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Thank you to everyone who applied for the 2018 PhD Mobility Grant! The competition was particularly strong this year and we received a number of high quality proposals.

Among those highly qualified applicants, we are pleased to announce the 14 selected recipients! 

The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination will open its doors in Paris in fall 2018. Its annual cohort will comprise seven Columbia University faculty fellows and seven fellows - scholars, writers and creative artists -  from outside the USA. Its purpose is to question the established ways in which knowledge is defined, produced, and taught.

Everything new at École Polytechnique in December 2017.

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University welcomes Professor LynNell Hancock from the Columbia University, who has been selected for a teaching visit during the forthcoming spring semester. In addition to teaching one lecture, course or seminar in her field, Professor Hancock will also be supporting the Alliance Program as one of our Ambassadors by meeting colleagues and participating in a series of seminars and conferences.

"Carte Blanche" with Richard Pena, Director Emeritus of New York Film Festival, Professor at Columbia University, and Alliance Visiting Professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Everything new at Sciences Po in October 2017

Everything new at École Polytechnique in October 2017.

                                    Summer School
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne – Columbia University NY
        _{in partnership with Sciences-Po Paris and the École Polytechnique}
                  27th, 28th and 29th of June 2018

_{Submissions deadline: Friday, October 23, 2017
To: [email protected]
Submissions format: One page of approximately 350-350 words in French or English.
The candidates must attach…}

Everything new at École Polytechnique in September 2017.

We at Alliance are proud to introduce or new Director, Emmanuel Kattan. Prior to joining Alliance, Emmanuel was Director of the British Council in New York, where he oversaw academic collaboration programs. He created partnerships with the Henry Luce Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation to launch initiatives connecting higher education institutions across the Atlantic.

A native of Montreal, Emmanuel studied politics in Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and earned a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Everything new at École Polytechnique in July-August 2017.

The purpose of Sorbonne Sustainable Development  is to train a new generation of researchers and decision-makers that will have the disciplinary expertise and the interdisciplinary knowledge fit to address and solve the societal challenges posed by sustainable development.

The Alliance Program DEADLINE for Visiting Professors, Joint Projects, and Trilateral Initiatives in Emerging Regions is on July 21, 2017.

École Polytechnique and its accelerator X-Up were present from June 15 to June 17 at the VivaTechnology fair in Paris. It was an opportunity to discover start-ups of its fifth promotion and see those that came by Polytechnique in recent years.

Alessia Lefébure, director of the Alliance Program for the last six years, speaks with France-Amérique.

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University is requesting paper proposals to present for its conference series “Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference,” which will convene first in Amman and then in Tunis.

Alliance alumna Héloïse Berkowitz will be joining the French Center for National Research and Science (CNRS) as a researcher in September 2017.

The Alliance Program has extended the grant deadline for ???? Visiting Professors, Joint Projects, and Trilateral Initiatives in Emerging Regions to Jul 21, 2017.

A film series organized and presented by Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies at Columbia and former Director of the New York Film Festival.

We extend our deepest welcome and congratulations to Laure Neumayer, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has been awarded a Fulbright Schuman Grant to be a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and East European studies from January to June 2018.

X-CubeSat, the nano-satellite of the student space center of the École Polytechnique (AstronautiX), has just been launched in orbit on May 17, 2017 from the ISS. It joined the International Space Station (ISS) on March 24, aboard the Cygnus refueling vessel launched by an Atlas V rocket after six years of development. Between the X2010 and X2015 promotions, no fewer than fifty-seven polytechnicists, eight engineers, researchers and two trainees succeeded in realizing this formidable project.

Alliance congratulates Dual Degree undergraduate and graduate students who are graduating from Columbia and Sciences Po/Ecole Polytechnique/Paris 1 as members of the 2017 class.

Wishing you a wonderful commencement week and, after graduation, we hope that you will keep in touch with Alliance and attend the upcoming academic events and programs in Paris and in New York in the years to come.

Everything new at École Polytechnique in May 2017.

Alliance would like to congratulate Professor Diane Bodart, who was just awarded a prestigious grant for her research on scribbles. Her research started with a Joint Projects Grant in partnership with Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2015-2016.