Chongqing Normal University’s Chinese Government Scholarship International Summer School includes a 15-day black-hole physics track taught in English in Chongqing. The 2026 track runs from September 10 to 25 and lists three participant places.
The university’s College of Physics and Electronic Engineering is named for the project. A preceding 2025 black-hole physics summer program focused on research topics including the information paradox, singularities and event-horizon microstructure, while the detailed 2026 schedule is not published on the accessible program pages.
Benefits & funding
- The China Scholarship Council supports tuition, accommodation, living expenses and comprehensive medical insurance under its summer-school standards.
- Participants pay their own airfare.
- Chongqing Normal University may supplement costs above the standard budget, depending on actual enrollment, and will decide whether the program proceeds based on enrollment.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be foreign nationals who are enrolled at undergraduate level or above at an overseas higher-education institution or organization, or who are in-service teachers or young researchers affiliated overseas.
- Foreign students and scholars currently studying or working at institutions in China are not eligible.
- The black-hole physics track is taught in English.
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Application process
- 1Open the official application form and select the China–Brazil black-hole physics summer-school project.
- 2Complete the personal, academic and overseas-affiliation fields in Chinese or English.
- 3Upload a passport information page, highest-degree certificate, current enrollment or employment certificate and one-inch identification photo.
- 4Upload the signed declaration and submit the form once; contact Chongqing Normal University by email if information later changes.
Program timeline
Application announcement published.
May 8, 2026
June 30, 2026
Published application deadline; the notice says recruitment may continue until all places are filled.
Program starts.
September 10, 2026
Program ends.
September 25, 2026