10 Reasons to do Research in France

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10 Good reasons to Choose France for your Research!

1. FRANCE, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST RESEARCH INTENSIVE NATIONS

• €50 billion in R&D investment
• Nearly 285,000 researchers, 60% of them in industry
• 74,000 doctoral candidates
• More than 14,500 doctorates granted each year

2. FRANCE, A GLOBAL ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE

• 5th in the OECD for R&D spending
• 2.27% of GDP devoted to research

3. A HIGH-LEVEL OF SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT

• 4th in the world in the impact of publications (H-Index)
• 6th in the world in number of patent applications
• 2nd in Europe and 4th in the world in European patent applications

4. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF FRENCH RESEARCHERS

• 2nd in the world in number of Fields Medals
• 4th in the world in number of Nobel Prizes

5. PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL SCOPE AND SCALE

Arianespace; Large Hadron Collider (CERN); ONERA Wind Tunnels; Renater; European Synchrotron (ESRF); Very Large Telescope (ESO); and many more

6. A RESEARCH SYSTEM CENTRED ON THE UNIVERSITIES

• 265 doctoral departments
• Doctorates can be done in French or English

7. A RESEARCH SYSTEM WITH INTERNATIONAL APPEAL

• 42% of doctoral candidates are from outside France
• 3rd leading host country for foreign doctoral candidates after US and UK
• 7th in the world in number of scientific publications

8. CNRS AND CEA, RECOGNIZED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

• CNRS: World’s 2nd research body in number of high-level scientific publications (Scimago 2019)
• CEA, 2nd in patent applications among all research organizations in Europe

9. A GLOBAL RESEARCH NETWORK

• France’s major research bodies (CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, INSERM, IRD, Institut Pasteur, etc.) maintain more than 250 facilities around the world
• 57% of French scientific papers are international copublications (MESRI 2018)