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French Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia. DREG Délégation Régionale pour l’Asie du Sud Est 29 Sathorn Tai Road Bangkok +66 2627 21 40. What for ?. To work with multilateral and regional institutions.
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French Regional Cooperationin Southeast Asia DREGDélégation Régionale pour l’Asie du Sud Est29 Sathorn Tai RoadBangkok+66 2627 21 40
What for ? To work with multilateral and regional institutions To facilitate regional integration by academic mobility and promote cooperation with french institutions of Research Tosupport trilateral cooperation
Three priorities Capacity Buiding • Engineering • Management • Law • Scientific Cooperation Health • Emergent Deseases • Animal Health Sustainable Development • Tourism (ADB) in GMS area • Agriculture • Preservation of the Environment • Fight againts human trafficking
Red Line : Research • Two regional research networks : • TIC : STIC Asiawww.ict-asia-France.org • Biotechnologies (natural substances): BIO Asia • Together with french research institutes : • IRD : Research Development Institute : Health, Minority issues,… • CIRAD: Agricultural Research Centre for Developing Countries: agroecological management, food safety and traceability and physiology of natural rubber production • CNRS: 2 International labs • …
Human and social sciencesIRASEC Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud Est Contemporaine www.irasec.com 3 Priorities : • strategic and international relations issues, • development of the Indochinese peninsula, • Socioeconomic, politic and religious development Publishing: 12 books per year 60 french and asian researchers associated
The french cooperation’s regional network • Ten bilateral cooperation departments (in each country of the area) • The french cooperation agency (one regional office in Bangkok) Bilateral cooperations Regional actions European Union (regional strategy EU-Southeast Asia)
Cooperation with AIT • Grants and scholarships for Masters in the field of management, engineering and technology, environment and development; • Bilateral student exchanges with France; • Research programs in cooperation with asian laboratories.
Trilateral Cooperation • With Singapore: • Health (Avian influenza training with Pasteur Institute); • ADETEF pour des formations de fonctionnaires à Singapour. • With Thailand : • Regional Doctoral Scholarship : Golden Jubilee Program (TICA/TRF); • Training for asean students in French Thai Innovation Centre; • Regional Workshop on Food Safety and traceability.
Thank you ! Maurice SIVETON Regional Consellor, ASEAN, based in Bangkok maurice.siveton@diplomatie.gouv.fr