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THE PARTNER UNIVERSITY FUND AND SANOFI ANNOUNCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SANOFI-PUF CALL FOR PROJECTS FOR PARTNERSHIPS ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN 2012
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Administered by the Partner University Fund (PUF), this initiative includes the selection of one partnership in the field of Public Health and more specifically the access to medicine in emerging countries. This special call for projects follows the regular application forms and guidelines.
MoreTHE PARTNER UNIVERSITY FUND AND THOMSON REUTERS ANNOUNCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A THOMSON REUTERS SPONSORED CALL FOR PROJECTS FOR PARTNERSHIPS ON CYBER-SECURITY IN 2012
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Administered by the Partner University Fund (PUF), this initiative includes the selection of one partnership in the field of Cyber-Security. This special call for projects follows the regular application forms and guidelines.
PUF promotes innovative collaborations of excellence in research and education between French and American institutions of higher education. The modalities of transatlantic collaboration range from joint research and publications to the development of shared curricula and the establishment of joint and dual degrees. They include various forms of mobility for students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and researchers.
French Colloque “French and American Perspectives on Food and Health”
This summit was held the 5th of December and brought together French and American experts and researchers from different academic disciplines as well as professional chefs, and government officials for a transatlantic perspective on this most elemental, though hardly simple, activity every human being must perform: feeding ourselves. It was inspired by an innovative three-year research collaboration, begun in 2009, between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). The program, 21st Century Cuisine, Nutrition and Genetics in France and the U.S., is supported by the French Embassy through the Partner University Fund (PUF), a public-private partnership between the Government of France and individual American donors.
Launch of the 2012 – 2015 PUF Call for project
PUF - Call for project
The Embassy of France to the United States and the FACE Foundation are accepting application proposals for the Partner University Fund (PUF). PUF promotes innovative collaborations of excellence in research and education between French and American institutions of higher education. PUF supports emerging transatlantic partnerships with the potential to continue beyond the initial 3 year grant.
Tuesday September 20th 2011: Conference of the French Association of Plant Biotechnology with the Collaboration of the SAF-Farmers on « PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY : ENVIRONMENT, FOOD, HEALTH. WHAT FUTURE ? »
Agnès Ricroch from AgroParisTech presents the Symposium “Plant biotechnology : Environment, Food, Health, What Future? ” that will be held in Paris, the 20th of September. Professor Shelby Fleischer from PennState University will attend the event, as well as Axel Kahn, President of the Université Paris 5 – René Descartes.
PUF team moves to NYC
The PUF team moves to the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in New York City.
From now on you may contact us at the following address :
Partner University Fund
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
972 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10075
Tel : +1 212 439 1491
Conference on transatlantic cooperation in higher education in Montpellier (04/05/2011)
Presentation / Material of the Conference in Montpelllier held on the April, the 4th :
The key players of the transatlantic cooperation in higher education attended to the conference: Alan Goodman, President and CEO of IIE, representatives of the French Ministry of foreign affairs and Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Cultural and Scientific Counselors at the French Embassy, the President of the PRES Montpellier and Professors of American universities. The conference was opened by the President of the PRES Montpellier, Mrs Dominique Deville de Perrière. Two panels were organized : examples of best practices of the scientific and academic transatlantic cooperation and tools at a national level for higher education and scientific collaboration.
“Five years ago, American Universities were reluctant to cooperate with French Institutions, and the latter could not cooperate. After four years of reforms by the French Government, French Universities have the financial capacity to launch new sets of French-American cooperation. It is also interesting for American Universities to work together with France where the quality of the education and research is world-recognized among all the fields”. Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor at the French Embassy in the US.
PUF contribute to implements fructuous bridges in research in training in the scene of cooperation in higher education between France and the US. “We fund double diplomas, cross training, research for fellows and students” explains Pascal Delisle, Executif Director of PUF and Cultural Attaché.
Programme of the conference : Programme Conference PUF Montpellier (in french)
Material of the Speakers at the Conference :
Best Practices Examples, panel hosted by Patrick Louchouarn, Professor of environmental Science at Texas A&M University and Member of the PUF Jury :
Presentation of the Caltech-Polytechnique partnership Dual Master Degree in aerospace industry and aeronautics, Patrick Huerre, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique – LadHyX,Ecole Polytechnique :
Patrick Carroll, Professor at Université de Monptllier 2 / Inserm : The large maf protein family in the development and the physiopathology of somatosensory circuitry (Université Montpellier 2 / Salk Institute partnership)
Dimitri Pavlidis (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Darmstadt University of Technology Director, International Relations, IEMN)
Transatlantic Dual Degree and Research Programs in Micro and Nanotechnologies
Academic cooperation and the national level : Ministry and Institutions, panel hosted by Christophe Laux, Ecole Centrale, Paris and co-President of the PUF Jury
Minh-Hà Pham-Delegue, Direction Europe de la Recherche et Coopération Internationale (DERCI) et Coopération avec les Etats-Unis
CNRS – Presentation DERCI (in french)
Arnaud Roujou de Boubée, Executive Director of the Fulbright France Comission :
Fulbright France -The French-American commission for the academic and cultural exchanges (in french)
Annick Suzor-Weiner, Scientific Counselor at the French Embassy in the U.S., “Mobility of (young) researchers atthe doctoral level”
Mobility of young researchers at the doctoral level
Univ-Link Award 2011 from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research : Results
During her April 2011 trip to the United States, Valérie Pécresse, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, announced that the Université of Rennes 1 won the “Label d’Excellence” of the French-American academic cooperation “Univ-Link” for the year 2011. Launched by the Minister in June 2010 when she visited Washington D.C., this first award comes with a grant of 40,000€ from the Ministry, to encourage the long term, structured, and deepened academic cooperation.
Valérie Pécresse emphasized on the outstanding quality of this ambitious project regarding the advanced materials for energy and optics, with three dimensions: student mobility, dual-degrees and joint research projects. She pointed out that this Partner University Fund (PUF) partnership distanced itself from the others with an advanced cooperation in PhD under joint supervision, the regular exchange of students and post doc, and the emphasis on co-publications. She also saluted the project of creation of an “Unité Mixte Internationale” aimed to reinforce and structure the joint research.
The University of Rennes 1 has already a PUF grant with the Université of Lille 1 and l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen, with three PhD under joint supervision with University of Arizona (“dual-PhD”). In total, more than 40 students will participate to those programs and enjoy the exchanges between the two institutions.
Learn more on : Communiqué – Ministry of Higher Education and Research
6th-10th June 2011 : 1st French-American Workshop on Electronics Materials at the Interface with Biology
The Centre Microelectronique de Provence (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne), PUF laureate 2010 with the Nanobiotechnology Center of Cornell University with the project “Interdisciplinary Research and Training Collaboration on Biotechnology” will organize a workshop on the 6th June 2011 in Provence. This 4-days event on electronics materials at the interface with biology will be held in the beautiful setting of île de Porquerolles in the Provence-Côte-d’Azur region.
Registration deadline : 23th May, 2011
More info on the website : French-American Workshop on Electronic Materials at the Interface with Biology
Poster : Workshop on Electronic Materials at the Interface with Biology
The Institute of Cognitive Studies (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris), PUF laureate 2009, wins a Labex from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
The Institute of Cognitive studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, PUF laureate 2009 with UCLA with the project “Theoretical / Experimental Linguistic Cognition Advanced Studies” (TELCAS), won a Labex from the French Ministery of Higher Education, as part of the program “Investissement d’Avenir”.
This will enable our grantees to participate to the creation of the Institute of Cognitive Studies (ICS) of Ecole normale superieure. It will be a unique interdisciplinary center conducting research and offering advanced courses in Cognitive Science (the study of higher mental functions such as perception, memory, reasoning, language, emotions, action, social skills, etc). The ICS will be located at the prestigious Ecole normale supérieure (ENS, Paris). It will promote fundamental research, teaching and translational research on human cognition, at the interface between humanities and social sciences, life sciences, and engineering and computer sciences.
More on the Institute of Cognitive Studies : Institute of Cognitive Studies