On 21 May 2024, the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in Germany organised a first edition of the Franco-German Day of Research and Innovation. This day is an initiative of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs launched in 2023 and supported by Campus France France.

More than a hundred researchers from France and Germany, including our Managing Director Kristin Limbach, came together at the French Embassy in Berlin to learn about the tools of Franco-German scientific cooperation, its limits and prospects, the route towards an ANR/DFG funded research project and recommendations for programmes specific to various scientific disciplines. The day was marked by round table discussions, workshops as well as scientific exchange, where the researchers had three minutes to present their work on stage and afterwards the scientific posters of their colleagues could be discovered.

It was a rich and informative day and we are looking forward to put French-German cooperation into practice!

On 16 May, we had the pleasure of attending the official kick-off meeting of the AsimutE project at the Interreg Strasbourg headquarters.

On site we had a good opportunity to meet with our colleagues and funding partners to discuss the further progress of the AsimutE project and to exchange ideas.

We are looking forward for our next meeting in July.