Support l'X International Opportunities
© Jérémy Barande, École polytechnique
École Polytechnique, backed by its Foundation, offers a range of ambitious programs to support research, innovation, and international mobility. Aimed at students, PhD candidates, faculty, researchers, and staff, these programs are designed to strengthen the institution’s standing and attractivity on the global academic stage.
École Polytechnique offers unique international research opportunities to develop large-scale scientific projects, thanks to various programs supporting international mobility and collaboration, such as the Erasmus+ program, fostering intra-European and international exchanges for over 30 years, or through targeted initiatives like the Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor program, which hosts renowned researchers for research and teaching stays.
Committed to addressing societal challenges, l’X also supports innovative programs such as the SDG PhD fellowships, which provide financial support to doctoral students whose work contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Other schemes, such as the Launching packages, the S.S. Chern Young Faculty Award, and specific grants for early-career researchers and professors, further demonstrate the institution’s commitment to promoting excellence and independence in research.
Attractivity
The Launching Packages provide newly recruited researchers and faculty with the resources they need to successfully launch their research programs at École Polytechnique. Funding is available for the purchase of essential equipment, PhD and postdoctoral fellowships to build up a research team, operating expenses, fieldwork, conference attendance, and internship grants.
The program is supported by the Foundation of École Polytechnique.
Claire Leclech, CNRS researcher at École Polytechnique’s Hydrodynamics Laboratory, and Annalaura Stingo, Professor at École Polytechnique’s Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center, were awarded Launching Packages on June 2, 2025. © Jérémy Barande, École Polytechnique
Founded in 2002, the Alliance Program is an academic partnership between Columbia University (New York) and three French higher education institutions: École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The Alliance program has supported collaborative research initiatives and mobility between Columbia University and its French partners for over twenty years.
Call for applications for 2026/2027
Apply now for the Alliance Program’s 2025 Call for Applications. Opportunities include Visiting Professorships, Doctoral Mobility, Joint Projects, and T.I.E.R. initiatives—advancing research and collaboration between Columbia University and our French partners.
Deadline to apply: December 31st, 2025
More information can be found here: https://alliance.columbia.edu/
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Established in 2023, the S.S. Chern Young Faculty Award is a dedicated program for outstanding early-career researchers within École Polytechnique’s Mathematics and Applied Mathematics departments. Award recipients benefit, throughout a three-year time period, of funding allowing them to advance their specific research project. This program is supported by the Foundation of École Polytechnique.
Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni, professor at École Polytechnique and researcher at its Hydrodynamics Laboratory, and Alain Oliviero Durmus, professor at École Polytechnique and researcher at its et membre du Center for Applied Mathematics, received the Shiing-Shen Chern Young Faculty Award on June 26, 2023. © Corinne Hameau, École Polytechnique
International
The Erasmus+ program promotes and supports international mobility for students (study exchanges or internships), doctoral students, researchers, professors, and staff of higher education institutions. Erasmus+ builds on over 30 years of successful programs provided by the European Union for education, training, and youth and comprises intra-European and international cooperation.
Learn more about the Erasmus + Program 👉 : ici.
The Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor Program allows top-level researchers from around the world to join École Polytechnique for a period of 4 to 12 months to conduct research in one of the institution’s 23 laboratories and teach as a visiting professor. The program is supported by the Foundation of École Polytechnique.
Learn more about the Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor Program 👉: ici.
Sustainability
Launched in 2024, the Program for PhD theses integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG Theses) The program supports several doctoral students with three years of funding for their thesis projects. To be eligible, the thesis topic must contribute to addressing at least two of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The program is supported by the Foundation of École polytechnique.
Learn more about the SDG thesis program 👉 : ici.
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