Six students granted of the Eiffel Excellence Scholarships

Designed to support the international recruitment efforts of French higher education institutions, the Eiffel Scholarship Program was launched in January 1999 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Each year, it enables future foreign decision-makers from the public and private sectors to pursue Master’s and Doctorate degree programs.

The primary objective is to train future foreign decision-makers in French higher education institutions in three priority areas of study: science, economics and management, and law and political science. The second objective is to encourage applications from students from emerging countries, primarily in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the new EU member states, but also, at the doctoral level, from industrialized countries.

Out of eight applicants for master’s level scholarships, five candidates were granted scholarships to join AgroParisTech. Three recipients from Brazil, China, and Tunisia will join the engineering program in September 2026, and two recipients from Benin and Ireland will join the M1 Agrosciences, Environment, Territories, Landscape, Forest program and the M2 Climate, Land Use, and Ecosystem Services program.

This year, for the first time, the Doctoral Training Department and the International and European Relations Department submitted an application for an Eiffel scholarship at doctoral level to fund an 18-month thesis. This application was also successful. The recipient will be enrolled in a joint PhD program between the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar and AgroParisTech starting in the 2025-2026 academic year. He will be integrated into the UMR TETIS in Montpellier during his stay in France to work on the analysis of land certification in Madagascar and will spend the other part of his thesis at the Laboratory of Economics and Policy of Natural Resources at the Higher School of Agronomic Sciences of the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar.