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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