The internship proposal should be submitted on the pedagogical server by January 31. Please take note: the internship proposal must be approved by your Study Director following an analysis of the Studies Committee on the distribution of the internships. It is recommended to have a back-up proposal in case your first choice is not approved. The rule is that each internship director can supervise at most one MPRI student.

Students must fill in an internship agreement before beginning the internship completing their studies. The relevant forms are available on request at the MPRI Secretariats within the institutions where the students are enrolled at. The duration of the internship is 4.5 months. It should begin around 15 March and may not extend beyond 31 August. The viva voce examination will take place beginning of September.

Students doing their internship abroad should start taking the necessary steps well in advance, because the office of internships has to request the prior approval of the French state health insurance office (CPAM).

• Students enrolled at the University Paris Diderot must return to the Secretariat a copy of the internship agreement filled in, signed and stamped by the body with which they will be doing the internship. They must enclose a photocopy of their student card as well as a certificate of civil liability insurance providing cover for the whole length of the internship in case of accident WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE INTERNSHIP WITH THE COMPANY/PUBLIC BODY. The students and the body with which they will be doing the internship will each be given a copy of the internship agreement signed by both the person in charge of the MPRI course and the head of the university.

We provide a server where researchers from all over the world may submit an internship proposal for M2-MPRI students. Please notice that these proposals are NOT MODERATED. For internships that take place in an industrial environment, make sure to discuss them ahead of time with your study director to ensure that they correspond to what is expected from an internship.

• Internship offers for the academic year 2024/2025
• Internship submission form

• Internships offer for the academic year 2023/2024
• Internships offer for the academic year 2022/2023
• Internships offer for the academic year 2021/2022
• Internships offer for the academic year 2020/2021
• Internships offer for the academic year 2019/2020
• Internships offer for the academic year 2018/2019
• Internships offer for the academic year 2017/2018
• Internships offer for the academic year 2016/2017
• Internships offer for the academic year 2015/2016
• Internships offer for the academic year 2014/2015

A report, in PDF format, must be uploaded on the MPRI pedagogical server by August 20.

Reports or their modifications that are submitted after the deadline may or may not be considered by the committee. If they are considered, there will be a penalty on the final mark.

The report must start with a 2-page summary with the following outline: TEX file ( in PDF).

The report must be at most 20 pages, including the 2 pages of summary, in a standard format : LaTeX, article, 11pt, a4.

Optionally, these 20 pages can be augmented with appendices, detailing for instance some of the proofs. Appendices have no page limit. However, the committee may or may not read the appendices. The report must therefore be understandable without them. Appendices should be clearly marked as such.

Reports may be written in French or in English. Writing quality is judged independently of the language: if you choose to write in English, it is your responsibility to ensure that the report is clear and well-written.

Each student report is assigned a reviewer, who is a member of the MPRI studies committee. This assignment is displayed in the planning (link below). The reviewer may ask for external expertise, and must fill the formulaire d'évaluation "rapporteur".

Supervisor(s) must also fill an supervisor evaluation form, and send it by email (in text format) to the reviewer. The deadline is the same as for the report upload: August 20. Students should remind their supervisor(s) of this task.

Here is a randomly selected example of a report that has received a good evaluation.

Defenses are scheduled at the beginning of September. See: PLANNING 2023/2024.

Each presentation will last 30 minutes (20 minutes of presentation + 10 minutes of questions). Please send your slides in PDF before 6PM the day before the defense, to: mpricontact--dir@sympa.lmf.cnrs.fr

(Although this practice is discouraged, you may also bring your own laptop with an HDMI connection, with the caveat that it may or may not work properly with the video projector. A backup solution with PDF slides is advisable.)

Students should inform their internship supervisor of the date of their defense. Supervisors are welcome to attend. If they attend, the jury will discuss with them at the end of the ongoing series of defenses (which typically lasts between 90 and 120 minutes). They can also attend online. In that case, it is up to the student to set up the video call with them; and you should leave it open afterwards for discussions with the jury.

Defenses are public: other students are encouraged to attend. (Except in the rare case of a defense marked [NOT PUBLIC] in the planning.) For each session, the jury consists of a subset of the MPRI studies committee, and the supervisors (if present).

Students requiring some degree of confidentiality and/or the signature of a non-disclosure agreement should contact the Master's Director at least 2 months before the defense.