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CampusFrance
National agency for promotingFrench higher
education abroad
July 2008
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CampusFrance
National agency for promotingFrench higher
education abroad

• In 1998 the French government founded an
  organization called the
• EduFrance Agency to promote French higher
  education abroad.
• In 2007, EduFrance became CampusFrance.
• CampusFrance is placed under the supervision of
  the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and
  the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
• CampusFrance is dedicated to promoting
  international mobility for students, academics
  and researchers.

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CampusFrance
Mission objectives

• Under the supervision of ministerial authorities
  and in conjunction with
• higher education institutions and their official
  conferences,
• CampusFrance aims to
• Promote French higher education programmes
  throughout the world.
• Offer international students a path to success
  via higher education
• in France.
• Assist international students beginning with
  their first enquiries made in their home
  countries to their actual stay in France and
  ending with the trip home to their countries of
  origin.
• In association with other stakeholders,
  CampusFrance is creating a Quality Charter for
  all international students.

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CampusFrance
Partners - members
220 member organisations of CampusFrance (July
2008)

• In order to fulfil its mission, CampusFrance
  works in association
• with all higher education institutions, and more
  particularly with
• its member institutions.
• In 2008, CampusFrance has 220 member
  institutions, including
• Most universities and PRES (research and academic
  clusters),
• 15 Grandes Ecoles and close to 50 engineering
  schools,
• 40 business schools,
• Specialized schools, including 20 art schools and
  French language schools.

76 universities et PRES
13 Grandes Ecoles
53 engineering schools
40 business schools
38 specialised schools (languagess, art,
tourism)
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CampusFrance
Partners - CampusFrance offices

• CampusFrance has established more than 100
  offices in 75 countries.
• CampusFrance offices aim primarily at providing
  assistance to international students interested
  in study programmes in France, from the initial
  information seeking to university pre-enrolment.
• In connection with CampusFrance Paris, which
  organizes major promotional events such as
  education fairs in host countries, CampusFrance
  offices also promote French higher education at
  local universities.
• CampusFrance offices are run by personnel trained
  by CampusFrance in close association with the
  supervising ministries and the official
  conferences.
• An online application system has been set up in
  close to 30 countries which can also handle visa
  request procedures.

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The role of CampusFrance
CAMPUSFRANCE OFFICES ABROAD
Information
Counselling
Promotion
Pre-enrolment
CAMPUSFRANCE PARIS
CAMPUSFRANCE OFFICES IN FRANCE
Information
Accommodation
Advice and support
Academic mentoring
Alumni programmes
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CampusFrance Paris
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CampusFrance
Services - promotional events throughout the world

• The CampusFrance programme of events abroad
  (education fairs, forums,
• thematic visits, university tours), which draw on
  average 150,000 visitors
• per year, is conceived in close consultation with
  the supervising authorities
• and the higher education institutions along with
  their official conferences.
• CampusFrance organizes education fairs in
  conjunction with major international events
  (cultural exchange programmes, universal
  exhibitions, commemorations).
• CampusFrance has experimented a number of new
  concepts, such as thematic university tours,
  specialized networking sessions, workshops on
  academic innovation and the promotion of doctoral
  programmes.

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CampusFrance
Services - promotion of doctoral training
programmes

• CampusFrance, in collaboration with the Ministry
  of Higher Education and
• Research, has developed a unique information
  resource for international
• doctoral students.
• The www.campusfrance.org website provides an
  online catalogue for doctoral programmes
  searchable through 20,000 keywords or 80 thematic
  disciplines. The catalogue, which is available in
  English, features a presentation of doctoral
  programmes as well as details on research units.

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Services - activities with the European Union

• Over the past years, CampusFrance, in
  collaboration with partner
• institutions, has developed activities in the
  field of European exchanges
• CampusFrance is the leader of a consortium
  comprised of the DAAD (Germany), Nuffic (the
  Netherlands) and the British Council, whose goal
  is to implement a series of symposia on higher
  education cooperation and organize European
  education fairs in Asia up to 2008.
• CampusFrance has carried out numerous studies and
  analyses at the request of ACA (Academic
  Cooperation Association, a Brussels-based
  association of organizations promoting academic
  mobility).
• CampusFrance is currently participating in
  projects within the framework of the Erasmus
  Mundus action IV programme to train the
  representatives of agencies promoting higher
  education in the Balkans and Eastern European
  countries.

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CampusFrance
Resources - the CampusFrance websitewww.campusfra
nce.org

• Designed especially for international students,
  the CampusFrance
• website can be consulted in over twenty
  languages.
• It allows easy access to all the information
  needed for preparing ones studies in France,
  from choosing ones study programme via the
  online catalogue, to arriving in France.
• In order to better respond to local demand, 53
  country-specific websites have been developed on
  the basis of a model defined by CampusFrance.
• In 2007, more than a million visitors consulted
  ten million web pages.

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CampusFrance
Resources - the online catalogue

• Created in 2006 and available in four languages,
  the CampusFrance
• online catalogue is a search engine giving access
  to over 33,000 French
• higher education study programmes.
• In 2008, doctoral studies have been included in
  the catalogue.

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CampusFrance
Resources - CampusFrance guides

• CampusFrance regularly publishes information
  guides designed for
• International students
• The Choose France guide
• The Choose France guide, published in several
  languages (French, English, Spanish, Portuguese,
  Chinese) is regularly updated and provides
  international students with information
  pertaining to the French higher education system
  and study opportunities while simultaneously
  promoting Frances cultural assets and quality of
  life.
• The catalogue of programmes taught in English
  
• The fifth edition, which was updated
  in 2008, contains information relating to 550
  study programmes taught in English at French
  higher education institutions and provides
  details on these courses which aim to attract
  English-speaking students to France.

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CampusFrance
Resources - institutional publications

• CampusFrance produces regular publications aimed
  at its members,
• higher education institutions, as well as many
  other institutional bodies.
• Courrier CampusFranceCourrier CampusFrance is a
  bi-monthly newsletter providing information on
  CampusFrances activities in France and abroad.
• Les Notes de CampusFranceThe CampusFrance Notes
  provide analyses, evaluations, comparisons and
  previews of different information and topics
  pertaining to student mobility.

CampusFranceNational agency for promoting French
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