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Call for master Internship Grant

2026

Grants for Master’s Internships

Launched in October 2022, this call aims to support the funding of Master internship grants related to at least one of the three Challenges of the CLand project and/or Cross-cutting projects.

Since its creation, the CLand Convergence Institute has been developing a Graduate Program to support the research conducted by its teams around three key challenges:

Challenge 1

Land-based climate mitigation

Challenge 2

Food, water and bioenergy security under climate change

Challenge 3

The transition towards integrated land management

The Cross-cutting Projects (CCPs) were launched as part of the Institute’s secondphase.

Integrating land-based mitigation measures for agriculture for Europe, Brazil, Global (C1)
Biophysical mitigation of climate change vs biogeochemical mitigation (C2)
Impact of land abandonment on soil fertility and soil carbon storage (C1)
Production and economic losses resulting from climate-related agricultural disasters in Europe (C2)
Carbon balance of ecosystems in France (C2)
Crop water deficit in Europe (C1)
The global food network: structure, dynamics and fragility (C2)
Food self-sufficiency and related trade-offs (C1)
Drivers of land use and land management at the global scale (C3)
Bioenergy scenarios at global scale under climate change (C3)
Rainwater shocks and economic growth at the global scale (C2)

Each year, several grants are available to fund six-month research internships for Master’s students in their second year or final-year engineering students. The proposed research topics must relate to at least one of CLand’s three Challenges.

In addition, the following aspects will be given greater emphasis and taken into account in the selection criteria:

Internships addressing the cross-cutting themes covered by the Cross-cutting Projects (CCPs) established by CLand (see above);
Internships co-supervised by two CLand laboratories;
Internships fostering collaboration between a CLand laboratory and a laboratory abroad, with the aim of strengthening international interactions.

Applicants proposing an internship topic must be affiliated with one of CLand’s partner laboratories and submit a project description using the designated template (available here).

The CLand Training Committee will assess the submitted proposals based on their scientific merit, their relevance to CLand’s Challenges, and their feasibility within the proposed timeframe. Particular consideration will be given to proposals incorporating the priorities outlined above.

Completed forms should be sent to: cland_formation@lists.lsce.ipsl.fr