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CALL FOR POSTDOC 2025 "YOUNG RESEARCHER EXCELLENCE FELLOWSHIPS" PROJECTS

Published on November 29, 2024 Updated on December 4, 2024

As part of its commitment to excellence and international outreach, the IdEx Université Côte d'Azur is launching the 2025 Young Researcher Excellence Fellowships campaign to encourage the recruitment of young researchers at post-doctoral level for a 24-month period in its laboratories.

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The call for proposals is designed to fund 12 contracts. All disciplines and themes are covered. Applicants must first contact a Université Côte d'Azur laboratory or research group.

Together, the candidate and supervisor will draw up an original research program, which will be submitted via our dedicated Nuxéo platform.

Winners are explicitly and contractually required to apply for a permanent position (such as permanent researcher - Chargé de Recherche) at Université Côte d'Azur or one of its partner institutions, or to submit an ERC grant application.

Download the call for applications here
 
Salary and benefits
Successful candidates will be offered a 24-month fixed-term contract with an attractive salary of 3,520 euros gross.

An operating budget of 5,000 euros is also provided for the duration of the project.

In addition, winners will be offered temporary accommodation at the Université Côte d'Azur Faculty Club (with rent paid for one month).

Last but not least, the Université Côte d'Azur Welcome Center provides information, advice and personalized assistance to laureates before and during their stay at Université Côte d'Azur.
Eligibility
Applicants must hold a university doctorate/PhD.

Unless otherwise stated, candidates must not have defended their doctoral thesis more than 4 years before the application deadline: the thesis must therefore have been defended after March 17, 2021.
Selection and timeline
Applications will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary committee of internal and external experts. The selection criteria are as follows (in descending order of importance):
 
  • Quality of the applicant's CV (diplomas, track record, publications, credibility of career plan).
  • Scientific quality of the project presented (importance of the question, originality, technical feasibility, taking into account the duration of the contract).
  • Quality of host laboratory and supervisor's CV (publications, scientific and technical environment, etc.).
  • Suitability of the host laboratory for the research project.
  • The project's relevance to one of the Université Côte d'Azur's IdEx strategic programs (see attached list) will be considered as an additional favorable element.

The deadline to apply is March 17, 2025. All applicants will be informed about the results at the end of May 2025. The start of the scholarship, that will be agree on with the host, is no later than February 1, 2026.

Timeline of the Call
  • December 2, 2024: Launch of the call for applications
  • March 17, 2025: Deadline for the submission of applications on Nuxéo
  • End of May, 2025: Announcement of results
  • February 1, 2026: Deadline for taking up the position
How to find a supervisor
In case you are unable to find a suitable host, we are here to help you! Please fill the following form and we will get back to you if we find a match.

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Application and contact

Applications must be submitted by the supervisor on Nuxéo, the platform used to manage IdEx calls for projects: Excellence Fellowships Post-doc IdEx 2025. All the documents requested must be assembled and concatenated in a single PDF file named as follows:
FIRST NAME_LAST NAME(applicant)-POSTDOCIDEX2025

The first letter of recommendation (letter of recommendation relevant to the project submitted) will be sent by the writer to the following address: idex.recherche@univ-cotedazur.fr.

Questions about the program or about potential supervisors at Université Côte d'Azur can be sent to the same address.