Dumont d'Urville NZ/France S&T Support Programme

In November 2005 an arrangement was signed between the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research and the New Zealand Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. The broad purpose of the arrangement is to promote and support scientific and technological cooperation between New Zealand and French researchers in the public, non-government and private sectors in the fields of biotechnology; nanosciences; and renewable energy.

To support New Zealand-initiated activities under the Bilateral Arrangement, the Minister of Research, Science and Technology, through the International Science and Technology (ISAT) Linkages Fund, has allocated funding of $90,000 per annum to the Dumont dUrville Programme. 

The name of the programme acknowledges the substantial scientific contribution made by the expeditions to New Zealand by Dumont dUrville in the early 19th Century.

Funding under this round will be provided for: The development of collaborative exchange projects in the fields identified above where the visit by one (group) of researchers to the other promises to improve the level of co-operation on specific projects.

Please note that research, scientific and technological cooperation with New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Islands of Wallis and Futuna is NOT eligible for support through the Dumont d’Urville programme.  Such cooperation should be directed to the Pacific Fund which is administered by the French Permanent Secretariat - see (http://www.ambafrance-nz.org/spip.php?article1671).

Applications to the 2010 Dumont d'Urville NZ/France S&T Support Programme are now closed.