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Open to all, regardless of their field of research, the PRESTIGE programme encourages the mobility of French and foreign researchers, from and to France. It co-finances their French hosting/sending institution and thus helps fund their research project. This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° PCOFUND-GA-2013-609102. Coordinated by Campus France, the PRESTIGE programme supports the international mobility of researchers to and from France. It is co-financed to the amount of 6 million euros by European Union via the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Launched in 2014 for a period of 5 years, as of July 2017, almost 185 researchers had received PRESTIGE subsidies.
Following a 3-month extension, the PRESTIGE programme is now running until 30/11/2019. Nevertheless, as the programme is approaching its end, 24-month PRESTIGE co-financing grants under the Incoming and Re-integration mobility schemes are no longer available. Co-financing grants for shorter durations, between 12 and 23 months (depending on the work contract’s start date), may be awarded instead. Please note that no Incoming or Re-integration mobility co-financing grant shall be awarded for less than 12 months.
PRESTIGE is a co-financing programme, funding about 1/3 of the post-doc fellow’s living, mobility and research allowance, while the remaining 2/3 are financed by another partner, either public or private.
PRESTIGE should help to strengthen and broaden various existing mobility initiatives, thus making both France and the European Research Area (ERA) more attractive to researchers.
PRESTIGE is open to all scientific fields provided that each proposed research project is in compliance with the EU ethics rules. Co-financing partners may, however, limit the eligible scientific fields, according to their own prioritized thematic areas.
Researchers will be partly financed through PRESTIGE by an EU grant (roughly 1/3 of the salary) paid by Campus France to the host or sending institutions which commit themselves to finance the remaining amount. Please note that the actual grant amount will be prorated depending on the duration of the mobility.
The programme is open to any scientific field and research topic, as far as in compliance with EU ethics regulation and rules.
Researchers must be Experienced Researchers (according to the terminology of Marie Curie Actions) in possession of a doctoral degree (or be awarded such a degree by the starting date of their mobility) or an equivalent research experience of 4 years and they may apply after a career break. Their proposals must fulfill all of the below-mentioned eligibility criteria if they are to be retained for evaluation. These criteria will be rigorously applied. A proposal can be declared ineligible, at any time, if it becomes clear that it does not meet the requirements.
Research topics are to be previously defined after a discussion between the host research unit/laboratory and the applicant. In the fellowship scheme, the choice of research topics and destination is free but may depend on regional priorities and on host organizations’ capabilities to insure appropriate conditions of research.
A prior declaration signed by both the applicant and the host research unit/laboratory will have to be joined to the application declaring that research works to be undertaken will be in line with the ethical rules of the FP7 programme.
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