ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young and French Ambassador His Excellency Michel Filhol sign the agreement.
French and Australian experts on Pacific issues will work together following the signing today of an agreement between the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and The Australian National University. The École des Hautes Études (EHESS - Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) is one of the prestigious 'High Colleges' of the French tertiary education sector. The agreement, signed today by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young and French Ambassador His Excellency Michel Filhol, will see the two institutions share social science expertise and give added strength to collaborative research in the Pacific through the launch of a new EHESS-Canberra Branch at ANU. It will also see a Professor from EHESS based at ANU to organise the Branch and the collaborative programs. Vice-Chancellor Professor Young said the agreement between the two institutions highlighted the expertise and research strength at both institutions. 'ANU is proud of its globally-recognised strength in Pacific studies which has been built over many years through a remarkable collection of scholars working on Melanesia and Polynesia,' he said. 'France, too, has longstanding interests in and expertise on the Pacific region.
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