The projects that have been pre-selected as part of CARe’s 2026 call for PhD proposals are available via this link.
PhD candidates for the preselected projects will submit the full proposal to Christa Rachelle Joseph () and Scarlett Weale ()
At this step, PhD candidates must be identified and are asked to send a complete CV. In addition, it is mandatory to provide a full description of the 3-6 months internship, including a signed certificate from the hosting foreign university or from industry.
The files must be submitted as a single PDF before May 8th, 2026. Applicants will defend their proposal in late June 2026, in front of a jury representative of the CARe Graduate School, with delegates from Toulouse partner doctoral schools.
The audition will consist of 12 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of questions. The presentation and the answers to questions must be done in English.
The presentation must include, in this order, 1 title slide, 1 slide presenting the candidate. The rest of the slides are dedicated to the presentation of the project (scientific justification of the research project, strategy, methodology, feasibility and risk management), including a description of the internship abroad or in industry. The following criteria will be evaluated by the jury: discussion of a previous research experience, quality of the oral presentation and of the response to questions.
Several detailed PhD subject pre-proposals are published below.