International training
programme
“Science has no native land, as knowledge is the heritage of humankind,
the torch that lights up the world.”
Louis PasteurThe Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) includes together 32 research and public health institutes
located on the five continents. The Network’s different activities stem from the Institut Pasteur’s three
mis-sions: scientific research, public health and training.
The RIIP’s purpose is to help increase the world’s scientific capabilities and human resources. In order to do
this, it develops training programmes with science and medical universities and local partners. The training
designed for the RIIP institutes’ local staff, researchers, technicians and external students helps to upgrade
professional profiles and skills that are recognised by all regional, national and international institutions.
The Institut Pasteur’s Calmette and Yersin fund is devoted to the Institut Pasteur International Network’s
trai-ning activities. It allows an ambitious traitrai-ning programme to be funded for international researchers and
scientists and offers a unique research training opportunity.
85
grants funded by the Institut Pasteur International
Division through the Calmette and Yersin programme:
94
international grants in 2011
40
grants to study in Paris6
conference grants39
traineeship grants of which 3 three-year doctoral grants in China(Shanghai), Hong Kong and Cambodia and 1 two-year postdoctoral scholarship in Cambodia
9
grants co-funded by the Institut Pasteur
International Division and partners:
2
grants from the International Cooperation Directorate of the Principality of Monaco
7
grants from the “Fondation Pierre
Ledoux jeunesse Internationale”
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eaching, along with Research and Public Health, is one of the three missions entrusted by Louis Pasteur to the institute that bears his name. Thus, since the creation in 1889 of the world’s first microbiology course, called “Technical Microbiology”, teaching and training are a main priority for the Institut Pasteur. Each year the Institut Pasteur Teaching Center in Paris offers theorical and practical courses to meet the expectations of biologists and healthcare professionals.Teaching and training are also a priority for the Institut Pasteur International network (RIIP). The training programs developed in partnership with local universities and institutions are intended for researchers, technicians and students from areas where the RIIP institutes are located. These programs contribute to strengthening professional profiles and capacities.
The Institut Pasteur, each year, supports more than 100 scientists from the RIIP with international grants to complete their training by following courses or traineeship in Paris, in an RIIP institute or in another research institution.
Personally and as a former teacher at the Institut Pasteur, I deeply care about the transmission of knowledge and the teaching of future researchers and public health experts all around the world.
I invite you to discover the training program of the Institut Pasteur International network.
Calmette and Yersin programme: Doctoral grants
For thesis within the Institut Pasteur
International Network
The Institut Pasteur International Division finances two doctoral grants each year to promote and facilitate thesis for French and foreign researchers within an institute of the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) outside metropolitan France. Any subject covered by RIIP institute laboratories: research into infectious diseases (infectious physiopathology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, parasitology) and public health activities (diagnosis, monitoring, resistance, etc.). These doctoral grants aim to promote mobility with the arrival in a new
environment. The PhD traineeship is therefore conducted in an institution where the candidate does not yet work, outside the home country and outside the country in which the person attended university. The doctoral students must attend a French or foreign university research school (local or otherwise).
The candidate must have a 5-year postgraduate degree. Candidates who have already begun their thesis may not apply.
3 years. All nationalities.
Fixed-term local contract with social charges covering living expenses and insurance (net amount of B1,400 per month) and a return air ticket between the country of origin and traineeship location.
One call for applications each year open from January to early September. AIm SubjecT mATTer elIgIbIlITy crITerIA QuAlIFIcATIoNS DurATIoN NATIoNAlITy FuNDINg cAll For APPlIcATIoNS
Calmette and Yersin programme: Postdoctoral grants
For postdoctoral traineeships within
the Institut Pasteur International Network
International training programme The Institut Pasteur International Division finances one postdoctoral scholarship each year to promote and facilitate postdoctoral traineeships for French and foreign researchers within an institute of the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) outside metropolitan France.
Any subject covered by RIIP institute laboratories: research into infectious diseases (infectious physiopathology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, parasitology) and public health activities (diagnosis, monitoring, resistance, etc.). These postdoctoral grants aim to promote mobility with the arrival in a new environment. The postdoctoral traineeship is therefore conducted in an institution where the candidate does not yet work, outside the home country and outside the country in which the person attended university.
The candidate must have a PhD. 2 years.
All nationalities.
Fixed-term local contract with social charges covering living expenses and insurance (net amount of B1,900 per month) and a return air ticket between the country of origin and traineeship location.
One call for applications each year open from January to May. AIm SubjecT mATTer elIgIbIlITy crITerIA QuAlIFIcATIoNS DurATIoN NATIoNAlITy FuNDINg cAll For APPlIcATIoNS
Calmette and Yersin programme: Traineeship grants
To facilitate mobility within the Institut Pasteur
International Network
AIm SubjecT mATTer orgANISATIoN QuAlIFIcATIoNS DurATIoN NATIoNAlITy FuNDINg cAll For APPlIcATIoNSThe Institut Pasteur International Division finances traineeship grants to promote and facilitate mobility among scientists (students, researchers and tenured technicians) in any of the Institut Pasteur International Network’s laboratories. The aim of the traineeship is to increase the trainee’s skills and strengthen the capabilities of the candidate’s institute.
Any subject covered by RIIP institute laboratories: research into infectious diseases (infectious physiopathology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, parasitology) and public health activities (diagnosis, monitoring, resistance, etc.). It must be consistent with the candidate’s research area. A selection committee decides how to allocate traineeship grants depending on the project’s relevance, the objectives of the internship and research programmes of the candidate’s institute.
The candidate may be a student (currently studying for a 5-year post-graduate degree) and/or a technician/engineer and/or tenured researcher.
2 weeks to 12 months. All nationalities.
Local contract (gross amount of B1,100 per month) covers living expenses (travel costs are borne by the candidate’s institution).
Calmette and Yersin programme: Study grants
For Institut Pasteur International Network scientists
International training programme These study grants, funded by the Institut Pasteur International Division,
aim to promote and facilitate participation of the Institut Pasteur International Network’s scientific staff (students, researchers, engineers and tenured technicians) to training courses provided by the Institut Pasteur in Paris, training workshops organised in a RIIP member institute or any other courses recognised by the International Division.
The courses may cover all area developed by the Institut Pasteur and RIIP laboratories: infectious diseases (infectious physiopathology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, parasitology), public health activities (monitoring, resistance) or quality assurance.
The training must be consistent with the candidate’s research area. The aim of the course is to top up the candidate’s initial training and increase skills in his or her research area.
Candidates must register online for the Institut Pasteur’s courses in Paris for the current academic year (http://www.pasteur.fr/inscription) and apply for International Division funding.
The course commission chooses candidates then the study grant Selection Committee decides study grant award based on the relevance of the course for the training of the candidate, its relevance to the applicant’s position in the institute and its relevance to the Institute.
Biologists, doctors, pharmacists, veterinary surgeons, researchers and students. Depending on the duration of the course.
All nationalities.
Financial aid (gross amount of B1,100 per month) for living expenses and registration fees for the course. Travel expenses stay chargeable to the candidate’s institute.
Open all year round. AIm SubjecT mATTer orgANISATIoN QuAlIFIcATIoNS DurATIoN NATIoNAlITy FuNDINg cAll For APPlIcATIoNS
Calmette and Yersin programme: Conference grants
For Institut Pasteur International Network scientists
These grants, funded by the Institut Pasteur International Division, aim at helping young scientists from the Institut Pasteur International Network to participate in international conferences.
The conference subject must be consistent with the candidate’s research area. The aim of the scholarship is to increase the candidate’s skills in his or her research area and improve the capabilities of the candidate’s institute.
The candidate’s application must include the conference scholarship application form with a conference summary and the oral presentation approval.
RIIP scientists (students, researchers and tenured technicians) whose oral presentation is approved.
Depending on the duration of the conference. All nationalities.
The conference grant amount is paid in a lump sum to the candidate’s institute (maximum of B1,500).
Open all year round. AIm SubjecT mATTer orgANISATIoN QuAlIFIcATIoNS DurATIoN NATIoNAlITy FuNDINg cAll For APPlIcATIoNS
Grants from the “Fondation Pierre Ledoux
jeunesse Internationale”
International training programme The “Fondation Pierre Ledoux Jeunesse Internationale”, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, seeks to contribute to youth training through greater knowledge of current international trends. These grants, as the product of a partnership between the Fondation de France and the Institut Pasteur, serve to finance biomedical research traineeships in developing countries within the Institut Pasteur International Network.
These grants will enable the recipients to expand their occupational training and human skills through field and laboratory experience in priority areas revolving around infectious diseases (clinical and epidemiological studies, vector-borne diseases, physiopathology), medical analysis or health and environmental issues (microbiology and chemistry).
These grants are designed for traineeships but not training courses. Candidates will conduct a traineeship project predefined with the host laboratory based on a list of proposed internships.
Young biologists, doctors, pharmacists, veterinary surgeons or young researchers and students.
2 weeks to 10 months. Students of French nationality.
Funding (B800 to B1,000 per month) for living expenses. Travel expenses are borne by the Institut Pasteur International Division when the student does not have a specific travel allowance.
Two calls for applications each year: mid-January and mid-September. AIm SubjecT mATTer orgANISATIoN QuAlIFIcATIoNS DurATIoN NATIoNAlITy FuNDINg cAll For APPlIcATIoNS
International training
Teaching: a priority for the rIIP
The RIIP develops regional and international courses in partnership with universities, health authori-ties and local partners.
Designed mainly for the network’s staff, these courses are also available to researchers, technicians and students from other institutions to increase skills that are recognised by all regional, national and international institutions.
examples of courses
• Malaria workshop – Institut Pasteur in Madagascar.
• Courses at the Hong Kong University-Pasteur Research Centre in cellular biology, virology and immunology.
• Global Foodborne Infectious Network (GFN) Courses on the monitoring of salmonella – Pasteur Centre in Cameroon, Institut Pasteur in Saint Petersburg, Madagascar and Tunis in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US.
• Bioinformatics course in North Africa, Asia and Latin America.
• Data analysis using STATA software – Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, Montevideo and Tunis.
• Theoretical and practical courses of the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo on new technologies for the Latin American scientific community.
• “EpiSouth training on Dengue and Biosafety in the lab”, Institut Pasteur, with participants from 19 countries in the Mediterranean-Balkan Region.
• International Course “Genomic Diversity and Health Population - GENOMEDIKA-1”, Institut Pasteur in Tunis, within the European project ERA-WIDE GM_NCD_InCo.
Technology transfer
For example, training at the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia on the diagnosis of avian influenza for African researchers.
Initial and further training in the rIIP:
improving capabilities
In 2011, twenty courses and workshops funded by the rIIP were provided in French and english in the different rIIP institutes in proteomics, genomics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology, new immunisation strategies, etc.
Institut Pasteur International Network
regional and international courses
International training programme • To facilitate and top up the training of scientists, particularly access to modern
scientific techniques, at different stages of their scientific career, through a wide range of courses.
• To teach new methods to ensure the transfer of technology.
• To strengthen scientific ties between RIIP researchers in the region and other countries.
• To facilitate the creation of innovative regional scientific projects stemming from these training courses.
To increase coordination and dialogue by offering training corresponding to priority matters in the region and particularly classes pertaining to clinical research. Any subject covered by RIIP institute laboratories: research into infectious diseases (infectious physiopathology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, virology, parasitology) and public health activities (diagnostics, monitoring, resistance, etc.). • Tutorials on innovative techniques (approx. 20 students). These tutorials will focus
on leading-edge technologies but also techniques that are vital in certain areas. • High-level theoretical classes (approx. 20-40 students). These classes will train
young scientists in their chosen subjects through a combination of high-quality tutorials and seminars using innovative teaching methods.
• Conferences / Seminars (preferably <200). This is to promote international conferences offering scientists a forum to discuss the latest discoveries in major research areas with world leaders in those fields.
• Distance training using online resources (E-Learning). 1 to 3 weeks.
The budget must be warranted and appropriate to the course format. External fundings are encouraged, the RIIP will fund no more than 80% of the total budget. Maximal funding: B30,000. AImS PrIorITy SubjecT mATTer clASSeS DurATIoN FuNDINg
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candidates receiving
funding agree to:
••• insert on all documents for written
and oral presentations (training report, slides, summary, poster, publication, etc.) the logo of the Institut Pasteur International Network and include the Institut Pasteur International Division and/or the “Fondation Pierre Ledoux Jeunesse Internationale” in their acknowledgements,
••• to send a training report to the
International Division no later than one month after the end of the training, ••• to take out travel insurance covering
repatriation, healthcare (illness and hospitalisation) and individual civil liability. For all scholarship applications priority will be given to first-time scholars: traineeship scholarship or study scholarship.
