The Delegation for international relations (DRI) was created in 1982. Guy Laval is the present Vice-President / Foreign Affairs, in post since January 2008.

The delegate organizes meetings and draws up agreements with foreign Academies and similar institutions. He is a member by right of several committees or commissions with an international brief.
Since 1982, 43 high-level agreements on scientific cooperation have been signed with Academies of sciences around the globe. The first of these were with India, Poland and Sweden.

Special agreements, providing for exchanges of speakers, have been signed with the Royal Society (lectures : Claude Bernard and Humphry Davy ), with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (lectures : Louis de Broglie and Enrico Fermi) and with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschapen (lectures : René Descartes and Christian Huygens).

The delegate maintains a close relationship with various multilateral interacademy organizations:
-the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU),
-ALL European Academies (ALLEA),
-the InterAcademy Panel for international issues (IAP),
-the International Academy Council (IAC),
-the European Academies Scientific Advisory Council (EASAC),
and also with
-the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

The international Prizes show the cooperation between the french Academy of sciences and some foreign Academies:
-Lounsbery Award,
-Descartes-Huygens Award,
-Gay-Lussac - Humboldt Award,
-Microsoft Award.

The DRI participates, with EASAC and the European Commission to the organisation of pairing between european scientists and members of Parliament.

The DRI participates to the Joint Science Academies’ Statement for the G8+5 countries.

Administrator
Anne Andivero
Tél.: 33+ (0)1 44 41 44 01- Fax : 33+ (0)1 44 41 45 54
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