France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship Programme

• Monthly allowance of EUR 1,200 at master's level and EUR 2,000 at doctoral level (rates effective 1 January 2026).
• Master's duration: up to 12 months for entry into M2, up to 24 months for entry into M1, up to 36 months for an engineering programme.
• Doctoral duration: 12, 18 or 36 months from 1 September of the award year; stays may be split into periods of at least 6 months (not for 36-month awards).
• International airfare in the cheapest class, reimbursed up to 50% of the ministry's maximum rate for the country concerned, plus second-class train or bus travel to the study location. Return travel is covered on the same terms and must be requested within 12 months of the end of the scholarship.
• Health insurance, help finding housing and cultural and leisure activities organised by Campus France.
• Tuition and course fees are not paid by the programme. French government scholarship holders are exempt from tuition for national degrees and the engineer diploma at public institutions under the Ministry of Higher Education.
• A language course before the programme can be funded for at most one month (from August) only if it is declared in the application; its cost is not covered.
• Scholarship is suspended during internships or exchanges abroad unless they are mandatory in the curriculum; an internship in the recipient's home country ends the scholarship.

2027 call: applications open in October 2026. Campus France must receive institutions' applications by 6 January 2027 (inclusive). Results are published from 12 April 2027. Studies must start between 1 September and 30 November 2027.

1. Contact the French institution where you want to study and ask whether it takes part in the Eiffel programme and will nominate you.
2. The institution requests the application files from Campus France ([email protected] for first-time institutions) and submits your file.
3. Campus France must receive the file by 6 January 2027.
4. Results are published from 12 April 2027.
5. Once selected, send Campus France your certificate of enrolment and your social security (or CEAM) enrolment certificate, and use the Mon Espace Boursier online portal to manage your file.

Contact: Campus France, Programme France Excellence Eiffel, 28 rue de la Grange-aux-Belles, 75010 Paris, [email protected].

Official programme page | Programme regulations (PDF)

Application files are prepared by the nominating institution. After selection, recipients provide: place of residence, email and telephone, a certificate of academic enrolment each year, proof of enrolment in the national health insurance scheme (Securite sociale or CEAM), an evaluation form at the end of the first semester and an end-of-year performance form (or a doctoral committee report for PhD candidates), each completed by the institution.

Selection is competitive and made by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs among applications submitted by institutions. Recipients must meet the academic requirements of each year to keep receiving the scholarship, and are expected to sit all examinations. Repeating a year suspends the scholarship. Publications must acknowledge the support of the Ministry.