Franco-Scottish links in research, innovation and higher education

Overview of Franco-Scottish higher education and research partnerships including analysis and recommendations for furthering collaboration between France and Scotland.


Footnotes

1. ERC_Panel_structure_2021_2022 (europa.eu)

2. Gross expenditure on research and development Scotland 2018 (gov.scot)

3. Industrial Strategy: building a Britain fit for the future (gov.uk)

4. Population estimates for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland mid 2019 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

5. Database - Science, technology and innovation - Eurostat (europa.eu) - R&D personnel at national and regional level, values for 2018

6. InCites essential Science Indicators (clarivate.com) – Top Papers by Territories

7. Scotland's Science Landscape (2007-2016) Report | The Scottish Science Advisory Council

8. État de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation en France numéro 13 (enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)

9. UK Research and Development Roadmap (gov.uk)

10. UK International Research and Innovation Strategy (gov.uk)

11. Protecting Scotland, Renewing Scotland (gov.scot)

12. Shaping Scotland's economy: inward investment plan (gov.scot)

13. Economic Recovery Implementation Plan (gov.scot)

14. Scotland: a trading nation (gov.scot)

15. Rural Affairs, Food and Environment Research Strategy for 2016 - 2021 (gov.scot)

16. Environment, natural resources and agriculture research - draft strategy (gov.scot)

17. Scottish Government Health and Social Care Research Strategy (gov.scot)

18. Scottish National Research Framework for Problem Drug Use and Recovery (gov.scot)

19. A Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Strategy for Scotland (gov.scot)

20. Stratégie nationale de recherche - S.N.R. - Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)

21. Open innovation, open science, open to the world - a vision for Europe (europa.eu)

22. Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 (Shanghai Ranking)

23. Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

24. QS World University Rankings

25. Scotland's Economic Strategy (gov.scot)

26. Scottish Government Economic Action Plan 2019-20 (gov.scot)

27. Business enterprise research and development 2019 (gov.scot)

28. UK Innovation survey 2019: Results for Scotland (gov.scot)

29. Research in France (campusfrance.org)

30. Poles de Competitivite (gouv.fr)

31. Universities Final Funding Announcement 2019-20 (sfc.ac.uk)

32. UKRI Competitive Funding Decision 2019-20 - UK Research and Innovation | Tableau Public

33. Scottish Budget 2019-2020 (gov.scot)

34. European Territorial Cooperation Programmes 2021-2027: consultation report (gov.scot)

35. Erasmus+ factsheets (europa.eu)

36. Horizon dashboard - Country profiles (ec.europa.eu)

37. Creating international opportunities (ukri.org)

38. Transnational cooperation strategies (anr.fr)

39. Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders (oecd.org)

40. COST country profile - United Kingdom and France (cost.eu)

41. Erasmus + factsheets (ec.europa.eu)

42. New Turing scheme to support thousands of students to study and work abroad (gov.uk)

43. The Scottish Government took the decision not to treat EU students differently as without EU regulations there is no legal basis for doing so. This could have opened the country to challenges from both international and UK students who might have argued for their right to free tuition.

44. Horizon dashboard - Implementation figures - Funded projects (ec.europa.eu)

45. The Loi de Programme pour la Recherche of 2003 encouraged closer research partnerships between universities and research institutes. This resulted in many universities mergers, with an added objective to increase international visibility. The results of those successive reforms are still quite debated, with many pointing out that consortiums only resulted in wider territorial inequalities and low added value.

46. Future international partnerships

47. The scale of UK higher education transnational education 2018-19: Scottish providers

Contact

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