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Written By: Poorva Chavan | Updated : January 13, 2015 11:22 AM IST
New Delhi, Jan. 12: To seek fresh collaborative projects with Indian researchers, a French academic institution, The College de France, Paris, has launched a three year collaborative project that will include French researchers delivering lectures across India. The French institute plans to send three or four of its researchers every year to universities and institutions in India. This series begins with a biologist delivering lectures in Delhi, Bangalore and Calcutta this week. (Read: Indian-American doctors create endowment for medical resaerch)
A senior microbiologist at the College and a specialist in disease-causing bacteria that infect the human intestine, Philippe Sansonetti will talk about latest developments in the cutting-edge zone of research. He will speak at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, on January 14.
These talks will focus on discussing prospects of collaborating research with French institutions and aim at providing information about advances in French institutions. The lectures will tap possibilities of research in every field of science including social sciences and economics. The second lecture will be delivered by Francois Bourguignon, the former chief economist of the World Bank, and now chair of the Knowledge against Poverty in the College, in April this year. Followed by Edouard Bard, a leading climate and ocean scientist in November. (Read: Indian Science Congress (ISC) brands Mumbai as 'Science City'.)
The lecture series reflects France's fascination for India, Sansonetti said. It is now 200 years since the College established its first chair for the study of Sanskrit and Indian history, and through these lectures, we're hoping to add new collaboration, as reported by The Telegraph
Considering the long history of Indo-French collaboration in the field of research this lecture series is a another initiative . France has seen a high number of Indian students applying for courses there including research positions double the figure five years ago. But it's important that funding agencies in both countries support exchanges of researchers, Sansonetti said.
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