As it does every year, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) calls on the services of experts to select scholarship holders for the Eiffel programme. This MEAE financial instrument is used to attract the best foreign students to degree courses at master’s and doctorate level.
The juries must respect three conditions: gender balance, balance between the representation of schools/universities, and regional balance, for the examination of applications at master’s and doctoral level divided into seven thematic areas:
- Biology and health ;
- Ecological transition ;
- Mathematics and Digital ;
- Engineering Sciences ;
- French history, language and civilisation
- Law and Political Science;
- Economics and management.
Experts must be teacher-researchers who hold a doctorate or habilitation to direct research (for doctoral students), with proven international experience and/or involvement in the recruitment of international students. Experts are appointed for a period of four years, renewable for further one-year periods.
The experts are paid on the basis of the number of applications they handle (eight euros per application). They receive an additional flat-rate grant of 150 euros for their involvement throughout the process. At the request of the MEAE, Campus France covers the experts’ travel, accommodation and meal expenses during co-pilot and jury meetings.
The experts receive an average of one hundred applications to examine over a period of three to four weeks (in February). The selection committee will then meet during the week of 17 March at the Campus France offices to make the final selection of the winners. Applications are assessed in pairs, and each pair’s assessment is then examined by all the pairs, in the presence of the MEAE and Campus France. The evaluation grid is based on the excellence of the candidates and the international policy of the institution submitting the application.
For the 2025 juries, the Ministry wishes to renew its pool of experts and is looking for :
- Three experts for the ‘Engineering Sciences and Engineering Sciences’ jury;
- One expert for the ‘Biology and Health’ panel;
- Two experts for the ‘Mathematics and Numeracy’ panel;
- Two experts for the ‘Ecological Transition’ panel.
The institutional conferences are asked to forward applications from staff interested in joining the pool of experts.
Anyone wishing to apply should send their details and CV to Jelena Djordjevic: no later than 12 November 2024 and inform Centrale Lille’s International and Academic Relations Department: