Campus France opens new offices in Madagascar

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On 14 June 2024, Donatienne Hissard, Director-General of Campus France was invited to the opening of the new offices of Campus France Madagascar at the French Institute of Madagascar (IFM). The event was organised as part of a mission to meet Team France, alumni, and institutional partners.

New premises for the Campus France Office in Madagascar

Although it was implemented since early June in the premises of the Institut Français de Madagascar (IFM, French Institute in Madagascar) in Anakely, the new Campus France Office was inaugurated on Friday 14 June 2024 by Arnaud Guillois, Ambassador of France in Madagascar, Naina Andriantsitohaina, Minister of regional planning and decentralisation, Julien Salava, General Secretary of the Ministry of higher education and scientific research in Madagascar and Donatienne Hissard, Director-General of Campus France.

The new premises of the Campus France Office in Madagascar offer more space and are more modern, to offer high school students, higher education students, parents and partners the best welcome and best services possible.

The project of the building was designed by architect and urbanist Voninkazo Randrianarisolo, an alumna from the National Advanced School of Architecture in Marseille.

Campus France Madagascar teams welcome more than 13,000 students each year. They provide advice, guidance and support to all students applying for studies in France. Throughout the year, they organise free workshops on registration, from the application phase up to the preparation for departure, and at the end of the year, they organise a study fair in France in the presence of representatives of French institutions.

In addition to a central office in Antananarivo, Campus France Madagascar has five offices in other regions (Mahajanga, Toamasina, Fianarantsoa, Antsiranana and Toliara), open from October to March in the Alliances Françaises.

University and scientific mapping Madagascar - France

This inauguration was also the perfect springboard to launch the Madagascar - France inter-university and scientific web platform. This platform was designed to list the cooperation agreements between Malagasy and French institutions. They also include all projects supported by the Service of Cooperation and Cultural Action from the French embassy in Madagascar implying partnerships between Malagasy and French higher education institutions, but also scholarship grant programs and calls for applications to scholarship grants in France for the current year.

Cartographie universitaire et scientifique Madagascar – France

Meetings with Alumni from Madagascar

The day before this inauguration, Donatienne Hissard met members of the France Alumni Madagascar network during a reception at the Résidence de France. Madagascar is one of the first countries to have launched its France Alumni in 2015. France Alumni Madagascar is now a vibrant community including 4,500 members focused on improving bridges between graduates from the French higher education system and companies.

Today, France is the 1st host country for Malagasy students with 5,061 Malagasy students registered in France in 2023. Every year, more than 1,400 students from all fields and all levels join the French higher education system. In the academic year 2023, over 80 students held a mobility scholarship (France Excellence scholarship from the French government, Erasmus-MIC scholarship, regional scholarships, institutions scholarships and private foundations).