Programme PHC Galilée is a bilateral scientific-cooperation program supporting new collaborations between research laboratories in France and Italy. It is established by the relevant French and Italian ministries, with UFI/UIF managing the Italian side and Campus France and the French Embassy in Rome managing the French side.
The 2027 call supports reciprocal research-team mobility from 1 January 2027 through 31 December 2028. It particularly seeks meaningful participation by early-career researchers, including doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.
Benefits & funding
- Funding runs for two consecutive years and supports mobility rather than the underlying research itself.
- For French participants, eligible support covers subsistence at EUR 180 per day and actual France–Italy return travel costs up to EUR 400 per trip.
- As an indication only, French participants received EUR 3,888 per project per year in 2025; the annual amount may change.
- The Italian and French groups are financed separately by their respective program administrators.
Eligibility
- Applications must come from research laboratories attached to higher-education institutions or research organizations in France and Italy.
- Companies may join when associated with a French academic partner.
- The French and Italian research partners must submit the same project to the responsible platform in their own country.
- A project led by the same principal investigator with the same partner is ineligible if it received program funding during the previous five years.
- All research fields were eligible for the 2027 call; the program states no nationality, residency, age, gender, degree, or work-experience requirement for individual team members.
Can you apply?
Open to all applicants
No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.
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Application process
- 1Form a French–Italian laboratory partnership and prepare one shared project with a balanced mobility plan.
- 2The French principal investigator creates and completes the project in the Campus France researcher portal, while the Italian partner completes the corresponding submission through UFI/UIF.
- 3Attach the required one-page PDF CV for each participant, including professional experience, five major publications, and the requested publication-impact details where relevant.
- 4Both partners formally submit matching applications through their national platforms; a one-sided submission is not admissible.
Program timeline
12 March 2026
Online applications opened for the 2027 call.
Joint application deadline; the call is now closed.
15 May 2026
Results are scheduled for publication.
From December 2026
Supported project period begins.
1 January 2027
Supported project period ends.
31 December 2028