Please note that PhD students enrolled in a doctoral programme at Sorbonne University are still considered students. However, when they are awarded a doctoral contract, this also gives them researcher status. Some specific procedures and resources that apply in these cases can be found in the “student” profile.
Lecturer and researcher profile
Select the “lecturer and researcher” profile if you are coming to Sorbonne University to teach or carry out research, either as academic staff hired by Sorbonne University or for a temporary period of research.
This profile is designed to centralise all the information you need and procedures to follow in connection with your time as a professional at the university, giving you easy access to resources and services for academic staff, such as administrative formalities relating to your employment contract and procedures related to moving to France and life off campus.
There are different types of international professional mobility. Choose the one that corresponds to your situation for the appropriate steps to take.
This type of professional mobility consists of completing a period of research or teaching in a foreign institution with which your home institution has a partnership agreement or as part of an official programme.
- International lecturers and researchers selected for exchange mobility at Sorbonne University under a framework or specific international cooperation agreement signed with their home institution and including this type of scheme.
- International lecturers and researchers selected for exchange mobility at Sorbonne University under a bilateral Erasmus+ agreement signed with their home institution or a multilateral agreement signed at the level of the 4EU+ European University Alliance.
- International lecturers and researchers selected for exchange mobility at Sorbonne University as part of an official programme (e.g. Hubert Curien Partnership).
- International lecturers and researchers selected for exchange mobility at Sorbonne University under a ‘visiting professor’ scheme.
This type of professional mobility consists of either being hired by a foreign institution or completing a period of research or teaching in a foreign institution with which your home institution does not have a partnership agreement. This is a personal initiative.
- Teachers and researchers hired by Sorbonne University as post-doctoral researchers or lecturers and researchers. These staff fall into the category of free movers.
- Visiting young researchers (PhD students) and visiting scholars who fall into the free movers category and who are completing a period of research at Sorbonne University without their home institution having signed a framework or specific international cooperation agreement with the university. These staff and PhD students fall into the category offree movers.
