Saturday, October 31, 2015

#French major #Thales to sponsor PhD fellowships for #IISc students

French defence major Thales and the Indian Institute of Science has signed an agreement to create a jointly supervised doctoral fellowship scheme.The new IISc - CNRS PhD fellowship scheme is scheduled to start at the end of 2015.


Antoine Caput, VP & Country Director–India, Thales, said, “We are proud to associate with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to facilitate and promote research and development (R&D) in India.Through this significant MoU, we look forward to contribute to the Indian government’s mission of skilling and up-skilling people, and its focus on enhancing the R&D fields in India.”

In the first edition of this new programme, up to 4 fellowships from India will be funded. The students benefiting from these Jointly Supervised PhD fellowships will have a PhD supervisor in India and a co-supervisor in France from one of the identified CNRS(Centre national de la recherche scientifique or French National Centre for Scientific Research) laboratories.

The students benefiting from these jointly supervised fellowships will have a PhD supervisor in India and a co-supervisor in France (from one of the identified CNRS laboratories).

“I hope this program acts as a catalyst for a long-term mutually beneficial research collaboration between our organisations", said  Prof.Dr.Jayant Modak, Deputy Director, IISC, Bangalore

A joint degree option between IISc and French Institutions will be explored in the future.