NEW Scholarships offered by the French Institute of Pondicherry NEW
The French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) offers 7 (seven) doctoral scholarships in the fields of Ecology, Indology and Social Sciences. The scholarships are open to people of all nationalities who wish to work on a topic that is in relation with the research programmes conducted at the IFP.
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The Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP) is a financially autonomous institution under the dual supervision of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MAEE) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Established subsequent to the Treaty of Cession of French Territories in India, the French Institute of Pondicherry was inaugurated on 20 March 1955 and visited the same year by the then Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The mission of the IFP is defined in the Article 24 of the Treaty of Cessation of French Territories in India (1956), as an Establishment for Higher Studies and Research.
Focusing on the regions of South and South East Asia, the IFP’s research expertise lies in the three fields of Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology.
The Department of Social Sciences promotes research on the major questions of society and on the relations between human societies and their environment. Areas of study include social management of water, urban development, demography and social mobility, finance and debt, impact of industrialization on rural systems, diffusion of new technologies, traditional health care systems and health problems related to the spread of transmittable diseases.
The Department of Ecology centres its research on biodiversity and notably on the functioning of fragile ecosystems (forests, mangroves...), by considering man as an important parameter in their evolution. It conducts research that aims to understand and evaluate the biological diversity of natural as well as anthropised ecosystems, with the objective to contribute to the establishment of schemes for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. A significant space is given to research on palaeoenvironments on the basis of an important collection of pollens.
