By: Pierre Tran
PARIS — Flinders University, based in Adelaide, South Australia, and four top French engineering schools signed a cooperation agreement on research tied to Australia’s Future Submarine Program, the five academic partners said Tuesday.
“Flinders University and four of France’s leading graduate schools of engineering will today enter into an academic and research cooperation agreement relating to Australia’s Future Submarine Program,” the institutes said in a joint statement.
French universities ENSTA ParisTech, École Centrale de Nantes, CentraleSupélec and École Polytechnique along with Flinders signed a memorandum of understanding, which creates a “group of scientific interest.”
The MoU seeks “to foster joint research projects, student and staff exchanges, and a new wave of Australian-French innovation and entrepreneurial projects related to the Future Submarine Program to be centered in Adelaide,” the universities said.
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