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Euraxess Occitanie-Est Center

Register on the Euraxess Occitanie-Est platform

If you are a PHD student or researcher or family member of a researcher, register for free on our Euraxess Occitanie-Est platform. This platform will help you with all your administrative formalities before and after your arrival in France. Register here.

At the SAIEC Welcome Desk: the Euraxess Occitanie-Est office

The Euraxess office welcomes, with or without appointment, all PHD students and international researchers, as well as their families, from Montpellier, Nîmes and Perpignan, to help them with all their administrative formalities, free of charge, and to offer personalised assistance to:

  • Prepare their stay: help with formalities for entering, staying and working in France (visas, work permits, residence permits, etc.).
  • Settling in France: help with finding accommodation, health coverage, opening a bank account, etc.
  • Facilitating the administrative procedures: residence permit ( an appointment is requested), social security, retirement, unemployment, family allowances, taxes, etc.
  • Facilitating integration: FLE courses, cultural and educational activities, schooling for children, etc.
The Euraxess France network

The Euraxess France network is a member of the European initiative that brings together over 600 service centers in 42 countries. These centres offer support to PhD students, international researchers and their families from the European Union and non-EU countries, helping them with all administrative formalities. For more information on the Euraxess France click here.