Mission pour la Science et la Technologie de l'Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis

The 2nd ICPerMed Conference 'Personalised Medicine - From Vision to Practice'

FranÃ§ois D — 2020-04-10T18:04:33Z

Supported by the European Commission, the conference will bring together world's leading researchers, ELSI experts, health economists, payers, patients and industry representatives, regulatory authorities and HTA experts and ICPerMed members including ministries representatives, research funding and policy organisations.
Within the last years, ICPerMed gathered and analysed needs from relevant stakeholders, defining challenges and actionable levers. In this context, ICPerMed developed a Vision Paper focusing on five challenges or perspectives in personalised medicine:

• Citizen engagement,
• Involvement of health providers,
• Implementation within healthcare systems,
• Health-related information,
• Economic value of implementation.

In the Vision Paper, ICPerMed provides keys on how to cross personalised medicine barriers through essential and transversal pillars that will allow improved therapy, diagnostic and preventive approaches, as well as new healthcare concepts for the benefit of citizens and patients.

During the conference, ICPerMed will be committed to demonstrate the importance and the need to address personalised medicine challenges through the prism of these critical pillars focusing on data & technology, intersectoral synergies and education & literacy necessary to initiate the translation into healthcare systems. To this end, the conference will comprise keynote lectures focusing on the implementation of personalised medicine approaches into healthcare systems for the benefit of patients, citizens and the society as a whole. In addition, in a specific dedicated session, ICPerMed will feature and honour best practices in personalised medicine research through the ICPerMed Recognition 2020, that aims to recognise, encourage, promote and disseminate outstanding examples.

Further information about the conference, the venue and the Scientific Committee Panel are available here:
https://www.icpermed.eu/en/ICPerMed-Conference-2020.php
Please register via the further link:
https://secure.pt-dlr.de/pt-conference/conference/ICPerMed_Okt_20
For further information about the conference, please contact ICPerMed@agencerecherche.fr

About ICPerMed

ICPerMed provides a platform to initiate and support communication and exchange on personalised medicine research, funding and implementation. ICPerMed assembles over 40 European and international partners representing ministries, funding agencies and the European Commission. With the support of the ICPerMed Secretariat, the consortium works on coordinating and supporting research to develop approaches for personalised medicine. Thereby, the central aim of ICPerMed is to align and encourage joint efforts in personalised medicine research and implementation on a European and international level. The ICPerMed Secretariat is coordinated by partners from France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

EEID 2020 - Montpellier 14-17 June 2020

FranÃ§ois D — 2020-03-09T14:12:51Z

18th ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES MEETING

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Café des Sciences @Los Angeles Mars 4, 2020 // Stéphanie Brillant : Healthy Brains Happy Children

MaÃ« lys Renaud — 2020-02-11T21:17:21Z

- When : Wednesday, Mars 4, 2020, from 7pm
- Where : Alliance française de Los Angeles, 10390 Santa Monica Blvd - suite 120, Los Angeles CA 90025
- Registration : https://apm.activecommunities.com/alliancefrancaisela/Activity_Search/cafe-des-sciences-healthy-brains-happy-children/4425
- Presentation in English, Q&A FR&EN
Followed by a wine and cheese reception
Book available on site ($25)

About Stéphanie Brillant
Stephanie Brillant's dharma is to provide inspiration to help people master their lives and unlock their full potential. She is a French journalist, a filmmaker, an author, a former Senior Reporter and TV host. Her filed of expertise includes neuroscience, well-being, social sciences, psychology and philosophy.
Her last feature, BRAINIOUS a 90-minutes documentary that explains how experiences shapes the child's brain, was warmly welcomed in France, Belgium, Switzerland and will soon be theatrically released in Canada, Germnay and Austria.
Her book "Guide of the brain for enlightened parents" was released in France in September 2019.
Stephanie is also a mother of two and raises her children in Los Angeles, California.

Destination Europe - 13 February 2020 - Seattle

FranÃ§ois D — 2020-02-05T22:16:25Z

Destination Europe is a free event about career & funding opportunities in Europe, open to researchers from anywhere in the world & at all stages of their careers.

Destination Europe showcases Europe's vibrant and exciting research and innovation ecosy and the opportunities available to researchers from anywhere in the world. A joint initiativ European Union and its Member States, Destination Europe 2020 will be hosted by the Un of Washington in Seattle and is open to all who are interested in exploring what Europe ha offer to them in all fields of research.

Attendees at Destination Europe will find :
• Experts from European research organizations, funding agencies and European Commis services
presenting programs, initiatives, and opportunities to develop their research ca in Europe
• Researchers who have had the experience of moving to Europe temporarily or permanen sharing
their experience
• Information about the practicalities of moving to Europe (scientific visa, mobility centers,
• An exhibition space with stands providing additional information

SAVE THE DATE : 13 Feb 2020 at @UW in Seattle.

@EUintheUS ; @JEPaquetEU ; @EUScienceInnov ; @EU_H2020 ; @ERC_Research ; @MSCActions ; @UW ; @aaas ; @eustudies ; @euraxess_na

Save your spot, registration is required : https://lnkd.in/gdy-HVq*]

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FRANCE-UNITED STATES SPACE COOPERATION - CNES NEW YEAR WISHES TO THE U.S. SPACE COMMUNITY

Amaury Carbonnaux — 2020-02-05T20:17:46Z

Friday 17 January, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was in Washington at the invitation of His Excellency Philippe Etienne, France's Ambassador to the United States, to extend CNES's New Year wishes to the U.S. space community. He took advantage of his visit to meet Mike Gold, Associate Administrator for NASA's Office of International and Interagency Relations, and Scott Pace, Executive Secretary of the National Space Council.

At the CNES New Year wishes ceremony, Jean-Yves Le Gall underlined the historic funding secured for ESA programmes for 2020-2024 and the 14% increase in CNES's budget this year, which will enable it to consolidate its efforts in the four key domains where it is a long-time partner of the United States — in exploration, science, Earth observation and technology demonstrators — and to look forward to new partnerships on the back of its Science Survey Seminar in October 2019.

He then turned his attention to Mars exploration, with the stellar results of the InSight mission and its SEIS seismometer and the launch on 16 July this year of the Mars 2020 rover carrying the French SuperCam instrument. Looking further ahead, the future of Mars exploration is assured with the Mars Sample Return mission, in which the participation of the United States, Europe and France was confirmed in this year's budgets.

Jean-Yves Le Gall also highlighted the major programmes being pursued by NASA in which Europe and France are prime partners of the United States, with funding to extend operations on the International Space Station through to 2024 and the Artemis lunar exploration programme, through the Lunar Gateway and the delivery of two additional service modules for the Orion capsule. In Universe sciences, the United States is closely involved in several ESA missions, in particular LISA, Athena, ARIEL and LiteBIRD, for which NASA plans to provide CNES with key contributions.

After his meetings, Jean-Yves Le Gall commented: “The French Embassy's choice of the historic partnership between CNES and NASA to mark the cooperation between France and the United States as the illustration for its Season's Greetings card puts space at the heart of our two nations' diplomatic ties. The historic levels of funding approved by the European and U.S. administrations and put in place by our two nations for 2020 encourage us to pursue this historic cooperation: the show will go on!”

NASA's JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) and CNES (The French National Centre for Space Studies) continue their long collaboration in space exploration

FranÃ§ois D — 2020-01-28T15:15:42Z

The scientific team of the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles composed of Pascal Loubière, Science and Technology Attaché, and Maëlys Renaud, Deputy Attaché, as well as Nicolas Maubert, Space Advisor to the French Ambassador and Representative of the National Center for Space Studies (CNES) in the United States, had the opportunity to meet on January 15, 2020 with Leon Alkalaï, Manager of the Office of Strategic Planning at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena (Los Angeles County).

This meeting highlighted the close cooperation between CNES and JPL, embodying the historical relationship that has existed between France and the United States in the space field for more than 50 years. Emblematic programs have been successfully conducted, and others are underway, in the fields of Mars exploration like Curiosity, Insight, Mars2020, and Earth Sciences, with oceanography missions including Topex-Poseidon, Jason-A,2,3 and SWOT.

This visit was also an opportunity to meet about twenty French scientists among the forty or so working in the JPL teams, to discuss the long-term and strategic projection of the laboratory (composed of 6000 people) and to discover its exceptional facilities:

the Space Flight Operations Facility including the DarkRoom and the control rooms of the Deep Space Network dedicated to the monitoring of more than 20 probes of the solar system;
the Spacecraft Assembly Facility Clean Room, where the Mars2020 Rover, to be launched on July 17, 2020 from Cape Canaveral, was still located, and where CNES is supplying the SuperCam instrument. This instrument will examine the rocks and soils of Mars with a camera, a laser and spectrometers in order to search for organic compounds that could be related to a past life on Mars ;
the clean room where the future SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Topography Ocean), jointly developed by CNES and NASA and the company Thales Alenia Space (launch planned for late 2021), is assembled. The objectives of this mission are to carry out the first global study of the Earth's surface waters, to observe the smallest details of the topography of the ocean surface and to measure the evolution of the Earth's surface water masses over time.

Ongoing developments at JPL, notably in collaboration with France, hold great promise for enriching our knowledge of space and Earth.

Cette rencontre a permis de mettre en lumière l'étroite coopération entre le CNES et le JPL, incarnant ainsi la relation historique existant entre la France et les États-unis dans le domaine spatial depuis plus de 50 ans. Des programmes emblématiques ont été menés avec succès, et d'autres sont en cours, dans les domaines de l'exploration de Mars, notamment Curiosity, Insight, Mars2020, et des Sciences de la Terre, avec des missions d'océanographie dont Topex-Poseidon, Jason-A,2,3 et SWOT.

Plus d'informations au sujet des programmes en cours :
Mars 2020 Mission - https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
Surface Water and Topography Ocean (SWOT) - https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/

French American Innovation Day 2020 - Houston / College Station

SST_Houston — 2020-01-09T20:57:45Z

French-American Innovation Days, organized since 2001 by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States, are events that bring together prominent French and American experts to discuss innovation topics in order to foster transatlantic connections in research and innovation.

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SMART MANUFACTURING AND AI FOR INDUSTRY 4.0
SMART MANUFACTURING AND AI FOR INDUSTRY 4.0

The Office for Science & Technology of the Consulate General of France Houston organizes, in collaboration with the Texas A&M university and the french Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, the third edition of the French American Innovation Day in College Station next February 13th, 2020. The event will be dedicated to smart manufacturing and AI for Industry 4.0 and will address these topics :

Smart sensors
Advanced AI and data science
Additive and advanced manufacturing
Digital twins and AR/VR
Cybersecurity and advanced computing paradigms
Marketing strategies and Management for Industries 4.0

The FAID program will be structured around conferences with scientific experts, panel sessions, short sessions of startup presentations (French and American as well) and networking times around posters.

More information is available on the dedicated website at the following address.

The call for speakers is ongoing ! Click here.

You can already save the date and register here.

France-Stanford Center AY 2020-21 Funding Opportunities

FranÃ§ois D — 2019-12-05T20:39:31Z

Want to find a way to fund research or travel? The France-Stanford Center offers grants, fellowships, internships and other funding
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Funding Opportunities - France-Stanford Center for AY 2020-21

FranÃ§ois D — 2019-10-30T14:49:28Z

Each year, the France-Stanford Center offers more than $200,000 in funding for research projects bringing together scholars and students based in French Institutions and Stanford University. Our funded projects span from the humanities and the social sciences to natural and applied sciences. We invite you to explore our different types of funding.
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CNES promotes Space in support of Climate at the United Nations

Edouard Lallouette — 2019-10-02T21:55:38Z

The Climate Action Summit took place from the 22^nd to the 29^th of September at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. In this context, CNES was represented by its President, Jean-Yves Le Gall accompanied by Nicolas Maubert, Space Counselor of the Embassy of France in Washington D.C. Together they participated in several events promoting the major role played by space systems in supporting climate related actions.

On Sunday 22^nd of September, the Space Applications for Climate Action conference took place in the presence of Maria Patek (Ministry of Development of Austria), Donatienne Hissard (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France), Chebet Maikut (Ministry of the Environment of Uganda), Simonetta Di Pippo (UNOOSA) and Lori Garver (Earthrise Alliance, USA). This event, organized by CNES and UNOOSA at the headquarters of the UNDP (United Nations Development Program), was an opportunity to emphasize the value and use of space data to monitor and predict climate evolutions. Among the 50 essential variables to monitor climate defined by the World Meteorological Organization, 26 come directly from space data. In this context, the Observatoire Spatial du Climat (SCO- Space Climate Observatory) created by CNES during the Paris Air Show in June 2019 was presented as an essential instrument of international cooperation and data sharing.

On Monday 23^rd of September, UNOOSA organized a “Space4All” event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly gathering the main public and private players of Space to remind the efforts led so that space data and applications are used and shared for the benefits of all, particularly emerging countries. Several private players presented their actions (Virgin Galactic, Maxar Technologies, Avio) in the presence of Jim Morhard (Deputy Administrator of NASA), Scott Pace (Executive Secretary of the National Space Council), Emanuela Del Re (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy) and Alexandre Chiteme (Ministry of Development of Zambia).

Join us on the CNES booth during the International Astronautical Congress (www.iac2019.org) which will take place in Washington D.C. from the 21st to the 25th of October.

#CNES #SpaceForAll #UNDP #UNClimateWeek