Singapore-France Research agreements

Collaborations between Singapore and France enable several researchers every year to further their research with the resources from both countries.

About the Groupement de Recherche International (GDRI)

A GDRI is a scientific coordination network gathering research teams in European and non-European countries. Its activities are coordinated by a scientific committee. It is adviced not to have more than three French laboratories involved, it last four years and is renewable once.

GDRI SINERGIE – NERGIE (2016-2020)

CNRS / NTU (ERI@N) / CEA (Iramis et Inac) / ENGIE / Centrale Supélec / Ecoles centrales Lyon et Nantes / Institut National Polytech Grenoble / Insa Lyon / Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / Univ Corse Pascal Paoli / UGA / Univ Paris Sud / UPMC

This GDRI is about the renewable energy management, integration and design (smart networks, power systems, energy storage, smart buildings, etc).

Research Agreements

CEA – NTU

In late 2012, the Energy Research Institute (ERI@N) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) signed a research collaboration agreement for future projects.

Sorbonne Paris Cité – NUS

Since 2013, Sorbonne Paris Cité University and NUS signed an agreement to promote new scientific collaborations between Europe and ASEAN. Joint call offers were set up in 2013 to finance joint research projects and students/PhD exchanges, and in 2014 were added the possibility to finance educative collaboration projects.

Université Paris Dauphine – SMU

In April 2014, Paris-Dauphine University and Singaporean Management University (SMU) signed an alliance to develop and gather international recognized universities. This partnership gathers the university platforms to meet the educative and research strenght of each university in Social Sciences and Management.

IRT System X – NTU

Since 2017, System X and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) signed an alliance to develop collaboration in several areas like sustainable development, environment, smart mobility and smart urban solutions.

Many collaboration agreements for R&D purposes exist between French companies and Singaporean research entities, such as GDF-Suez, EDF, Veolia, PSA, Total, Alstom, Airbus Group, Engie, Thales, …