The village des sciences is one of the numerous events organised for the Fête de la Science in France. This year this event is also included in the double-decker bus journey organised for the "British Week".Seminar on " Climate-Society Interactions - Case studies from Africa". Scientists from France, the UK and Africa exchanged their findings and discussed their ideas on different aspects of the subject. Organised in collaboration with Dr Declan Conway, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia and Dr Gil Mahé, Institut de Recherche sur le Développement, Montpellier.
Professor Paul Pearson (University of Cardiff) and Dr Valérie Masson-Delmotte (CEA) presented issues related to climate change, in a Parisian pub.
(Paris, Frog at Bercy, November 2005)
he British Council stand presented the latest development of British science through three themes : astrochemistry, face research and climate prediction.
(Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg, Octobre 2005)
A transnational debate on the key issues surrounding Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), open to young people aged 18 to 25. Videolink with Oxford and Belgrade
(British Council, March 2005)
Seminar on "Chirality in Molecular Physics" , bringing together young scientists from France, the UK, Germany and Italy. Organised in collaboration with Professor Ivan Powis from the University of Nottingham and Professor Françoise Lahmani, CNRS.
(British Council, March 05)
As part of the lecture series “The Origins of Language and the Origins of Languages”, the famous British archaeologist Lord Colin Renfrew narrated the saga of the Indo-European languages.
(Cité des Sciences, February 2005)
As befits this Entente Cordiale centenary year, the British Council’s stand in the village des sciences ( set up for the first time in the Jardin du Luxembourg) focused on examples where teams from France and the UK have been producing world-class science together: antibiotics nanostructures, animal physiology.
Two reknown scientists, Professor Denis Noble (University of Oxford) and Professor Richard Frackowiak (University College London) gave a lecture at the Ecole des Mines, respectively on computer modelling of the human body and brain imaging.
British science documentaries were screened at the British Council during the week.
An international conference on brain drain, researchers' mobility and the attractiveness of European countries and the European research sector. This international event is organised by the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, with the support of the British Council, the German and Italian Embassies, and the European Commission.
(CIté des Sciences, June 2004)
This event aimed to provide an informative, accessible and stimulating insight into a range of current “state-of-the-art” research areas, drawing on the expertise of teams whose work has benefited in recent years from Franco-British collaboration.
(British Council, June 2004)
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