Two organizations to simplify the arrival of foreign researchers in France

Alfred Kastler Foundation

The 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.

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.

The 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.).

With the Conférence des Présidents d'Universités, the Kastler Foundation coordinates the French network of mobility centres, member of EURAXESS, 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.