[France] The French Government Scholarship Program

The French Government, through the Embassy of France in Jakarta, has been providing excellence scholarships to Indonesian citizens for more than 28 years. In order to pursue its objective to improve Indonesian human resources, the Embassy of France will offer scholarships for the year 2009.

Those scholarships are given to government officials, lecturers, students, with a priority to those involved in a cooperation program between France and Indonesia, to undertake two kinds of training :

• Master degree (maximum duration of 2 years)
• Doctoral degree (maximum duration of 3 years, only on a shared cost basis)

Requirements

• Minimum diploma : bachelor degree / S1
• Fluent in English (or French)
• Less than 35 years old
• Minimum GPA score of 3 (except for fundamental sciences - 3,5)
• Submit all the documents specified in the application form

The selection committee will give priority to applicants who have already identified a master/PhD program and have had a positive answer from a French professor (or an acceptance letter).

Field of studies
Priority will be given to the following fields of studies :

• Engineering (water management, agronomy, civil engineering, information technology.. .)
• Sciences (biotechnologies, information and communication technologies, environment, risk and disaster management, energy, etc.)
• Public administration, economy
• Law and political sciences

Applications from students in other fields are nevertheless welcome, as acceptance will be primarily based on excellence.

Selection procedure

• First step : selection based on application form and required documents submitted
• Second step : motivation interview (French or English languages only) in Jakarta

Scholarship coverage :

• intensive French language course : length according to the applicant's needs and level (from survival course to extensive 11
• months program)
• monthly living allowance
• 1 return ticket
• tuition fees (in public institutions for programs taught in French only)
• insurance

Application deadline
All applications must be sent before the 15th of April 2009 at the following address :

Ambassade de France en Indonésie
Service de coopération et d'action culturelle
Jl Panarukan no 35
Menteng - Jakarta 10310

Please note that applications sent via e-mail and after the deadline will not be taken into consideration.

Campus France office in Jakarta may help you finding the study program that suits your project.

CAMPUSFRANCE INDONESIA
CCF Jakarta
Jl Salemba Raya no 25
Jakarta 10440
tel : (021) 310 18 84
campusfrance@ ccfjakarta. or.id

www.indonesia.campusfrance.org/
www.campusfrance.org

Flyer (PDF)
Application Form BGF09 (Word)
bannière (PDF)