Eiffel scholarship program of excellence 2025-2026 – applications is open

Published October 25, 2022 · · Updated October 14, 2024 · 4 minutes · by Kamerpower ·

The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program was established by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education institutions to attract top foreign students to enroll in their masters and PhD programs. 

It gives opportunity to the future foreign decision-makers of the private and public sectors, in priority areas of study, and encourages applicants up to 30 years old from developing countries at master’s level, and applicants up to 35 years old from developing and industrialized countries at PhD level.

2025 CAMPAIGN TIMELINE

• Opening of the call for applications: week of December 4th.
• Deadline for the reception of applications by Campus France: January 7th.
• Publication of results: week of April 4th.

REGULATIONS

Eiffel Programme guide – Session. The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program is awarded to two types of studies:

• Masters level, for a duration between 12 and 36 months.
• Doctorate or PhD level, for research periods in France of up to 12 months, as part of a cotutelle or joint doctoral thesis supervision (preferably in 2nd year of PhD).

Eligibility

Nationality: this program is reserved for non-French nationals. Candidates with two nationalities, one of which is French, are not eligible.

Age: for master’s level, candidates must be no older than 30 on the date of the 2023 Campaign, that is, students born after March 1988. At PhD level, candidates must be no older than 35 on the date of the 2023 Campaign, that is, students born after March 1983.

Origin of applications: only applications submitted by French educational institutions are accepted. These institutions commit to enrolling scholarship holders on the academic program for which they have been selected. Applications submitted by any other means shall not be considered. Furthermore, any candidate nominated by more than one institution shall be disqualified.

Levels of study: scholarships are granted to candidates wishing to enrol on a master’s program, including at an engineering school, and for PhD students. The Eiffel Program does not apply to French-run master’s programs abroad. The Eiffel scholarship does not apply to training under an apprenticeship contract or a professional training contract.

Scholarship incompatibilities: foreign students who, at the time of application, have already been awarded a French government scholarship from another Program, are not eligible, even if the scholarship only covers health insurance.

FAQs

Eiffel master’s scholarship:

no application will be accepted for any student already rejected at an earlier application campaign, even if the application is submitted by a different institution or in another field of study. Students who have already been awarded an Eiffel scholarship at master’s level are not eligible to re-apply at master’s level.

Eiffel PhD scholarship:

Institutions may nominate a candidate who was previously awarded an Eiffel scholarship at master’s level for a scholarship at PhD level. Candidates who have already been awarded an Eiffel scholarship during their PhD cannot be awarded a scholarship for a second time. No application will be accepted for any student already rejected at an earlier application campaign, even if the application is submitted by a different institution or in another field of study.

Language skills: when pre-selecting non-French-speaking candidates, institutions must make sure that their language skills meet the requirements of its academic program.

Students studying at an academic program abroad have priority over those already living in France.

Only applications submitted by French higher education institutions are accepted.

• You are an institution and you have already participated in the Eiffel program => You should have received an email concerning the download of application files. If that is not the case, please contact campus France.
• You are an institution participating for the first time in the Eiffel Program => Please Contact us in order download the application files.
• You are a student interested in participating in the Eiffel program.

How do I apply for the Eiffel scholarship ?

Students cannot apply directly for the Eiffel Scholarship. Applications must be made through a higher education institution. If you are studying in two higher education institutions, you can only submit a single application. In order to apply, you must have already been accepted to a programme at Sciences Po.

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