Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- Part II Research Partnerships
- Part III Broader Perspectives
- Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- 1 David Willetts, MP
- 2 Valérie Pécresse
- 3 Rick Trainor
- 4 Florentine Petit
- 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities
- 6 Monique Canto-Sperber
- 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?
- 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View
- 9 Hélène Duchêne
- 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy
- 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System
- Index
9 - Hélène Duchêne
from Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by His Excellency Bernard Emié
- Foreword by Sir Peter Westmacott
- Preface
- Part I Teaching and Training Partnerships
- Part II Research Partnerships
- Part III Broader Perspectives
- Appendices: Addresses and Speeches at the Franco-British Academic Partnerships Seminar, French Institute, London, 5 February 2010
- 1 David Willetts, MP
- 2 Valérie Pécresse
- 3 Rick Trainor
- 4 Florentine Petit
- 5 Brigitte Porée: The French Grandes Écoles and British Universities
- 6 Monique Canto-Sperber
- 7 Sir Howard Davies: Franco-British University Collaboration – Can We Realise Churchill's 1940 Vision?
- 8 Adam Steinhouse: Academic–Government Partnerships – A Pragmatic View
- 9 Hélène Duchêne
- 10 Support for Higher Education from the French Embassy
- 11 Strengths and Opportunities in the British University System
- Index
Summary
Today's meeting has shown how high expectations are on both sides of the Channel, as well as the need to broaden and better publicise our partnerships in higher education and research.
At the Evian Franco-British Summit on 6 July 2010, our heads of state and government were keen to reiterate their commitment to a ‘single market for knowledge thoroughly dedicated to the support and promotion of innovation [in Europe]. To this end, France and the United Kingdom [have called for] the full implementation of the European Research Area.’
Our action is indeed more than ever part of the European framework, for which bilateral cooperation is a prerequisite. The bilateral programmes which we develop, in both teaching and research, are seen by the French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs as excellent vectors of European integration, as they prepare, and even train, the actors involved in this cooperation to use European logical concepts and instruments.
I would like to focus on the new possibilities highlighted by the many examples presented today and, after recalling what our common goal is, also on what is happening elsewhere, in Europe and in the world.
In Higher Education
Our Common Goal: To Increase Student and Teacher Mobility in Europe
(a) Twenty Per Cent Mobility in 2020
The European Council of Ministers for Education in May 2009 accepted the new student goals the European Ministers for Higher Education had proposed in Louvain-la-Neuve in April on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Bologna Process.
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- Franco-British Academic PartnershipsThe Next Chapter, pp. 224 - 227Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011