OUR PARTNERS / OUR WELCOMING ASSOCIATIONS


Science Welcome works in collaboration with national, regional and local welcoming associations. These partners may be of help to you when you arrive and during your stay; please find below a list of some of them.

A local organization to welcome the new arrival and particularly his family :
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Union Régionale Ile de France des Accueils des Villes Françaises (AVF).

62, rue Tiquetonne - 75002 PARIS
Phone: +33 (0)1 44 76 00 25 - +33 (0)1 45 26 00 45
www.avf.asso.fr/minisites/Website/site/iledefrance_accueil.php
E-mail: uravf-idf@wanadoo.fr

The aim of this organisation is to welcome all those moving into new towns or regions and thus improve personal relationships. Some of these organisations cover our region.

  • AVF Versailles
    3 rue Saint-Simon - 78000 Versailles
    Phone/Fax: +33 (0)1 30 21 64 01 - avf.versailles@wanadoo.fr
    on duty:
    - on Tuesday: 10am. - 12am.
    - on Thursday: 2:30pm. - 4:30pm.

    Contact in English: Gilda Croze: +33 (0)1 39 55 12 90

    French conversation: Anne-Marie Bourhis: +33 (0)1 39 50 68 28 or Pascale Chambert - Loir: +33 (0)1 30 21 23 02
  • AVF Bourg-la-Reine
    3 allée Françoise Dolto - 92340 Bourg-la-Reine
    Phone: +33 (0)1 43 50 53 13 - avfblr@yahoo.fr
    In English : Thérèse Friberg : +33 (0)1 46 61 89 07
    In German : Alix Morlon : +33 (0)1 46 83 89 15
    In Spanish : Marie Covallier : +33 (0)1 43 50 40 64
    In Portuguese : Virgile Zuzarte : +33 (0)1 47 02 29 65
  • AVF Paris XVe
    32 boulevard de Vaugirad - 75015 Paris
    Phone: +33 (0)6 16 45 19 78
    avfparis15@gmail.com
    www.avf-parisxv.fr
    Chairwoman: Mrs Régine Verdier
    on duty at town hall of 15e:
    - on Thursday: 6pm. - 7:30pm.

International contact: Mrs Josje Liebig Van Huffel : +33 (0)1 40 43 03 94 (contact in Dutch, English, German and Spanish)

  • AVF Antony
    1 place Auguste-Mounié - 92160 Antony
    Phone/fax: +33 (0)1 42 37 09 41
    avf@avfantony.com
    http://avfantony.com
    Chairman: Mr Jean-Claude Pichon
    on duty from Monday to Friday: 9:30am. - 11:30am.

 

Regional Reception Office of Foreign Researchers

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The BRACE (Regional reception of Foreign Researchers) is the network of mobility centres of Ile-de-France (Paris region). It's managered by Cité internationale universitaire de Paris and supported by Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France.
Contact: veronique.gillet-didier@ciup.fr

Mobility centres of BRACE:

  • BACE (Reception Office of Foreign Researchers). It offers a variety of services intended to facilitate researchers’ and their families’ stay in Paris, well before their arrival in France.
    Contact : Véronique Marc
    Bureau d'Accueil des Chercheurs Etrangers (BACE)
    Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP)
    Résidence Honnorat - 17, boulevard Jourdan
    F - 75690 Paris Cedex 14
    Phone: +33 (0)1 70 08 76 34 - Fax: +33 (0)1 45 89 37 48
    e-mail: veronique.marc@ciup.fr
    www.ciup.fr/chercheurs

  • CMPN (Mobility Centre of Northern Paris). It facilitates the stay of guest researchers and their families of Paris 8 University, Paris 13 University and Supmeca.
    Contact : Sandra Richard
    Centre de Mobilité Paris-Nord (CMPN)
    Université de Saint-Denis - Service de la recherche
    2, rue de la Liberté
    F - 93526 Saint-Denis Cedex
    Phone: +33 (0)1 49 40 71 06 - Fax: +33 (0)1 49 40 67 84
    e-mail: cmpn@univ-paris8.fr
    www.univ-paris8.fr

  • BiCi (Guest researchers' international desk). It can provide guest PhD students, post-doc or researchers invited by one of the research Institutions of the Polytechnicum of Marne-la-Vallée and their family with a number of proximity services.
    Contact : Joëlle Delers
    Bureau international des Chercheurs invités (BiCi)
    Polytechnicum de Marne-la-Vallée
    6-8, avenue Blaise Pascal - Champs-sur-Marne
    F- 77455 Marne-la-Vallée
    Phone: +33 (0)1 64 15 32 96 - Fax: +33 (0)1 64 15 31 07
    e-mail: joelle.delers@polytechnicum.org
    www.polytechnicum.org

  • Science Accueil help people coming for professional purposes and for a temporary stay to find living accommodations and to group together all the informations (administration, housing, French courses, leisure, ...) which may be of use to them then and later during their stay, if they need to contact a particular service or person. Service is reserved for people who go and work to higher education and research establishments which are members of our association.
    Contact : Science Accueil
    26 rue Charles de Gaulle
    F-91400 Orsay
    Phone: +33 (0)1 69 33 16 85 - Fax: +33 (0)1 69 07 21 53
    science-accueil@saclay-scientipole.org

 

Two organizations to simplify the arrival of foreign researchers in France :

logo FNAKThe Alfred Kastler Foundation is a service of Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. It aims to improve the conditions of welcome extended to top level foreign researchers and academics coming to work in France, and to maintain contacts with them when they return to their country.

A guide for visitors and their French hosts has been edited by the Foundation. It can be consulted on the Internet .(http://www.fnak.fr).

You are a foreign researcher coming to France: receive your free Guest Researcher Card and benefit from its many advantages (health insurance at a special price, opening a bank account, etc.). The Guest Researcher Card is free and is offered to all foreign scientists, whatever their nationality and field of study, with a Ph.D.-level doctorate who come to France for post-doctoral training, guest or associated professorships, sabbatical leaves, etc... For more informations and to receive your free Guest Researcher Card.

logo FNAKThe Foundation will enable you to maintain your contacts in France when you return home (circulation of regular information sheets, possibility of subscriptions to French journals, mailing list, etc.).

The Kastler Foundation coordinates the French network of mobility centres, member of ERA-MORE, the European network.Science Welcome is member of the French network since the beginning on 2001.

Fondation nationale Alfred Kastler
23, rue du Loess
F - 75037 Strasbourg cedex 02
Phone : +33 (0) 3 88 10 73 29 - Fax : +33 (0) 3 88 10 73 30
E-mail : fondation@fnak.fr

 

France Contact

France Contact can offer scientists about to come to France or already currently in a French laboratory, free services and personalized information. This site allows not only to facilitate scientific mobility towards France but also to allow the researchers who are already back in their countries of origin to participate in the French actions of cooperation or scientific and technological development.

For more information : web site of France Contact.

The other welcome organizations in France:

To contact the other French mobility centres, see the web site of Kastler Foundation.



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Updated: 01-10-2007