Established in 1993 as a partnership between the government
of France and the University of California at Berkeley, the France-Berkeley
Fund (FBF) promotes scholarly exchange in all disciplines between
UC Berkeley and all research centers and public institutions of
higher education in France. Through its annual grant competition,
the Fund provides seed-money for innovative, bi-national collaborative
research. (Since September 1999, applications from UC Davis and
UC Santa Cruz have also been eligible for the competition). Successful
projects bring together senior and junior researchers in a variety
of ways, from workshops and conferences to exchanges of researchers
in laboratories. Since 1993, the France-Berkeley Fund has awarded
more than $900,000 to fund nearly 100 projects in a wide range
of fields -- from viticulture and bioengineering to health care
policy and Asian history -- involving a total of three UC campuses,
the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and more than fifty French institutions.
Many past FBF grant recipients have gone on to secure additional
funding from private and governmental sources on both sides of
the Atlantic to further their collaboration. In addition to the
grant competition, the Fund administers the Berkeley-C.N.R.S.
exchange of scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Please see our
2008 Call for Applications.
Susanna Barrows (History)
Executive Director
sbarrows@berkeley.edu
Michelle Bertho
Program Coordinator
mbertho@berkeley.edu
The France-Berkeley Fund (FBF) was established in 1993
by the University of California at Berkeley and the French Ministère
des Affaires Etrangères in order to support scientific
and scholarly exchanges and collaboration between Berkeley and
research and higher education institutions in France. Applications
are accepted in all fields - the Humanities, Social Sciences,
Exact Sciences, Engineering and the Applied Sciences, and the
Professional Schools. The Fund considers projects jointly submitted
by a tenured or tenure-track professor at UC Berkeley, UC Davis
or UC Santa Cruz and a professor or researcher with a permanent
affiliation with a French public research institution or institution
of higher learning.
Le Fonds France-Berkeley a été créé en 1993 par le
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères français et l'Université de
Californie à Berkeley afin de favoriser les échanges et les collaborations
scientifiques et universitaires entre l'université de Berkeley et les
instituts de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur français. Les
candidatures sont acceptées dans tous les domaines- Lettres, Sciences
Sociales, Sciences Exactes, Sciences Appliquées ou Sciences de l'Ingénieur.
Les projets doivent être soumis conjointement par un professeur ou un chercheur
titularisé de UC Berkeley, de UC Davis, ou de UC Santa Cruz et par un
professeur ou un chercheur titularisé d'un institut public de recherche
ou d'une institution d'enseignement supérieur français.
