» Cooperation and exchanges

• Chateaubriand fellowship

  The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States.

• Fulbright program

  As part of the Fulbright program, the Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange has launched three regional research grant programs with Aquitaine, Nord-Pas de Calais and Alsace. It also signed a partnership with the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan for masters and PhD-level study and research grants.

• Other grants

  Pasteur Fellowship Program, Lavoisier grant and Eiffel excellence scholarship programme

• University endowments

  France - Berkeley, France - Stanford, France - MIT and France - Chicago cooperation programs

• Partner University Fund (PUF)

  PUF is a program of FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), the American nonprofit foundation and partner of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.

• FR-USA Doctoral Network

  The Doctoral Network, currently under negotiation, will promote cooperation in research between participating French and American institutions that will share supervision of doctoral students. Cooperative work will start in the domains of energy and development, but the projects will grow to include other specialties of shared interest such as applied mathematics, modeling, and biotechnologies. The work carried out will be based on comparable research projects conducted at different universities.

• Young Entrepreneurs Initiative

  The Young Entrepreneurs Initiative (YEI) is a program that promotes the creation of innovative businesses in France by young researchers/businesspeople living in the United States, without age or nationality restrictions.

• International Voluntary Service

  The goals of the Information Center on International Volunteering (CIVI) are to promote international volunteering (VI) to young professionals, help candidates apply, bring together those seeking and those offering positions, and develop partnerships with schools and universities