International Research Experience in FRANCE for Undergraduate Students

The UF/France Research Exchange in Chemistry: Advancing Diversity Through International Engagement is receiving applications for Summer 2026!

We are contacting you because students from your department/school applied to this program in the past, and we hope that you can share this information with other undergraduate students for whom a research experience abroad can make a big impact.  

The International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is a 11-week full research immersion program based in France.

Participants spend their summer in a research lab in one of the French associated sites:

Université P. Sabatier in Toulouse

UNISTRA in Strasbourg

Sorbonne Université in Paris

AgroParisTech in Reims

The program provides:

$6000 for food and incidentals

 Housing for free (provided by hosting site)

$1000 travel allowance

 Up to $1000 are provided to travel to the National Meeting of the ACS in Spring 2027

 Who should apply: 

Students with interest in any Chemistry related area. 

Students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds are encouraged to apply (first in the family college students, community college students, non-traditional students)

Applications submissions accepted through January 15th, 2026.

 For more information and the application form, please go to https://reu.chem.ufl.edu/the-program/

 This program is funded by NSF-Award Number 2244028