Université Paris-Saclay
The University of Exeter and Université Paris-Saclay have embarked on a new strategic partnership, designed to drive high-impact collaboration between two of Europe’s most research-intensive institutions. Our partnership aims to support cutting-edge, faculty-led collaboration across some of the most crucial research themes, seeking solutions to pressing, shared global challenges.
These collaborations will centre around research into areas including (but not exclusively) climate and environmental science, law, social sciences, AI and data science, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and Health.
This strategic partnership, built upon a natural alignment of vision, ambition and capability between the two institutions, will help produce structured networks to promote academic and research excellence.
The University of Exeter and Université Paris-Saclay partner for a range of collaborative activities, built upon a foundation of research and education links plus shared strategic priorities. We have established research cooperation in Climate Science, Sports Science, and Computer Sciences; along with emerging cooperation in areas including Antimicrobial Resistance from a One Health perspective and broader Global Health research in areas such as public health, healthy ageing and health inequalities. We have established a five-year ‘Cotutelle agreement’, enabling delivery of a series of double PhD degree projects with match-funding and co-supervision from both institutions in which successful students will obtain PhD awards from both Exeter and Université Paris-Saclay. We have established a research internship student exchange, offering clinical electives of for outbound and inbound medical students each year, allowing our students to explore different medical specialties and healthcare environments by observing clinical practice.
Our newest initiative enhances existing Exeter–Saclay activity. At the heart of the 2025-28 agreement is a commitment to joint investment, including a €60,000 per year strategic fund that will fuel:
- Seed funding for new research and education collaborations
- Accelerator grants to scale high-potential projects.
- Graduate research student mobility to foster international talent pathways.
- Professional Services staff exchange to share practice, drive institutional learning.
For more information on our strategic partnership, please check out the following pages:
