CIFREs - ANRT

LaboratoriesBoost your research with a CIFRECIFREs enable you to position your PhD students in primescientific and financial environments for carrying out theirstudies. You can prepare your students for working in research andinnovation, while offering them a genuine professional careerpath.You focus your research activities on the challenges of companystrategy and needs, and acquire the potential to transfer anddevelop your research. You gain access to a field of experience orincreased technological potential. You create long-lastingrelationships with a company.You give your researchers the chance to suggest new concepts,combining fundamental approaches with the development ofconcrete solutions in response to companies’ needs.Recruited on either a permanent or a 3-year* contract by thecompany, the PhD student is enrolled in the doctoral schoolattached to your team and has access to all available courses. Theparticularly high rates of thesis defence and doctors’ employabilityprove the success of this type of research-based training.You sign a collaboration contract with the company, which setsout the conditions for research and for sharing the rights of theresults.100%75%50%25%0%1200Thesis defence rates by scientific field93%86%91%79%Results for 11,808 CIFREs since 1981MSS ES LES EHSSMaterial Science &StructureEngineering SciencesLife & Earth SciencesEconomic, Human& Social Sciences21%To host a CIFRE PhD student:You must be a research laboratory that is part of auniversity, school or public research body.Be a recognized research team attached to a doctoralschool.Foreign laboratories are eligible when they are jointsupervisors with a French body.Yearly progress in CIFRE figures1000800114600140We come and present the CIFRE process to your M-level studentsupon request, throughout the year.4003020002000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007187* Art. D 1242 - 3 & 6 of the French work code