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OUR KEY GOALS
►To develop technical and business co-operation between France and her foreign partners.
►To offer a variety of means to help French decision-makers build closer links with decision-makers in other countries.
UBIFRANCE can offer access to privileged sources of information regarding French businesses, thanks to its unrivalled expertise in the promotion of French technology, products and services.
BRINGING TOGETHER FRENCH BUSINESS PEOPLE AND THEIR FOREIGN COUNTERPARTS
■ Inviting foreign decision-makers to
France
UBIFRANCE organises technical information programmes to enable foreign decision-makers to meet up with French managers in their sector of activity and to find out about the technologies that they are developing.
■ Meeting foreign decision-makers outside
France
At international trade fairs, UBIFRANCE organises group participation for French companies as well as other promotional activities. It also arranges multi-sector exhibitions of French technology and presentations of French products outside
France
.
Besides, through the organisation of technical symposia and conferences abroad, UBIFRANCE enables French professionals to present their expertise to top decision-makers from industry and government bodies in host countries.
■ Helping to forge contacts
UBIFRANCE has built up a unique network of around 35,000 foreign decision-makers who have attended its events – prime contacts for French companies in more than 100 countries around the world. These decision-makers are members of about 40 associations, run by UBIFRANCE, which represent useful points of reference for companies.
INFORMING ON FRENCH PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE PRESS
UBIFRANCE runs 17 press offices around the world. This unique business and hi-tech information network covers major international markets and countries with an active, internationally recognised trade press.
The press offices send out press releases on innovative French products and longer articles on dynamic sectors in
France
and interesting new projects. They also advise French companies on making the most of the foreign trade press.
Each year, UBIFRANCE organises press trips for foreign journalists wishing to discover more about French technology in their own particular sectors.
DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN FRENCH COMPANIES AND COMPANIES IN HOST-COUNTRIES
UBIFRANCE co-ordinates publicly funded programmes to bring companies together through joint ventures, subcontracting agreements, technology transfers, and so on.
UBIFRANCE also offers advice and support to French companies that are approaching the EU authorities in
Brussels
about the various network systems, aid programmes and existing financial schemes (Interprise, Phare, Jev, Al-Invest, Asia-Invest, Synergy, Meda, Coopeco, EIC, etc.).
In addition, UBIFRANCE offers a specific aid programme for partnerships between companies in
France
and
Quebec
(in Canada).
ENCOURAGING INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
UBIFRANCE manages a programme of International Volunteers for placements with French companies outside
France
, known under the French acronym ‘VIE’. This programme enables young women and men to experience foreign cultures through the undertaking of professional and paid work placements within French companies.
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