Rencontres Campus France: scientific appeal, springboard of international mobility

Boosting the development of the attractiveness of French research

The Rencontres Campus France (Campus France Meetings) are, like every year, a special space for unique discussions between various players working in the promotion of French higher education and research abroad. This edition attracted 112 representatives from 57 embassies of France and 329 representatives of 108 higher education institutions and research institutions.

Before the many challenges of international mobility and international competition to attract the best foreign researchers, Campus France wants to promote the initiatives, strategies and innovative processes aiming at reaffirming the place of France as world leading scientific partner and present its innovative technologies, and mostly in relation with the challenges of global public goods.

The event mainly relies on:

• Meetings of about 20 minutes between representatives of French higher education institutions and representatives of the cultural services and Campus France Offices of the French embassies,
• Country workshops by the cultural services and Campus France Offices of the French embassies,
• Conference and themed workshops about student mobility and research.

Signing of the Campus France Objectives and Performance Contract

At this event, Christine Neau-Leduc, Chair of the Board of Directors of Campus France, Anne-Marie Descôtes, Secretary General of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Benjamin Leperchey, Deputy Director General for Higher Education, will sign Campus France’s new objectives and performance contract (2023-2025). This new strategic document aims to adapt the agency’s strategy to the changes caused by the health crisis on international mobility and to the various current geopolitical contexts, such as the war in Ukraine and Brexit.

Programme highlights: from doctoral student entrepreneurship to sports research
 

Opening session: speeches by Sylvie Retailleau, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Anne-Marie Descôtes, Secretary General of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Donatienne Hissard, Director General of Campus France.

The speeches will be followed by personal stories from doctoral alumni: Tahina Ralitera (Madagascar), computer science research engineer - CNRS, Anja Todorovic (Serbia), doctoral student in public health and epidemiology - Ecole des hautes études en santé publique, Sebastián Vallejo (Colombia), doctoral student in energy - Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

This year’s programme covers a number of themes and geographical areas of strategic importance to France’s attractiveness, and particularly:

Tuesday 14 November

• Key figures on the mobility of doctoral students and researchers
• Indian higher education: a world giant, tomorrow?
• Is the decline in the attractiveness of doctoral studies a cyclical trend?
• Campus France events and programming in 2024
• Development and trends in aeronautics and aerospace
• What is being done for researchers in exile?
• France, a great nation for research and innovation: how do we get the word out?
• The Francophonie, a lever for attracting scientists to France

Wednesday 15th November 

• Innovation and entrepreneurship: trajectories and opportunities for international doctoral students
• International cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence: risks or opportunities?
• The ocean at the heart of the international/political agenda: how can French research be mobilised?
• Health and the environment: what priority for research?
• Welcoming international researchers: best practice and improvement
• Connecting cooperation around the 3 forest reserves Amazonia, Central Africa and South-East Asia
• Encouraging women to take up scientific careers
• Renewable// decarbonated energies: research as a driving force in the international race 
• Academic excellence in sport: France on the frontline