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Deadline for applications : 28 November 2022 A call is launched by the Pacific Permanent Secretariat to support projects in 2023 from the “Pacific Fund for Economic, Social and Cultural Cooperation”, known as the Pacific Funds (PF). The selected projects must contribute to the regional integration of French communities (New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna islands) and develop regional cooperation with the Oceanian States. These are not in principle

November 28th to December 4th - Nouméa, New Caledonia The Oceania Geospatial Symposium was officially launched on September 9th during a regional press conference, at CPS headquarters in Noumea. Registrations are now open! You can validate your participation by filling the online registration form. The OGS 2022 promises to be a memorable moment, a community event like we have never experienced before, with the possibility to meet geospatial actors from all over the world d

This PhD position is a collaboration between Queensland University of Technology (QUT, Australia), University of Saskatchewan (USASK, Canada) and University of Paris Est (UPEC, France). This project seeks to better understand how cortical bone is affected by osteoporosis and drug treatments. Longitudinal experimental data in a rabbit model of osteoporosis will be collected by Prof David Cooper (USASK) at the Canadian Synchrotron. The successful PhD candidate will use machine

At the occasion of the visit of a French Space Industry delegation in Australia, between the 24th and the 28th of October, AFRAN is co-organising two networking cocktails to celebrate Australian-French cooperation in space science. Join us to meet Australian and French space industries and experts! Adélaïde 24th of October, from 5pm to 6pm at the Playford Hote Held one day before the Australian Space Forum, this FACCI-AFRAN networking event will gather the space community inv

AFRAN Forum - 7 & 8 December 2022 at Swinburne University of Technology 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 2022 AFRAN Forum will be held on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 December 2022 at Swinburne University of Technology. The theme for 2022 is “Innovative Planet”. As every year, this Forum aims at broadening the di

29th of September, 6 - 8pm Function Room, Level 5, Building F23 Administration Building, The University of Sydney To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Molière, the Sorbonne University alumni club Australia invites you to meet in Sydney for an exceptional conference live from Paris by Georges Forestier, professor emeritus at Sorbonne University. Jealous and unhappy husband, clumsy versifier, actor gifted for comic plays only... who really was Molière? Georges Forestier inv

Cofunded with EUR 15.7 million by the European Union, RMIT and other partners, and coordinated by the RMIT Europe Centre (in Barcelona), the AUFRANDE project will support 64 PhD students over five years to train them in research relevant to industry. The winners of this programme will conduct their research on subjects as varied as photonics, nanotechnology, acoustics or energy. They will be employed at a French research institution, with up to a year’s secondment to a

13-16 September 2022 Funded by the FASIC program of the Embassy of France in Australia (the 2023 call is now open!), a French-Australian team of astronomers is gathering at the Côte d'Azure Observatory (Nice, France) to prepare for the installation of a Cryoscope prototype and a cutting-edge infrared telescopes at Concordia. They will discuss how to combine scientific goals for Exoplanets and Extragalactic Astronomy. The meeting will consist of short presentations with discu

Deadline : 1 November 2022 Objective The Embassy of France in Australia and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, are proud to launch this research funding program intended to foster and reinforce social science collaboration between Australia and France through: Research activities on a topic of interest to both Australia and France, provided to eligible French and Australian researchers, especially early and mid-career researchers. Research activities relevant