MOPGA Young Researchers Grant Program 2025: (Deadline 5 December, 2024)

Applications are open for the MOPGA Young Researchers Grant Program 2025. Launched in 2018, the MOPGA initiative has generated real enthusiasm at the international level, generating keen interest among students and high-level researchers. France, as a major player in the fight against climate change and guarantor of the spirit of the Paris Agreement, is launching a new MOPGA research grant program for young researchers with a view to working to strengthen scientific contributions to the climate change issues raised by the COPs.

This eighth call for projects from the Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) program, funded by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) and implemented by Campus France, will accommodate at least 60 young researchers wishing to carry out their research in France.

Research Themes

Five major research areas are eligible:

• Earth system sciences;
• climate change and sustainability sciences;
• the energy transition;
• the societal challenges of environmental issues;
• human, animal and environmental health as defined under the “One Health” approach.

Benefits

A minimum of 60 scholarships will be awarded to successful young researchers over a 12-month period starting in September 2025. 

This scholarship awards the following benefits: 

• Monthly allowance of 2,500 euros 
• Installation allowance of 500 euros
• Health insurance: coverage of health insurance, civil liability and repatriation assistance until affiliation to French social security;
• Supplementary health insurance: once social security affiliation is effective, coverage of supplementary health insurance, civil liability and repatriation assistance.

Eligibility

Researchers must:

• Have held a doctoral degree for less than 5 years on the date of submission of the application, i.e. have defended their thesis between December 2019 and December 2024 inclusive;
• Be exclusively of foreign nationality;
• Candidates must not have resided in France for more than 90 days between September 5, 2024 and December 5, 2024.

Deadline: 5 December, 2024)

Application

Documents required for application include:

• CV with list of publications (4 pages maximum);
• Doctoral degree (or diploma certificate);
• CV of the French research director for the research stay (2 pages maximum);
• Letter of commitment from the French host laboratory to provide the means to carry out the research project;
• Letter of recommendation (3 maximum);
• Copy of passport or national identity document.

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For more information, visit MOPGA Grant Program.