PhD Positions & Scholarships in France 2026–2027: 27+ Open
27 verified phd positions & scholarships in france for 2026–2027 are open right now. The soonest deadline is 31 October 2026 — closing-soon entries are flagged in the list. Hosted by Campus France, Bioceb Consortium (AgroParisTech) and CNRS. Listings are re-verified daily against official sources.
Bioceb trains engineers for the sustainable bioeconomy, combining biological and chemical engineering across a consortium coordinated from AgroParisTech. The 2027-2029 application round runs from 3 November 2026 to 19 January 2027 (11:30 Paris CET), giving bioengineering applicants a clear early-season target.
DENSYS Consortium (Université de Lorraine) · France
DENSYS trains engineers for decentralised smart energy systems across Université de Lorraine, KTH, UPC and Politecnico di Torino. The 2026 round closed on 26 January at 18:00 Paris time, and the 2027 round is expected to use the same date for its scholarship applications.
France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship 2027: French government funding for top international students - €1,181/month at master's level, €1,700/month at PhD level, plus travel and insurance. Institutions submit by 6 January 2027.
EMILDAI sits at the crossroads of law, data protection and AI, offered by six partner universities led from Avignon. Applications for the 2027/2029 editions open in November 2026; the previous round closed on 25 January 2026, a date the new cycle is expected to mirror.
EMINENT is an Erasmus Mundus master dedicated to embedded and cyber-physical systems, delivered by a European consortium of technical universities. The programme page carries the live application dates, scholarship information and mobility structure for the next cohort.
EMJM Imaging is an Erasmus Mundus master dedicated to imaging science — from medical imaging to photonics and computational imaging — delivered by a French-led consortium. The 2027-2029 application dates had not been posted at the time of checking; the previous round closed in early January 2026, so a similar timeline is likely.
EPOG trains economists to understand and shape the emerging bifurcation of the global economy, with tracks in macroeconomics, financial systems and development led from Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne partners. The 2027 intake round closes on 27 January 2027 at 13:00 Paris time.
EU-CORE Consortium (École Centrale de Nantes) · France
EU-CORE is the European master on control of renewable energy systems coordinated by École Centrale de Nantes with European partners. Scholarship applications open on 1 November 2026 and close on 31 January 2027 (11:59 pm GMT), with a second scholarship window noted until mid-May in the consortium's schedule.
EU4M is the Erasmus Mundus master in mechatronic engineering coordinated from ENSMM Besançon with mobility through Spanish and German partner campuses. Scholarship rounds in recent cycles closed on 15 January, and the 2027 intake application window is already being promoted by the consortium.
EURECOM, based in the Sophia Antipolis technology park near Nice, runs graduate programmes in digital science — AI, cybersecurity, telecommunications and data — plus doctoral studies with its labs and industrial partners. Its admission portal manages both taught-programme rounds and rolling PhD recruitment.
Partially FundedMerit-based tuition waivers and lab-funded PhD contracts
EuroPhotonics is the long-running Erasmus Mundus master in photonics coordinated from Aix-Marseille with partners in Barcelona and Karlsruhe. The 2027-2029 recruitment campaign runs from 1 November 2026 to 4 February 2027, covering photonics engineering, biophotonics and quantum-light specialisations.
Europubhealth+ is a two-year Erasmus Mundus public health master delivered by eight European universities, with seven specialisation tracks from biostatistics to health-systems governance. For the 2027-2029 intake the scholarship deadline is 8 January 2027 at 13:00 CET, and self-funded applicants have until 24 March 2027.
Greenano Consortium (Université de Lorraine) · France
Greenano trains materials scientists in nanomaterials for green-energy applications — batteries, catalysis and energy conversion — coordinated from Université de Lorraine. Its dedicated application portal carries the 2027 campaign dates, document checklist and scholarship details.
ILSPSD is an Erasmus Mundus master in the international law of security, peace and sustainable development, and its second intake (2027-2029) is now open with the scholarship deadline on 4 January 2027. Self-funded applicants get until 31 March 2027, which makes this one of the more flexible law-focused Mundus options this cycle.
JANUS Consortium (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) · France
JANUS is the Erasmus Mundus master in security and defence coordinated from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, with mandatory mobility between Lyon and Beirut Saint-Joseph and options in Granada, Bucharest and Essex. The first cohort's applications closed on 6 March 2026, and the 2027-2029 round is expected to follow the same early-March pattern.
✓ Fully Funded€1,400/month for 24 months (EMJM scholarship)
LASCALA trains physicists in large-scale accelerator and laser technologies, including the facilities that power research at institutes like CERN and ELI. The class of 2027-2029 campaign opened on 2 November 2026, with the scholarship deadline on 17 February 2027 and a self-financed window to 30 April 2027.
Master ChemoInfo at the University of Strasbourg trains chemoinformatics specialists at the interface of chemistry and computing — a niche with strong pharma and materials demand. The current selection procedure covers the 2026-2028 intake, which the consortium has confirmed will run without Erasmus Mundus scholarships.
Partially FundedThe consortium has announced that the 2026-2028 student
Admission round for the live intakeDetails Details
MERGED trains membrane engineers for water treatment, gas separation and sustainable industrial processes across a French-coordinated consortium. Each year's call, with its scholarship deadline and mobility options, is published on the programme's application-procedure page.
META4.0 prepares engineers for the Industry 4.0 transition — smart manufacturing, industrial IoT, digital twins and data-driven production — across an Erasmus Mundus consortium of technical universities. Each year's call, including the exact closing date and scholarship places, is published on the programme site.
MOPGA (Make Our Planet Great Again) is France's research programme attracting international scientists to work on climate, earth sciences and the energy transition through doctoral and postdoctoral funding hosted at French institutions. Campus France publishes each year's call — including the application window and eligibility — on the MOPGA page.
The Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (UMR 7598), run jointly by CNRS and Sorbonne Universite in Paris, advertises a six-month postdoctoral position in microlocal analysis (post-doctorat en analyse microlocale). The project concerns the mathematical analysis of wave propagation, partial differential equations and related questions in microlocal analysis, within the DANIVA project framework.
✓ Fully FundedEUR 4,000 gross per month (6-month postdoctoral CDD)
PRISM (PhD Research Programme for International Training in Sustainable Soft Matter) offers up to 14 fully funded PhD fellowships at PSL University in Paris. Projects focus on eco-friendly chemical processes, circular economy, renewable energies, and carbon capture. Application deadline: 31 October 2026.
SPACEMED is the Erasmus Mundus master in physiology and medicine of humans in space, coordinated from Caen with European space-medicine partners. The 2027 intake campaign opened on 21 October 2026 and closes on 21 January 2027 at 23:59 CET, with admissions announced in early April.
TELME is a two-year Erasmus Mundus master in teaching foreign languages in a multicultural environment, delivered by five European universities with two national degrees at the end. The Cohort 2 campaign for the September 2027 intake opened on 3 October 2026 and closes on 10 January 2027 at 12:00 Paris time, with scholarship files due by 3 January.
