Scholarships and grants will help cover all or part of your expenses during your stay in Icam. Funding may cover your living expenses or tuition fees (if needed), or both. The list below is non-exhaustive. We recommend that you also consult funding options offered at your home country or consult the Campus France Grant Search Engine.
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Created in 2010,
Campus France is an organization whose vocation is to promote French higher education abroad. Its main missions are : to promote the French higher education system, to welcome and help international students and reseachers, and to provide support for international mobility. Campus France provides information on grants or assistance provided by different governments (French and foreign), regional authorities, companies, foundations, and institutions of higher educations. Different programs are available depending on your nationality, field and level of studies. Campus France provides an inventory of the available funding possibilities on its
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The
Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program was established by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education institutions to attract top foreign students to enroll in their masters and PhD programs.
It gives the opportunity to the future foreign decision-makers of the private and public sectors, in priority areas of study, and encourages applicants up to 25 years old from developing countries at master’s level, and applicants up to 30 years old from developing and industrialized countries at PhD level.
- Application Deadline: January
La Fondation Féron-Vrau Student Loan
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The Féron-Vrau Foundation – which bears the name its two founders, Icam engineers themselves – issues
honor loans to students in order to offer equal opportunities and access to education. The loan is open to students in need of support for their tuition fees, with an almost 0% interest rate (based on the France’s inflation rate), and reimbursable within five years after graduation. Féron-Vrau works on a pay-it-forward basis, repayments of loan help finance future student loans. Please contact us for more information.
- Application Deadline: September
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The French government provides rental housing subsidy via the CAF’s (
Caisse des Allocations Familiales – the Family Allowances Fund) APL assistance (
Aide Perosnnalisée au Logement- the personal accommodation assistance). International students staying in France for more than 3 months can apply for this housing allowance.
Monthly subsidy is determined by the type of rental accommodation, and starts at around 80EUR/month. The CAF’s website provides a better view of the eligibility requirements and an estimation of the amount of student housing aid you may be entitled to.
Self-funding via Engineering Internship Work Placement
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Students performing internships via Icam’s Master in General Engineering, Double Degree programs or one-year academic exchange are entitled to compensation according to French law.
Employers will give you a salary of at least 650 EUR/month, although Icam students earn approximately 1000 EUR/month on average. This will help offset part of your expenditure while at Icam.
Country or Region-Specific Scholarship & Funding
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Erasmus+ is the European program for education, training, youth and sport. It supports academic mobility, develops partnerships, and reinforces the capabilities of academic and research institutes.
The Erasmus+ grants are available for study periods of 3 months and above, and may come in the form of contribution to travel and subsistence costs and exemption from tuition fees, depending on the agreement with the educational institutions and country of origin.
Please contact us for more information.
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BRAFITEC (
Brésil, France, Ingénieurs, Techologie) is an academic mobility program for engineering students created by a partnership between Brazil’s Fundação Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES – Coordination for the Development of Higher Level Personnel) and France’s Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) with the support of the CDEFI.
The program supports students participating in joint research projects (7 months minimum) between French and Brazilian institutions, and consists of mobility travel grants and living allowances. Please contact us for more details.
Fond de Solidarité – Société Générale Student Loan (Pointe-Noire, Democratic Republic of the Congo & Douala, Republic of Cameroon)
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Société Générale Cameroon recognizes the need to offer access to higher education, particularly to engineering studies, to Central African youth. To help in this development, Société Générale offers to cover 50% of the student’s tuition fees, at a reduced interest rate of 6%. Please contact us for more details.
- Application Deadline: March
