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Post-doctoral Study Grants

The aim of the FYSSEN FOUNDATION is to “encourage all forms of scientific inquiry into cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, which underlie animal and human behaviour; their biological and cultural bases, and phylogenetic and ontogenetic development”.

The FYSSEN FOUNDATION will award grants for the training and support of POST-DOCTORAL ESEARCHERS
working on topics in keeping with the Foundation’s goal.

The Foundation will support researchs in domains such as:

. ETHOLOGY - PSYCHOLOGY
. NEUROBIOLOGY
. SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
. HUMAN PALEONTOLOGY - ARCHAEOLOGY

Futher informations about disciplines on our website :
http://www.fondationfyssen.fr

The FYSSEN FOUNDATION awards grants of maximum 30 000 Euros per year for a first post-doc fellowship with a PhD less than two years on September 1st of the year of application.

If the recipient has already reached its host lab, heshould be settled for no more than 3 months maximum
in the date of September 1st, 2018.

They address to young researchers 35-year-old maximum on the closing date.

Grants are intended to assist, all nationalities research scientists, holder of a foreign PhD who wish to work in French laboratories or research scientists, holder of a french PhD who wish to work in laboratories abroad
(except country of origin or joint thesis supervision).

Regarding the host laboratories located in France: the recipient hosted within a framework of a fixed-term
contract will have to make sure that a convention of co-financing can be signed between the Foundation and the laboratory to cover, in equal shares, the cost of the gross salary loaded with.

Grants are allocated from 12 months, not renewable, to 24 months subject to the approval of the Scientific
committee after examination of a report at the end of first year.

TO SUBMIT YOUR FILE

Log in, from
FEBRUARY 13th, 2018
on the Foundation website
http://www.fondationfyssen.fr

CLOSING DATE TO SUBMIT
YOUR APPLICATION :
APRIL 5th, 2018
12:00 am French time (Gmt+1)

Sending the application, in one hard copy by post, strictly identical to the web version (date as Postmark), to :« Secrétariat de la Fondation Fyssen, 194, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris- France »


Only applications entering the Foundation’s goals will be considered. All incomplete files will be rejected.

A question ? Contact us at + 33 (0)1 42 97 53 16 or at secretariat@fondationfyssen
194, rue de Rivoli - 75001 PARIS - France - http://www.fondationfyssen.fr