Two Cambodian students are winners of the 2022 Eiffel program

This year, all the applications submitted by the institution were at a Master's level. Two Cambodian students stood out among all the candidates : Sodalin Tan and Davann Pora. They are graduates of the Law and Economics and Management degree program relocated at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh. In the upcoming academic year, the two winners will enter the first year of the Social law Master’s degree specialized in the International Mobility of Workers at the Institute of Labour Studies (IETL), and the first year of Private law Master’s degree specialized in Contracts, Sports and Cultural Events Law at the Julie-Victoire Daubié Faculty of Law.

« I am keen to develop my understanding of the French system in order to export it, as much as possible, to Cambodia. Thanks to these lessons, I will be able to compare our legal systems in order to make good use of them in my future job».
Sodalin Tan

The admission of these students benefiting from the Eiffel scholarship to our courses is the result of a joint effort between our teams and our foreign partners. It demonstrates our University's commitment to train the talents of tomorrow," explains Marie-Cécile Escande-Varniol as the head of the Master's degree in Social Law and she will welcome one of the winners into her course.

« It is to our delight that this Cambodian student was chosen for obtaining an Eiffel scholarship. Beyond the recognition that this nomination represents for the winner, this success is also the reward for decades of efforts made by Lyon 2 University for the academic cooperation with Cambodia. The Master in Social Law has been welcoming Cambodian students to the IETL for twenty years, at the rate of one or two per year. Most of them now hold important positions in Cambodia, either in ministries or mainly in lawyers' or notaries' offices. Many of them were laureates of the Eiffel scholarships. »

Marie-Cécile
Escande-Varniol

Each year, our university launches a call for applications from international students and then selects the best entries and submits them to Campus France. The organisation is in charge of the program, their committee of experts assess the applications received.