Regional Reception Office of Foreign Researchers

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)
  Maison Internationale (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

• BAEM (Reception Office of Mobile Students). It offers a variety of services intended to facilitate PhD foreign students and other students stay in Paris, well before their arrival in France.
  Contact : Marie Haeussler Burcklen
  Bureau d'Accueil des Chercheurs Etrangers (BACE)
  Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP)
  Maison Internationale (Résidence Honnorat) - 17, boulevard Jourdan
  F - 75690 Paris Cedex 14
  Phone: +33 (0)1 70 08 76 36 - Fax : 01 45 89 37 48
  e-mail: baem@ciup.fr
  http://www.ciup.fr/students_office.htm

• 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
  6 boulevard Dubreuil
  F-91400 Orsay
  Phone: +33 (0)1 69 33 16 85 - Fax: +33 (0)1 69 07 21 53
  contact@science-accueil.org