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On Friday, Jean-Noël Barrot, the country's minister for digital transition and telecommunications, said France aims to host & train 5 lakh international students by 2025.

During his visit to the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi to explore Indo-France collaborations, Barrot said France unlocks its system of higher education and research to qualified scientific and innovative minds from all over the globe so that by 2025, we would achieve the objective of hosting and training 5 lakh international students.

The minister said 4 lakh international students are already there, and several Indian students would then be, as per President Emmanuel Macron's vision, 20,000," Mr. Barot said.

Mr. Barot said IIIT Delhi is also contributing to our project of a new Franco-Indian Campus on Health that shall be active from next year, partnering here with the University of Nice in France in the area of computational biomedicine, jointly with the most prominent French research institutes in these fields are

• INRIA- National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology


• INSERM- National Institute of Health and Medical Research


• CNRS- French National Centre for Scientific Research

During the visit, students and faculty members of the institute displayed their research projects. The showcase included a number of exciting projects like (ALIVE)- Autonomous Last Mile Vehicle, Real-world AI for Healthcare, Autonomous Precision Landing of Drone, Vision for Wildlife, E-Sahayatri - Your travel buddy, Smart, and sustainable mobility, Facial Image Retrieval using Similarity-Driven Feedback, (FedAutoMoDL) Federated Automated Deep Learning among others.

Mr. Barrot also informed that France has made the international partnership a priority. This step can be noticed by looking at the international co-publications- more than 60% of scientific publications are created with a foreign research organisation.

Another indicator is the Ph.D. students: Out of the 70,000 Ph.D. students doing their Ph.D. course in France, 40% come from abroad, putting France in the third position worldwide. In this landscape, India plays a remarkable role. Scientific exchanges between our two nations began several centuries ago. In the history of relations, science and technology have become one of the most reliable and long-lasting bonds between France and India.

News Source: NDTV