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France’s initiative for bringing together “deeptech” startups is seeking to recruit American researchers focused on bringing their technologies to life in Europe.
The Start in France program is taking applications from U.S.-based Ph.D. students, post-doctoral researchers and professors through April 5, offering them an expenses-paid immersion into one of three French innovation ecosystems: Toulouse (Atlanta’s sister city), Aix-Marseilles-Provence and Grenoble.
La Synapse, an initiative of the Office for Science and Technology, launched a hub within the Consulate General of France in Atlanta in 2023.
Since it launched in 2006 under the Young Enterprise Initiative moniker, the program has netted nearly 200 participants, 15 percent of whom have started a business in France after going through the program.
Focused on transatlantic exchanges in deeptech, which the French government defines as groundbreaking innovations rooted in new science, La Synapse has also brought more than 200 French startups to the United States, including to Atlanta through its New Technology Venture Accelerator, or NETVA, program.
To apply for Start in France, go here.
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