NUMERICS, a new funding program for PhD programs

NUMERICS is a new CEA PhD fellowship program that was submitted by the Office for Doctoral Training Programs (SFRES) at the 2017 MSCA-COFUND call for proposals from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program and it has just been selected for funding. The selected PhD students will conduct research projects in the fields of numerical simulation, modelling and management of Big Data in selected CEA laboratories. The European grant amounts to € 3.9 million over the 5 years of the program.

NUMERICS, a new CEA PhD fellowship program that was submitted by the Office for Doctoral Training Programs (SFRES) at the 2017 MSCA-COFUND call for proposals from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, has just been selected for funding. The selected PhD students will conduct research projects in the fields of numerical simulation, modeling and management of Big Data in selected CEA laboratories. The European grant amounts to € 3.9 million over the 5 years of the program.

The NUMERICS project will grant 3-year fellowships to 10 new PhD students in 2018-2021, 15 in 2019-2022 and 25 in 2020-2023. The selection of the NUMERICS PhD students will be consistent with the PhD funding campaign organized yearly by INSTN and led by the High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. European funding (50%) will be completed by INSTN from its PhD program budget so that the laureates can be offered a PhD thesis contract fully paid by CEA. The scientific projects in the CEA laboratories will be completed by a specific professional training program at INSTN built by the INSTN program "Training through Research" managed by the SFRES.

For 2018, NUMERICS labeled thesis subjects open for applications will be selected from CEA's 2018 thesis list published on the INSTN website. After a first evaluation of the applications, short-listed candidates will be invited for an oral presentation in June-July 2018 before final selection.
Usual MSCA eligibility requirements shall apply to potential candidates, namely they shall not have resided in France more than 12 months during the three years prior to the submission of their applications.

The attribution of the H2020 funding to the CEA NUMERICS project demonstrates the recognition, by the European Union, of the quality of training through research carried out by CEA laboratories and INSTN, which is followed by a successful professional integration. With NUMERICS, INSTN can proceed with its successful activities towards the training of young researchers at CEA, that were initiated with the Eurotalents (2009-2013) and Enhanced Eurotalents (2014-2018) programs.

Published the 2 on march 2018