FRENCHAUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COOPERATION

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FRENCH-AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHCOOPERATION
Alain Moulet Science Technology Attaché -
French Embassyscience_at_ambafrance-au.org --
www.ambafrance-au.org/science/

• Part 1
• French Research
• French-Australian cooperation

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FRENCH RESEARCH

• Main figures
• An illustration CNRS
• Trends and priorities
• Innovation support system
• Towards a European research area

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Main Figures

• France 60 Million inhabitants
  (1 Euro 1.67 AU)
• GDP 2001 Eu 1 460 b (A 2 430 b) GDP/hbt
  Eu 24 300 (A 40 000)
• Public Research
• Universities (81 univ.) 96 000 staff (incl.
  59 000 researchers)
• Research Bodies 62 000 staff (incl
  . 27 000 researchers)
• -gt Total 158 000 staff (incl .
  86 000 researchers)
• PhD finished in 1997 11 000
• Main Research bodies (85 global budget)
• CNRS (scientific research) 2002 Eu 2.15 b (A
  3.6 b) 26 000 staff (incl . 11 500 res.)
• CEA (atomic agency) 2003 Eu 2.7 b (A
  4.5 b) 15 000 staff
• CNES (space agency) 2001 Eu 1.12 b (A
  1.8 b) 2 600 staff
• INRA (agronomy) 2002 Eu 0.57 b (A 0.95
  b) 10 000 staff (incl . 4 000 res.)
• INSERM (medical) 2002 Eu 0.45 b (A 0.7
  b) 5 000 staff (incl . 2 200 res.)

(Australian GDP/hbt A 32 000)
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2002 key figures

• A total budget of Eu 2.15 b (A 3.6 b) 87,5
  national public grant - 8,4 contract funds (EU
  25, companies 19) - 4 royalties and other
  resources
• Fundamental and applied research, incl.
  humanities and social sciences
• 1,211 CNRS own laboratories (9) or associated
  with CNRS in the universities/engineering schools
  (80), other research bodies (5), industry (2)
  or other (4) -gt 66,000 total staff number, incl
• - 31,000 permanent researchers
• - 17,000 Phd Students and non permanent post-doc
• 1997-1998 66 of French publications and 70 of
  French citations include at least one CNRS
  laboratory
• Licences and royalties Eu 20 m (A 33 m) in
  1999, Eu 42,5 m (A 71 m) in 2002
• 44 spin-offs created in 1999-2000, 79 in 2001-2002

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26,000 staff 1/1/2003
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International 2000 figures for staff Jan 2004
figures for international labs

• 13 of the researchers paid by CNRS are foreign
  nationals on permanent civil servant position
• 400 temporary positions/year for visiting
  scientist
• Over 5,000 visiting scientist in CNRS-affiliated
  labs
• 1,600 post-docs, scientists and visitors on
  sabbatical
• 300 CNRS scientists work abroad (1-3 years)
• 1 PhD student out of 3 is foreign over 5,000 PhD
  students
• Europe 40 Associated Laboratories (LEA),
  Research Network (GDRE), Twin laboratories,
  Associated Units (UMI)
• Ouside Europe 9 International Associated Units
  (UMI)

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Research spending / GDP (in )
(civil)
Rank for France 4th for Total and Private 2nd
for Public (civil) - Private spending is
increasing Objective 3 in 2010
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Main trends in 2004

• RD public spending EU 8.93 b (A 15 b)
  11,7 since 1998
• Attract young people into research
• 4,860 3-year PhD scholarships per year
• 3700 (-300 / 2003) in public research (Eu 1,256
  /month - A 2,100)
• 1160 (300 / 2003) in private companies (Eu 1,685
  /month - A 2,800)
• New fiscal and social tools to favour RD in
  companies
• more generous RD tax concession national cost
  Eu 0.5 b -gt Eu 0.94 b
• new legal status new set-up innovative firms
  fiscal social exemptions
• new legal status business angel (cost Eu 110 m)
• Increased tax deduction for donations - New
  status for foundations with possible public
  contribution to capital
• Special added National Funds for specific
  priority actions
• Science cooperative actions between public
  laboratories
• Technology public private bodies
  cooperation, incubators, firm creation
• Research priorities major projects,
  foundations, quick investment
• FNS Eu 152 m FRT Eu 197 m FPR Eu 150 m Eu
  499 m(A 832 m)

(inflation 8.3)
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Fields and Priorities 2000 -gt 2003 budget -
2001 National Funds affectation
Others
NF A 230 m (46) Mainly genomics and
post-genomics
Life sciences
Mathematics, physics and
4.1 -gt 3.1
chemistry
11.7 -gt 11.7
200024,8 -gt 200325.7
Environment
NF A 19m (4)
7.3 -gt 9.5
Energy
7.9 -gt 6.4
17 -gt 15.5
Space (1st in EU 40 of EU total public budget)
7.9 -gt 8.8
Information communication
9.3 -gt 9.1
9.3 -gt 10.3
NF A 82 m (16)
Human and social sciences
Transport, aeronautics, materials and energy
NF A 32 m (6)
NF A 17 m (3)
NF A 21 m for young researchers projects
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Innovation support system
2004 Eu 679 m (AU 1.13 b) for those actions
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Actions in favour of innovation
CREATE high-tech firms
Incubator
Created since 1997
Seed funds
Others created 198190
Calls for proposals
Link SMEs, groups, laboratories and technology
transfer centres for cooperative RD
Technological
National
Genopoles
Research
Technological
Networks
Research
EducationresearchTT
incubators on biotech
Centres
F I R M S
Mainly SMEs labs
Mainly large groups labs
Facilitate European and
international partnerships
Resources
R E S E A R C H
European Innovation Relay Centres
and other structures
Increase technical
Carry out
level of personnel
technological RD
Promote
Structures
technological
Financial incentives
Technological research teams
diffusion
for firms to employ young
Technology transfer centres
technicians, engineers,
Technology platform in
Network of
PhD, Post-Doc
technical education
technological
counsellors for
Legal environment
SMEs
Laws on innovation and
Other financial incentives
research, 12 July 1999 and 1st August 2003
subsidies, tax reductions
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Towards a European Research Area

• French EU Presidency (2nd Sem 2000) main
  projects
• Promotion of Innovation patenting system
  creation and development of innovative firms
• Creation of EU Technological Research Networks
• Creation of an EU Academy for Science and
  Technology
• Launch of an EU Agency for ST dissemination
• Establishment of EU Centres of Sciences in the
  world s largest countries
• Mid-Term objective an EU Research Area (full
  mobility for researchers, EU large equipments
  infrastructure)

In Australia creation of FEAST
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FRENCH - AUSTRALIAN COOPERATION

• Illustrative figures
• Main subjects of cooperation
• Joint/Double badged doctoral degrees
• South Pacific cooperation

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Illustrative figures

• CNRS
• 170 researchers came in Australia in 2001, 300
  in 2003
• CSIRO International activities
• 1997-99 33 projects with France, rank 10th
• 1998-00 41 projects, rank 8th (4.6 of total in
  99, 5.4 in 2000)
• 2000-02 57 projects, rank 7th (Ca, Ger and
  Indon 60-63 projects)
• CSIRO has 1 centre in Europe in France
  (Montpellier, Entomology)
• ARC IREX grants/ Link.Int. Awards
• 2000-2001 21 / 174 12 with France
• 2002-2003 (rounds 3 to 6) 24 / 135 18 with
  France
• (rank 2nd USA 33 UK 19 Ger 17 China 15
  Jap 14)
• 5 fellowships offered a year (4 countries
  eligible Fr, UK, Ger StKor)

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Collaborations with EU countries
Incidences of collaboration reported on National
Competitive Grants Program applications
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Illustrative figures

• IAP-IST round 1 to 5 since 2002
• - All countries 75 selected projects
• - France partner in 13 selected projects (17)
  8 bilateral 5 multilateral
• (UK 15 511 - USA 15 96)
• AAS Visits to Europe
• - 2000 and 2001 rounds 35 applications/rd
• towards UK (12 -gt 33), Fr (7 -gt 20), Ge (7
  -gt20), It (1 -gt 3)
• - 2002, 2003 and 2004 rounds 82 applications/rd
• towards Fr (42 -gt 52), UK (12 -gt15), Ge (7 -gt
  8), It (5 -gt7)
• French Embassy Call for Proposals
• - 2001 99 applications
• - 2002 135 applications

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Main subjects of cooperation

• Land and Water management (agriculture, plant
  biotechnology, geology, environment)
• Marine Sciences (100 projects)
• -- Globally for the 2 fields above 50 of Fr-Aus
  cooperation--
• Materials, Chemistry, Physics
• Health, Medicine and Pharmacy
• Information, Communication, Robotics, Maths
• -- Globally for the 3 fields above 40 of Fr-Aus
  cooperation--
• Zoology, Entomology
• Human and Social Sciences

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Joint/Double badged doctoral degrees Co-Tutelles

• Priority of French Embassy for Higher Education
  and Research cooperation
• -gt To enhance research cooperation, benefit
  bright young researchers, and access new funding
  sources
• Support PhD under existing co-tutelle agreements
  in MQ, USyd, JCU, ANU, UWA, GU, Monash, Umelb and
  UA
• Support new agreements on co-tutelles with France
  in other universities UQ, UNSW, UTS
• gt Public events in 2004 to inform and promote

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South Pacific cooperation
Cooperation between Australia and French Pacific
(New Caledonia French Polynesia) is a
priority Symposium of French Research in the
Pacific Nouméa, 24-27 August 2004 -gt to identify
common concerns in the regions and to develop
partnerships with the other concerned
countries with participation of the French
Minister for Research -gt we look forward to a
significant Australian participation
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