Our objectives

• Increase scientific collaboration - UK with other European countries.
• Strengthen the UK’s innovation capacity - R&D partnerships and technology transfer.
• Organise exchanges on science-related policy and best practice.
• Use science and innovation to influence international approaches to key global policy challenges such as climate change or stem cells.

Examples of our recent work

• seminar on neurodegeneration research where experts from the UK, France and Germany presented their work and identified priority areas for joint working on illnesses such as Alzheimer's or Huntingdon's disease;
• group of British doctors and scientists visited a high-tech cancer treatment facility in Caen, following contacts made at a research collaboration event we organised;
• debate on the impact of the economic crisis on older people;
• group of representatives from the CEA and CNRS took part in a 3 day visit to the UK to discover more about UK research and expertise in fuel-cell and hydrogen technologies, and the companies that market them;
• sending a French research expert to a policy seminar on obesity.
  
  

Contact us

Mark Sinclair, First Secretary, Science et Innovation
Fabien Deswarte, Senior Science and Innovation Officer
Alison MacEwen, Science and Innovation Officer

Science and Innovation
British Embassy
35 rue du Faubourg St Honoré 75008 Paris
Tel: (00 33) (0)1 44 51 31 00
Fax: (00 33) (0)1 44 51 32 41
E-mail: ParisScience.Enquiries@fco.gov.uk

Lord Paul Drayson

Lord Drayson was appointed Minister for Science and Innovation for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) in June 2009, he holds his Ministerial Office jointly with the Ministry of Defence.

Prior to the creation of BIS, Lord Drayson was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills on 6 Oct 2008.

Visit the Department for Business Innovation and Skills website

 

Our latest events

UK Biomass Gasification Mission to France / 7-8th September 2009

 
The S&I section of the British Embassy in Paris organised a UK Biomass Gasification Mission to France on 7-8th September in partnership with CEA, IFP and the National Non Food Crop Centre (NNFCC). The mission took place over two days and included visits to the two largest French research facilities dedicated to the development of this approach located in Grenoble and Solaize, respectively. A report of the mission will be available on this website shortly.

 

Franco-British Seminar on Platform Molecules from Biomass / 10-11th September 2009

 
The S&I section of the British Embassy in Paris organised, in collaboration with the French competitiveness cluster Industries & Agro-Resources (IAR),  a workshop on Platform Molecules from Biomass on the 10th of September 2009. It brought together over 65 British and French academics, industrials and government representatives to discuss challenges and opportunities to produce platform molecules or chemical "building blocks" from biomass (incl. waste) through industrial biotechnology and green chemistry and explore opportunities for bilateral collaborations. This workshop was followed by a visit to the Pomacle-Bazencourt biorefinery, located in the North-East of France, and in particular the company ARD (Agro-Industry Research and Development). A report of the workshop will be available on this website shortly.

Presentations from the two events can be dowloaded from the right-hand side menu.