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Deadline for applications: 23 December 2021 The international Hubert Curien Program in Australia is called French-Australian Science and Innovation Collaboration - FASIC. The objective of this program is to develop scientific and technological exchanges of excellence between laboratories in both countries, by encouraging new cooperation and the participation of young researchers. Submitted projects must be joint research projects involving at least a French and an Australian

Sustainability and Wellbeing Each year, the Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) Inc. runs a Forum to exhibit and discuss current cooperation and areas of future cooperation upscaling potential. The 2021 AFRAN Forum will be held on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 December 2021, and will be hosted online. The theme for 2021 is “Sustainability and Wellbeing”. Societies are facing increasing pressures linked to the global pandemic,climate change, ecosys

23 November 2021, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Join us to celebrate the winners of the 127th edition of our Berthe Mouchette Competition! The Awards Ceremony will be an on-line event, pre-recorded and released for viewing on 23rd November 2021. Register using the link below to receive the link to the event. Be sure to check your inbox on Tuesday 23rd November 2021 for access. More information and to register

20-23 November 2021 Online and face-to-face event Transnationalism is an increasingly popular phenomenon, reflecting and responding to the heightened interconnectivity between people and the receding economic and social significance of boundaries among nation states. The current global pandemic has brought issues of interconnectivity sharply into question. In this context, this conference will explore life narratives across a broad variety of contexts. By discussing lif

Deadline for submission of applications is set on 16th February 2022 at 5:00pm (CET Paris time). LE STUDIUM VISITING RESEARCHER award is an opportunity for senior scientists on leave from their institution to integrate for a period between 3 and 12 months into a high level laboratory in the Centre-Val de Loire region (France) and the LE STUDIUM international faculty. Experienced international researchers are eligible to submit an application after having negotiated their

Deadline for applications: 22 November 2021 A project is under preparation for sumbission to the European program Marie Skłodowska-Curie and fund more than 50 cotutelle PhDs between France and Australia. Every French and Australian research organisation will be eligible and every engineering science fields (fundamental, applied...) will be considered! How does it work? Selection of collaborative research topics: Pairs of CNRS and collaborating Australian academics will identi

Online, 23-25 November 2021 The IORA Indian Ocean Blue Carbon Hub aims to build knowledge and capacity relevant to protecting and restoring blue carbon ecosystems throughout the Indian Ocean, in a way that enhances livelihoods, reduces risks from coastal hazards, and helps mitigate climate change. This workshop will convene representatives from IORA Member States and Dialogue Partners to consider the EO data needs in the context of a blue economy. The workshop would focus on

Online, 23–25 November 2021 The event is hosted by the team from the Australian Research Council Laureate Project Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP), which was led by Professor Matthew Spriggs from 2015-2020. The conference was postponed from March 2020, marking the conclusion of the CBAP project, but we are delighted to finally bring speakers and audience together online. The conference explores new ideas on the history of archaeology worldwide.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new platform Sacreblue! The Sacreblue! platform is dedicated to bringing together all institutions, organisations and individuals who create cultural and intellectual bridges between France and Australia. The website will offer news, in-depth articles, podcasts and events on French cinema, performance, arts, gastronomy, ideas, science, language, fashion, sport and much more. It is 100% Francophile, 100% in English. Sacreblue! is

Symposium on 6-7 December 2021 at the University of Melbourne The Melbourne CNRS Network (MCN) is a partnership between the University of Melbourne and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. It consists of researchers and joint PhD candidates from the University of Melbourne, the CNRS, and several French university partners. The Faculties of Science, of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and of Engineering and IT have been participating in