Expanding in France and around the world
The Académie des Sciences plays an essential role in promoting and disseminating French research internationally.
As a benchmark institution, it is committed to carrying the voice of French research to elected officials, decision-makers and scientific communities worldwide.
This mission involves publicizing the work of its members in order to feed the reflections and decisions of its international interlocutors. In this way, the Académie des Sciences actively contributes to the advancement of knowledge and global innovation by sharing the results and perspectives of French research.
International networks
In addition, the Académie des sciences actively participates in international scientific life through major networks and joint actions. This participation enriches collaborations and extends France's scientific influence. Thanks to the expertise of its foreign associate members, the Académie also benefits from a valuable contribution of know-how and diversified perspectives. This international network strengthens the Académie's ability to be part of global scientific dynamics, contributing to significant advances in various fields of research.
Through its Délégation aux relations internationales, and its Comité académique des relations internationales scientifiques et techniques (Carist), the Académie des sciences contributes to the internationalization of science through:
- its participation in national-level committees involved in promoting scientific interactions at the global level and in international networks of academies and France's representation within international scientific institutions
- bi- or multilateral, European or international cooperation actions. For example, the Académie des Sciences is involved in several major international prizes and symposia
- voluntary partnership action with developing countries.
SOME KEY FIGURES
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116Foreign associates
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1983First international agreements with Poland and Sweden
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+ 50Bilateral relations worldwide
Science promotion networks
Based on its experience in scientific diplomacy, the Académie des Sciences has created and chairs two national-scale committees involved in promoting scientific interactions, worldwide.
Our actions
Individual travel by scientists has historically been the traditional mode of scientific collaboration between states. The Académie des Sciences, which has long been committed to supporting these exchanges, today carries out its actions within the framework of cooperation agreements or letters of intent signed with foreign national academies, alongside other modes of collaboration such as the joint organization of colloquia, the hosting of speakers or visiting delegations.
Scientific friendships were numerous in Europe and around the world. We might mention those of Newton and Huygens, of Descartes with the same Huygens, of Gay-Lussac with von Humboldt, of the latter with Cuvier and Lamarck.
The Académie perpetuates these fruitful friendships by participating in the awarding of major bilateral international prizes.
In 2014, the Académie des Sciences maintains bilateral relations with more than fifty Academies, through the signing of as many agreements or letters of intent - the first of these, with the Academies of Poland and Sweden, dating back to 1983, the latest, with the National Academy of Sciences of Uruguay, having been concluded in December 2014.
Supporting scientific and technological development in developing countries
For nearly twenty years, the Académie des Sciences has devoted a significant part of its activity to strengthening scientific and technological ties between France and Africa.
