MIEM Excellence Scholarships at University of Paris - France

MIEM Excellence Scholarships

The MIEM programme, financed by the Universite de Paris' IdEx label, aims to promote the internationalization of master's programs and help attract the best foreign students to constitute a pool of excellent potential future PhD students. The university is thus equipping itself with a system for training foreign scientists who are experts in their fields and future academic or senior executives in their home country or in France. This program also aims to train future highly qualified professionals who will participate in the economic and social development of their home country.

The MIEM scholarships are intended for foreign students coming to study at Universite de Paris. This university is metonymically known as the Sorbonne was the main university in Paris, France, active since the medieval era. Internationally highly reputed for its academic performance in the humanities ever since the Middle Ages, the university introduced several academic standards and traditions that have endured ever since and spread internationally, such as doctoral degrees and student nations.

Requirements

Only students applying for the pre-selected masters programs are eligible for a MIEM scholarship. So, these students must be:

• of foreign nationality and primo (first)-applicant at a French university
• a foreign baccalaureate holder or national diploma certifying completion of secondary education (that corresponds to the international ISCED/ ISCED level 3)
• holding a bachelor's degree or a foreign degree equivalent to a bachelor's degree for applying Master 1
• holding a foreign degree equivalent to Master 1 in France for applying Master 2

In addition to these general criteria, each master's degree will apply its own selection criteria.

Awards/ grants

91 scholarships will be awarded to students admitted to the courses listed in the call for applications. The scholarships are distributed as follows:

1. Science Faculty: 35 scholarships (8 k€ each)
   
2. Health Faculty: 28 scholarships (10 k€ each)
3. SSH faculty: 35 scholarships (8 k€ each)
4. IPGP: 7 scholarships (10 k€ each)

This may however not be cumulated with another scholarship. It is awarded for one year, non-renewable and without the possibility of deferment.

How to apply

The student's application takes place in three stages:

Step 1: Students send their application to the International Relations and Strategy Office (SRI) at scholarship.programs.miem-mires@u-paris.fr

Please note that only complete applications will be accepted. Each candidate is asked to check that his/ her application file is correctly completed and that all supporting documents are attached. If this is not the case, the SRI office has the right to turn down the candidate's application.

The deadline for the application is : 01 February 2021

Step 2: The International Relations and Strategy Office (SRI) communicates the candidates' files to the faculty councils that select the laureates.

Each faculty council will be responsible for selecting the recipients of the MIEM scholarships and establishing a main list and a secondary list of candidates in order of academic merit.

Step 3: The International Relations and Strategy Office (SRI) will communicate the results to all candidates by email.

The laureates will have 15 days from the date of receipt of the email to come forward and accept the scholarship. After this deadline, he or she will automatically be considered as having renounced and a candidate from the secondary list will be contacted.

Date of information: 15 April 2020

Expected answer from candidate: between the 1st and 15th day of receiving the email.

For further information, please kindly visit this Scholarship Link.