AID Theses (Thèses AID)
Funds doctoral research in defense innovation through universities and research organizations in France.
Thèses AID is Agence de l'innovation de défense's annual doctoral allocation line. It sits inside the French defense innovation agency's portfolio and funds defense-relevant PhD work through three parallel tracks: IDEES AID, Cifre-Défense, and AID Classiques. The common thread is research aligned with AID's published priorities rather than open-ended academic supervision. The program runs as a grant route in France and is built around universities and research organisations, with companies also able to participate through the Cifre-Défense track. The record points to 100 to 130 doctoral allocations each year, but it does not surface a per-award amount in the extracted fields. That makes the scale clear even when the financial detail is not. Strong applications connect a thesis topic to a defense problem, a research lab capable of delivering it, and a clear supervision or partnership structure. Because the cycle is annual, the best timing is to arrive with a well-formed research question and the right institutional backing.
No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.