Campus France participates in the promotion of French Research

Campus France is a public establishment charged with developing and promoting the French system of higher education and professional training. To this end, it provides support for the international presence of French establishments and institutes. The agency is an active participant in extending French research beyond its national borders.

Campus France's mission to promote French research involves four types of actions:

1. Informing foreign students and researchers about French research, how it functions and where it is conducted.

2. Managing research programmes, such as the Hubert Curien partnerships (PHC) and bilateral programmes involving France. Learn more: https://www.campusfrance.org/fr/phc

3. Advising and supporting researchers, research institutes and companies receiving foreign doctoral students

4. Promoting French research abroad, particularly by participating in trade fairs and French doctoral study promotional tours.

In order to raise awareness concerning French research and to encourage foreign students to do their doctoral studies in France, Campus France organises events around the world, including in Mexico and India, to promote French doctoral studies.

Check the list of all the events organised by Campus France and the ones that Campus France is participating in outside of France here.

Every two years, Campus France organises Rencontres de la recherche et de l’innovation (Research and Innovation Meetings). Over three days, this event brings together research and international relations managers from French universities, representatives of the Grandes Écoles and French research institutes, along with managers from Campus France offices around the world.

The Meetings have three main objectives:

1. Developing scientific discussion between France and the countries represented

2. Promoting French research and innovation

3. Encouraging bilateral and multilateral agreements

With numerous workshops and get-togethers, the Meetings are an opportunity for a collective analysis of how to reinforce the attractiveness of France for foreign doctoral students and researchers.

The next Rencontres de la recherché et de l’innovation will be held in 2019. In the meantime, don't hesitate to see what happened in the 2017 and 2015 editions: https://rencontres.campusfrance.org/documents.html

The Campus France forum structures its work in themed commissions. The Doctoral research and Education commission develops proposals with the objective of improving the conditions under which foreign researchers are received and financed in France. They are submitted to the Campus France Administrative Council and to the public authorities.

Read the note on the attractiveness of France that was given to Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in July 2017, and the letter sent to Thierry Mandon, her predecessor, in December 2016.