funding of up to 80% may be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on the specific circumstances of the researchers and/or institutions, as well as for institutions that submit multiple applications per call.

The PAUSE program’s executive management will request a review of the past year from both the researcher and the host institution upon completion of the hosting project outlined in the application.

Applications are submitted by public research organizations and public higher education institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation and/or the Ministry of Culture, as well as by private higher education institutions serving the public interest (EESPIG). Instructions for submitting an application are available on the PAUSE website.

Applications are evaluated by scientists, including members of the PAUSE program’s advisory committee, based on the following criteria:

• the level of urgency and threat;
• the quality of the scientific evidence;
• the details of the support program for social and professional integration.

The PAUSE Program Steering Committee selects applications based on the recommendations of the Sponsorship Committee. Its decisions are final.The selection results will be announced in late June 2020.

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