Summary of AFAS objectives and activities

AFAS objective:

To facilitate cooperation between France and Australia
in the field of science and technology

3 chapters (incorporated associations) : NSW, Victoria and ACT

AFAS Activities

Each AFAS chapter, in its area of action, implements and contributes to the activities of the international networks FEAST-France and UBIFrance:

Research and Technology
(including higher education, and humanities and social sciences)

FEAST-France is the French-Australian Research Network (www.ambafrance-au.org/science/),created in 2002.

It is a sub-group of FEAST (Forum for European-Australian S&T cooperation, http://www.feast.org/), created in 2000.

FEAST and FEAST-France bring together more than 2,000 researchers, engineers and research administrators, from public and private sectors.

FEAST and FEAST-France are based on initiatives of the Science & Technology section of the French Embassy in Australia.

Technology and Industry
(including business related questions)

Ubifrance (http://www.ubifrance.com/) is a French public agency under the umbrella of the French Department of Economy, Finance and Industry including Foreign Trade matters.

With its network of 3,000 French companies and 49 associations gathering 35,000 individual members world-wide, it deals with market information and with promotion of French technologies, know how and designs.

The French Trade Commission is the representative of UBIFrance in Australia.

Social and Cultural activities, with a taste of France! (including wine and cheese…)

Some activities draw in our friends from the Alliance Française

AFAS websites

AFAS national sponsors (see the relevant websites)