[Indonesia] Visit of Antoine Petit, CEO of CNRS, and Signature of a MoU with the BRIN

by Marie Cluzel | Jul 24, 2024 | news

[Indonesia] Visit of Antoine Petit, CEO of CNRS, and Signature of a MoU with the BRIN

Antoine Petit, CEO of the French CNRS, and Laksana Tri Handoko, Chairman of Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), signing the Memorandum of Understanding aiming at enhancing their scientific cooperation.

26/08/2024. Credits: CNRS Office in ASEAN.

Antoine Petit, CEO of CNRS, visited Singapore and Indonesia in July 2024.

During his visit in Singapore, he attended the CREATE symposium 2024 and CREATE Governing Council meeting. He was also invited to the Istana by Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam to discuss the “future of AI”.

After Singapore, Antoine Petit went to Jakarta the 24th of July, where he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the CNRS and the BRIN. The French Embassy in Indonesia organized several visits for CNRS to meet Indonesian or Asian potential partners. During these visits, Antoine Petit was accompanied by the Scientific cooperation division of the French Embassy and the Representative Office in ASEAN.

Antoine Petit was first invited by the French Ambassador to Indonesia, Timor-Leste and ASEAN, Fabien Penone, to a cocktail reception with the Indonesian scientific community. This reception was the opportunity for Antoine Petit to meet representatives from the BRIN and from several Indonesian universities collaborating with researchers from CNRS. Fabien Penone and Antoine Petit expressed the importance of the French-Indonesian collaboration and of the mobility of researchers between the two countries.

Antoine Petit then went to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology and met with Anindito Aditomo, Head of Agency for Standardization, Curriculum, and Assessment in Education, and Oktavian Haryanto, Special Advisor to the Minister on Innovation.

The CEO of CNRS was invited to Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) by its Chairman, Laksana Tri Handoko. After discussing about common priorities in terms of areas of scientific cooperation, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding between CNRS and BRIN. This MoU is a major milestone marking the institutional collaboration between the two national research agencies.

Both BRIN and CNRS are willing to develop more common projects in a near future and will work to enhance this cooperation and the mobility of researchers from Indonesia and France.

Finally, Antoine Petit visited the ASEAN Secretariat where he met Ekkaphab Phanthavong, the Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Socio-Cultural Community.

Antoine Petit and Ekkaphab Phanthavong, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Socio-Cultural Community.

26/08/2024. Credits: CNRS Office in ASEAN.

[Indonesia] 13th Joint Working Group on Higher Education, Research and Innovation between France – Indonesia

by Marie Cluzel | Jul 5, 2024 | news

[Indonesia] 13th Joint Working Group on Higher Education, Research and Innovation between France – Indonesia

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Opening of the Joint Working Group on Higher Education, Research and Innovation between Indonesia and France.

03/07/2024. Credits: CNRS Office in ASEAN.

The CNRS Representative Office in ASEAN participated to the 13th Joint Working Group on Higher Education, Research and Innovation between France and Indonesia, taking place in Surabaya in July 2nd to 4th. This event gathered universities, research organizations and representatives of ministries from both countries, in order to enhance the cooperation between Indonesian and French research and higher education.

Dominique Baillargeat, director of the CNRS representative office in ASEAN, gave two presentations, one on the CNRS and its activities, and one on the methodology of CNRS partnerships, particularly the joint research laboratories system. France Lagroix also gave a presentation about the CNRS Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy and its activities in Indonesia.

[Singapore] Visit of a CNRS delegation in Singapore

by Marie Cluzel | May 23, 2024 | news

[Singapore] Visit of a CNRS delegation in Singapore

Alain Schuhl, CNRS Deputy CEO for Science, and Christelle Roy, Director of CNRS Nuclei & Particles, visiting the international research laboratory CINTRA. 23/05/2024. Credits: CNRS Office in ASEAN.

Alain Schuhl, CNRS Deputy CEO for Science, Jean-Luc Moullet, CNRS Deputy CEO for Innovation and Christelle Roy, Director of CNRS Nuclei & Particles, visited Singapore in May 2024 in order to attend a meeting of CREATE governing board for CNRS@CREATE.

They also had the opportunity to meet with the Ambassador of France to Singapore.

Jean-Luc Moullet, CNRS Deputy CEO for Innovation, was in Singapore the 20th and 21st May. During his visit, Jean-Luc Moullet went to the international laboratory MajuLab on quantum physics, met with A*STAR and visited several CREATE entities.

Alain Schuhl, CNRS Deputy CEO for Science and Christelle Roy, Director of CNRS Nuclei & Particles and former Director of the European Research and International Cooperation Department were in Singapore from the 21st to the 23rd May. They visited two CNRS international laboratories, CINTRA (nanotechnologies) and MajuLab.

[Thailand] Visit of the CNRS ASEAN Office in Thailand

by Marie Cluzel | Apr 11, 2024 | news

[Thailand] Visit of the CNRS ASEAN Office in Thailand

Chirachem Symposium 2024 at VISTEC in Thailand, with the presence of the CNRS Office in ASEAN and the French Embassy in Thailand. 10/04/2024. Credits: Chirachem.

The CNRS Representative Office in ASEAN visited Thailand the 9th and 10th of April 2024, in order to meet with the international laboratories of CNRS in Bangkok, the French Embassy and to participate in the Chriachem Symposium 2024.

The CNRS Office in ASEAN first met, on the 9th April, the Global Health regional program officer at the French Embassy in Thailand, the CNRS international laboratory HealthDEEP and the French research institute abroad IRASEC, to discuss about the collaboration on the One Health approach.

The symposium 2024 organised by the international project ChiraChem took place the 10th of April in VISTEC, CNRS partner in the project. Dominique Baillargeat, Director of the CNRS Office in ASEAN, made an opening remark at this occasion, reminding the importance of this project with VISTEC for CNRS and of French-Thai scientific collaboration.

[Indonesia] Visit of the CNRS ASEAN Office in Indonesia

by Marie Cluzel | Mar 1, 2024 | news

[Indonesia] Visit of the CNRS ASEAN Office in Indonesia

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Dominique Baillargeat, Director of the CNRS Office in ASEAN, with the representatives of 21 public universities during the Assembly of Academic Senate of Indonesian Legal Entity State Universities. Malang, Indonesia, 29/02/2024. Credits: CNRS Office in ASEAN.

Dominique Baillargeat among the speakers of the Assembly of Academic Senate of Indonesian Legal Entity State Universities. Malang, Indonesia, 01/03/2024. Credits: CNRS Office in ASEAN.

The CNRS Representative Office in ASEAN visited Indonesia from the 28th of February to the 1st of March 2024, in order to meet major research stakeholders.

The CNRS Office in ASEAN first met the Cooperation and cultural action advisor and Director of the Institut Français of Indonesia, the Attaché for science and technology and his Deputy at the Institut français Indonesia, Jakarta.

On this occasion, the French Embassy organized a meeting with CNRS and several representatives of the BRIN (National Research and Innovation Agency) and of several Indonesian universities to discuss the possibilities of future collaborations.

The 1st of March, Dominique Baillargeat, Director of the CNRS Office in ASEAN, was invited to the Assembly of Academic Senate of Indonesian Legal Entity State Universities. He presented CNRS, its international cooperation tools and its activities in Southeast Asia and Indonesia to the 21 public universities participating in the Assembly.