Call for PhD projects

Eligibility requirements

• The project must be collaborative between two separate laboratories, with at least one of the two coordinators being a member of a core laboratory: Cermav, DCM, DPM, LCBM, LETI, MEM, or SyMMES. 
• Applicants who received funding in 2025 or 2026 for a doctoral or postdoctoral contract based on a project through an UGA funding scheme are not eligible to apply to this call, either as project leaders or co-leaders.

• The same project may only be submitted to one UGA funding scheme for doctoral or postdoctoral contracts (LabEx, CDP, Gates@UGA PhD Call – Grands Instruments, Gates Matching PhDs – MaCI, International Relations, etc.).

Selection criteria

• Scientific excellence of the project leaders and, if applicable, of the partners ;
• Suitability with the themes of the Labex Arcane
• Scientific quality of the project (originality, feasibility, work plan, etc.)
• Innovative nature of the project (emerging projects will be given priority)
• Structuring role of the project at the level of Grenoble chemistry

• A bonus will be awarded to projects whose principal investigators have received little or no funding for doctoral or postdoctoral contracts from ARCANE since its creation in 2012. Other ARCANE funding, in particular “tickets”, will not be taken into account.

Schedule

Call opening: October 21, 2026
Call closing: December 8, 2026 at 1pm

How to apply

Your project proposals must be sent to the following address: labex-arcaneuniv-grenoble-alpes.fr (labex-arcane[at]univ-grenoble-alpes[dot]fr)