Studies

You must complete all of the following conditions :

• You are enrolled in initial training in France or in another country of the European Union
• The institution is a public or private educational institution eligible to receive fellows
• You're in graduate school full-time.

Age

You must have under 28 during your 1^re scholarship application (as of 1^er September of the year of study).

From the age of 28, you must continue your studies to continue receiving the scholarship.

This age limit may be postponed if you are one of the following:

Diplomas

You must have a French baccalaureate (or a diploma/diploma admitted in equivalency or dispensation for enrollment in 1^re graduate year).

Nationality

Additional conditions are required if you are not French.

Resources

To qualify for the scholarship, your income must not exceed a certain limit.

For the 2024-2025 academic year, the revenues withheld are those collected in 2022 (2023 tax advisory) by the family or legal guardian.

The income taken into account is shown in the line total gross income the notice of taxation or non-taxation.

You can calculate your grant entitlement with a simulator:

Student: calculate your grant entitlement based on social criteria

If you are married, past, have a child for tax purposes, your only resources (or those of the tax household to which you are attached) may be withheld.

In exceptional cases, 2023 (or even 2024) revenues can be taken into account.

Special provisions are provided for in the following situations:

• Lone parent
• Separation, divorce, remarriage or common-law partnership of the parents
• Parent living or working abroad
• Foreigner students.

Filing of the application

You need to build your Student Social Record (SSR) online to apply for a scholarship.

For the 2024-2025 academic year, you had to enter your application between 1^er march and may 31, 2024.

My student services

In case of significant and lasting change your situation (marriage, divorce) or that of your family (divorce, death, unemployment, retirement, illness), your file can be studied even outside these deadlines. Then contact the DSE of the Academy's Crous where you are (or will be) attending school.

Request Validation

At the end of entering your FSD, you will receive an email confirming the submission of your application.

If your file is incomplete, an email is also sent. You will then need to deposit the missing documents by logging into your account.

My student services

Decision on conditional notification of award of the grant

You will receive, by email, a conditional notification of award or rejection of the grant, at the latest in July.

The final award or rejection decision will be notified only after you enroll in the university.

To do so, send the evidence proving your enrollment in a higher education institution to the Crous.

Final decision on the award of the fellowship

The final award decision must contain the reasons if it is less favorable than the conditional decision.

Reasons must also be given for any refusal to award grants, withdrawals or reductions in grants.

These decisions must indicate the means and time limits of appeal (administrative and litigation).

Appeals

To challenge the decision of the Crous, send a ex gratia appeal to the rector of the academy.

If you have not been satisfied, address a hierarchical appeal to the Minister for Higher Education, obligatory through the rector of the academy.

You can also bring a legal action before the administrative court within the jurisdiction of your academy within 2 months of the initial notification of refusal.