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• > French expertise in the field of seawater desalination (29.04.2013)

  

  Accentuated by the perceptible consequences of climate change, shortage of drinking water is a major issue for humanity. To overcome this crucial (...)

• > Atlanta seen through the French National Audiovisual Archives (...) (28.03.2013)

  

  Have you ever wondered how French TV covered some of Atlanta’s key historical moments ? If you understand French, you are about to find out ! From (...)

• > Video games made in France : a sector of excellence (28.03.2013)

  

  The primary cultural industry in France and around the world, video game production produced a turnover of 3 billion euros in France in 2012. By (...)

• > Design: an asset in competitiveness (28.02.2013)

  

  Design is used in all fields and, like companies, it concerns the private individual, who is drawn to the aesthetic as much as to the functional (...)

• > France encourages the Ariane 6 space project (30.01.2013)

  

  And then there were six! A new-generation Ariane launcher is on the drawing board. The rocket – which is designed to launch communications (...)

• > France takes new initiatives in the fight against AIDS (27.09.2012)

  

  Although undeniable progress has been made against HIV, the means to curb the epidemic are still lacking. France is a driving force both in (...)

• > High-speed rail: on track for the future (27.06.2012)

  

  Public land transportation is developing in France and throughout the world, with a growing trend toward high-speed cross-border trains, trams (...)

• > The major French companies, very active internationally (25.04.2012)

  

  Major French companies display a certain optimism and even demonstrate a strong performance internationally. Faced with strong global demand, (...)

• > Towards a better understanding of bioenergy production (28.03.2012)

  

  The HélioBiotec platform has just been opened at the Commission for the Atomic and Alternative Energies (CEA) Center in Cadarache (...)

• > French Expressions of the Democratic Process: 2012 Elections (28.03.2012)

  

  2012 marks an important political year, not only for the United States, but for France as well. This year, both countries are gearing up for (...)

• > France’s business schools: a symbol of European and World excellence (29.02.2012)

  

  The Financial Times annual European business school ranking places France’s business schools once more among the best in Europe and the (...)

• > 2012, French Autism Awareness Year (18.01.2012)

  

  On December 20, 2011, the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon awarded the label of 2012 national awareness cause to the collective of (...)

• > Le Centre Pompidou Mobile: another innovative artistic concept by the (...) (22.12.2011)

  

  After the huge success of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the first major example of cultural decentralization in France which was inaugurated in May (...)

• > Galileo: the first satellites lift off (28.11.2011)

  

  The first two satellites of Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, were launched in French Guiana on October 21, 2011. The (...)

• > Self service electric cars in Paris (28.02.2011)

  

  Following the success of the self-service bicycles, Autolib’, Paris presents a new service offering short-term car rental. The first self-service (...)

• > Nao, the little French robot captivating Americans (31.01.2011)

  

  Last summer he caused a sensation dancing to Maurice Ravel’s Boléro in the French pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. Nao may be only four years (...)

• > The French presidency of the G20 and G8 (16.12.2010)

  

  France took over the presidency of the Group of 20 (or G20) for a year, beginning at the end of the Seoul Summit held on November 11 and 12, (...)

• > The remarkable paleontological research discovery by the University of (...) (29.09.2010)

  

  The geobiologist Abderrazak El Albani and his colleagues of the CNRS Hydrogeology, Clays, Soils and Alterations at the University of Poitiers, (...)

• > France ranks 3rd in Foreign investments (02.08.2010)

  

  The 2010 rankings of France’s attractiveness “shows a positive assessment of France’s ability to attract and retain businesses and foreign talent.” (...)

• > Chopin year in France (29.06.2010)

  

  There is a tomb in the Père Lachaise cemetery that is constantly adorned with flowers. Musicians or music lovers, touched by a waltz or a mazurka, (...)

• > French artisan craftwork: a guarantee of quality (28.05.2010)

  

  With more than 3 million people practicing an artisan craft, the industry is the largest in France, guaranteeing the country’s high-quality (...)

• > Anne Dejeant-Assemat, a distinguished French scientist (26.04.2010)

  

  Anne Dejean-Assémat, a biologist specializing in the mechanisms that cause cancer in humans, has just been awarded the L’Oréal-Unesco prize for (...)

• > "France is the country with the best quality of life in the (...) (26.03.2010)

  

  It’s not French people who say so, but International Living Magazine, an American magazine that publishes a quality of life index each year. (...)

• > France exports its athletes (22.02.2010)

  

  The 2010 Winter Olympic Games ended on March 1st. This symbolic sporting event welcomed nearly a hundred French athletes competing to win (...)

• > An investment in innovation for the economy (29.01.2010)

  

  Facing the current economic crisis and a country’s concern regarding a turnaround, the President of the French Republic, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, (...)

• > France and the Copenhaguen agreement (20.11.2009)

  

  The United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from December 7 to December 18, 2009. France is dedicated to (...)

• > French mathematicians are at the top of their game (29.10.2009)

  

  With a staff of 1,000 researchers and many national and international honors, France possesses, through the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de (...)

• > France looking for an economy of societal well-being (01.10.2009)

  

  While the world is experiencing its worst economic crisis since the aftermath of World War II, some economists are looking for new ways to (...)