CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONTRACT PROJECTS IN MIRROR 2024
5 Mirrored Doctoral Projects
A mirrored doctoral project enables two distinct disciplinary theses to be articulated within a common multidisciplinary project.
The aim is to approach the same research project through two different disciplines, to promote multidisciplinarity. The methods and references specific to each of the disciplines concerned will therefore have to be mobilized.
This requires a close collaboration between thesis directors (co-supervisors) in order to draw up, in pairs, a project definition and a coordinated response to the IDIL call for projects.
For the start of the 2024 academic year, the IDIL graduate program is funding five mirror doctoral projects, i.e. a total of 10 doctoral contracts over a 3-year period.
In short, a mirrored doctoral project is :
FUNDING
The doctoral contract is a 3-year contract which allows the doctoral student to be employed by a public institution to complete his/her thesis.
IDIL funding covers the gross salary of doctoral students, including salary costs, as well as environmental costs of up to €5k per year for the host laboratory (i.e. a cost of €15k over 3 years per doctoral student).
For the 2024 campaign, the IDIL program is proposing to award 10 doctoral contracts for 5 multidisciplinary mirror projects.
DID YOU KNOW ?
The average salary for a PhD student is around 1,700 euros net per month.
eligibility
An IDIL mirror doctoral project must be co-constructed/co-authored by two HDR thesis directors attached to two different Doctoral Schools, or at least two different laboratories (UMR or UR).
It includes a common chapeau presenting the multidisciplinary project, followed by the description of 2 thesis topics, in two different disciplines, which specify the two approaches that will be taken during the two doctoral contracts funded. To ensure that each thesis is clearly oriented towards multidisciplinarity, the thesis co-director of the first doctoral contract will be co-director of the second doctoral contract, and vice-versa.
IDIL multidisciplinary mirror doctoral projects must articulate two thesis projects in the following disciplines around the three pillars Care, Protect, Feed :
- Biology Health
- Plant biology
- Chemistry
- Ecology and evolution
- Electronics
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology
- Political Science
- Management
- Modeling
- Earth Sciences
- Water science
terms and conditions of deposit
Applicants for IDIL mirror doctoral projects must inform their team leaders and unit directors before submitting their project.
The project must be written in French or English, using the downloadable file below, and following the instructions given therein.
Directors are invited to submit their applications to the IDIL graduate program via the dedicated submission site(the submission module will be accessible from December 18, 2023) - Deadline January 22, 2024, 4pm CET
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at idil-team@umontpellier.fr
evaluation
The scientific quality of the project as a whole will be assessed by the University of Montpellier's Research Commission in the presence of the IDIL promoters.
Students will be selected by a 7-member PhD recruitment committee for each of the selected projects:
- 1 IDIL holder, or his or her representative
- 2 thesis directors
- 1 representative of each of the Doctoral Schools concerned (2 members DS)
- 1 representative of each of the laboratory managements concerned (2 UMR members)
3 candidates will be auditioned per subject (i.e. 6 in total for a mirror project)
calendar
- Campaign opening: December 11, 2023
- Opening of the deposit platform: December 18, 2023
- Deadline for submitting thesis projects on the IDIL website: January 22, 2024
- Dissemination of the results of funded mirror IDIL projects: Mid-March 2024
- Student auditions : May 2024
- Announcement of results to students : End-May2024
- Start of theses: October 2024 (duration 3 years)