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	Introduction Guidelines Application Contact us The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States. Every year, it allows students enrolled in American universities - PhD Candidates or Post docs - to conduct research in a French laboratory (public or private) for a 6 to 10 month period of time. This program has two main goals : 1. To allow American researchers to benefit from an experience in one of the best laboratories in France 2. To develop scientific cooperation between France and the United States. Chateaubriand recipients receive: allowances of 2055 Euro a month for doctoral and 2466 Euro a month for post-doctoral fellows a round-trip ticket health insurance abroad The research would be performed in a French university, a school of engineering, a national laboratory or a private enterprise. In such case, the fellowship can be co-sponsored by the interested French company. No particular level of French is required: French lessons may be available upon arrival in France. Application is open on line during the months of November and December 2008 for internship beginning from September 2009 to March 2010. The number of Chateaubriand Fellowships each year is limited and the awarding of fellowships is highly selective. Factors considered in an evaluation of a candidate's application: Curriculum vitae, list of publications, and academic transcripts Quality and relevance of proposed research project Preference will be given to research projects which are in the frame of a French-American collaboration that is already supported by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the USA Letters of recommendation Letter of invitation French laboratory considered in the candidate's research proposal