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The Internship programme endeavours to promote Inria as a prestigious training-through-research institution to the best universities worldwide and to attract their most outstanding students to come and visit one of the IPT (Inria project-teams).

The programme is aimed at undergraduate as well graduate students working on a Master’s degree or PhD. It coordinates the selection of students in order to assist Inria researchers in hosting excellent interns in their fields, and to give the interns a taste for working in an international scientific environment and the desire to return to Inria for a doctoral thesis or post-doctoral research.

This incentive programme makes provision for the supervision and training through research of foreign interns by Inria project-teams researchers. It enables them to benefit from financial support for their research visit to France. Internships at Inria contribute to the interns’ scientific, professional and personal development.
In the case of a research visit for Master’s or PhD students, an extended stay must in principle be accompanied by co-supervision from an Inria researcher who is recognised as such by their university back home.

Definition of the programme

 The programme enables Inria to welcome foreign students who wish to complete an internship or research visit in France within an Inria project-team as part of:

  •  an end-of-course project;
  • a master’s degree;
  •  a PhD;
  • post-doctoral research.

 The length of the internship may vary:

  •  from 2 to 4 months for an end-of-course project
  • from 4 to 9 months for a research visit as part of a master’s or PhD thesis.

Financing

Students receive a grant ranging from €1,100 net for Master’s students and engineers to €1,200 for PhD students. Half of this grant is paid by the International Relations Department and the other 50% by the Inria project-team, including EGIDE administration fees.

How to apply

The Internships programme offers two recruitment routes: an open call for interns and a targeted call for interns.

An open call for interns:

Inria’s 2012 Internships campaign (Open Call) is now over.  Please see the "Selection" tab below for more information.

Each autumn, Inria project-teams are invited to suggest research subjects for internships for end-of-course or master’s projects. Inria sends its partner institutions the internship subjects proposed by the Inria project-teams and asks for applications. The International Relations Department circulates among the Inria project-teams the list of candidates submitted by the partner institutions.
Each internship supervisor selects a candidate and informs the International Relations Department of this choice. The agreement of the International Relations Department is essential for finalising the selection. The International Relations Department communicates the final agreement, together with the allocated budget, to the internship supervisor and the Human Resources Department of the research centre hosting the student.

A targeted call for interns

Within existing collaborations between an Inria team and a foreign team, a researcher may offer to host a master's or PhD candidate after selecting him or her with the partner team.
Students may be hosted at any time during the year, subject to budgetary constraints. The French co-supervisor must then submit an application form on the International Relations Department portal. This must include the research subject, a presentation of the collaboration, the candidate's CV, the details of how the PhD thesis or master’s degree will be conducted and financed, and a reference from each supervisor. The agreement of the International Relations Department is essential for finalising the selection. The International Relations Department communicates the final agreement, together with the allocated budget, to the internship supervisor and the Human Resources Department of the research centre hosting the student.

Please follow this link to submit an internship subject as part of this "targeted call" procedure.

  • In the event of repeated visits, the researcher is invited to reapply each year.

Special case of co-supervised PhD theses

Foreign students registered for a co-supervised thesis may, as part of a targeted call for interns, receive support from the International Relations Department for their time in France.
 However, the co-supervisors will first try to find other sources of funding, with the help of the International Relations Department if required.

Selection

Depending on the budget available for the Internships programme, some simple selection rules will be applied:

  •  The International Relations Department will, as a matter of priority, offer funding to master’s or PhD students to support existing programmes or collaborations.
  •  The quality of the partner institution and its previous dealings with Inria is an important selection criterion.
  •  For budgetary reasons, we cannot, in this year’s open calls for interns, accept more than one application per supervisor, and, special cases apart, more than 2 internships per research team.

Inria’s 2012 Internships campaign (Open Call) is now over:

 This year we received over 330 applications for approximately 145 internship research topics.  INRIA researchers carried out a first round of selection of candidates which was followed by a second round of selection by the International Relations Department. We chose to retain about 50 internship research topics (and therefore as many candidates) and offer them some financial support (roughly, about 50% of the intern’s allowance). These internship positions will start in the spring or summer of 2012.

  •  You will find below the list of subjects and candidates accepted by the International Relations Department:

  https://idal-siege.inria.fr/dri/IS_Stage_Liste_Resultat.php
    Unfortunately, for legal reasons, this list is only accessible with restricted access (via Inria’s LDAP login).

  •  Successful applicants should all have already been contacted by the supervisor who selected them.  If you have applied for an internship at INRIA within the 2012 Open Call campaign, and if you have not heard from us by 01/03/2012, you can conclude that your application has not been successful.

Evaluation / monitoring of the programme

All researchers who host an intern in the scope of the Internship programme must undertake to send a brief report to the International Relations Department. A template will be provided for this report which contains information on the partner institutions, the merits of the programme, and the future of the students. The intern also undertakes to send a brief evaluation report to the International Relations Department at the end of the internship.

Hosting of foreign interns

Important: Approval by Defence & Security official and Visa

Administrative formalities must be completed in order to be able to enter and stay in France.

  •  These differ depending on whether the person concerned is a national of a European Union Member State or a third country.
  • For further information, you can visit the website of the National Alfred Kastler Foundation.

It is necessary to anticipate all aspects relating to the hosting of foreign nationals in order to make their integration as smooth as possible. Alongside the actions taken with regard to the entry and residence of foreign nationals, the procedure of authorisation by the Defence and Security Official should also be followed. This procedure must be undertaken two months before the date of actual arrival or the opening of an IT account for the foreign visitor. The request for authorisation is the responsibility of the Research Team Assistant and is processed using the tool partage.Inria.fr/alfresco. It is detailed in the ‘Procedure for electronic management of Defence and Security Official applications’. This document is available in the tool partage.Inria.fr.

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