1. CIFRE Grants for PhD – A few numbers Thomas Deschamps French consulate in San Francisco

2. Purpose To give PhD students exposure to two different environments : public research laboratory and industry To boost research and exchanges between academic laboratories and companies

3. Organization by ANRT 3 year contract with minimum gross annual salary of 23,5k Company receives 1k/year for 3 years Partnership contract Enrolled each year in doctoral school attached of laboratory Research Laboratory Company PhD Student

4. Progress report 14k PhDs awarded since 1981 7k companies involved 4k academic laboratories involved > 2k patents 20% foreign students in 2011

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6. Testimonial My joint work at CNRS and Philips Research Lab on Computer Vision for Medical Imaging & Diagnostics Application

7. More information? http://www.anrt.asso.fr cifre@anrt.asso.fr