Contrat doctoral régional — Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The Contrat doctoral régional is a funded doctoral contract offered by the Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté for students undertaking a doctorate at the Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It supports research across all academic disciplines and requires a validated doctoral project and stable funding endorsed by the relevant doctoral school. The contract provides a monthly salary or allowance, comprehensive social coverage linked to employment status, and institutional support to carry out the thesis.

Monthly salary or allowance; comprehensive social coverage; institutional support for doctoral research.

Applicants must hold a Master's degree or equivalent allowing doctoral registration, have a research project validated by a doctoral school of the Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, present a dossier demonstrating solid and sustainable funding, and meet the host institution's admission requirements.

Identify a research topic and secure a thesis supervisor at UBFC, submit the research project to the relevant doctoral school, obtain evaluation and approval of sustainable funding by the doctoral school, finalize administrative registration for the doctorate.