Veuillez noter que la date butoir pour l’appel aux projets français a été étendue au 30 avril 2017.

La date butoir pour l'appel aux projets néo-zélandais est néanmoins fixée au 31 mars 2017.

The Joint Board of the New Zealand France Friendship Fund has decided that its Excellence Scholarship will be discontinued effective 1 January 2017.  The final scholarships have been awarded for the 2017 academic year and no further scholarships will be offered. 

Veuillez noter que le comité du Fonds d’Amitié France/Nouvelle-Zélande a décidé de mettre fin à la bourse d’excellence à partir du 1er janvier 2017.  Les bourses finales ont été attribuées pour l'année académique 2017.  Aucune autre bourse ne sera offerte. 

Veuillez noter que la date de dépôt des candidatures pour la bourse française a été reculée du 15 novembre au 24 novembre 2016.

D'un accord commun entre le Président du Comité français et le MAEDI, la date de dépôt des candidatures pour la bourse excellence a été reculée du 15 novembre au 24 novembre 2016. 

​Please note that the date for applications for the French Excellence Scholarship has been extended until 24 November 2016.

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The New Zealand France Friendship Fund awards an academic Excellence Scholarship to one New Zealand student for postgraduate studies in France at masters or doctoral level.

The New Zealand student will receive a one-off grant of NZ$25,000.  New Zealand applications are to be made to the French Embassy in Wellington by 31 December 2016 for study in France during the following academic year.

For more information, regulations, and application forms, visit the website of Universities New Zealand.

Le Fonds d’Amitié France / Nouvelle-Zélande alloue une bourse d’excellence à un étudiant français, désireux de poursuivre dans la Nouvelle-Zélande des études au niveau "master" ou "doctorat".

Les postulants à cette bourse doivent avoir pris contact avec une université néo-zélandaise dans le but de s’inscrire dans une formation de niveau Post-Graduate (Masters, Honours, PhD) à compter de la rentrée universitaire de l’hémisphère sud en février 2017.

Le formulaire de candidature et l’ensemble des pièces constitutives du dossier devront être adressés pour le 15 novembre 2016 au Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international.

The 2017 laureate of the Randell Cottage Residency will be Dr Josef Schovanec.

Josef Schovanec is a French writer, polyglot and activist for autistic people who has published four books including Voyages en Autistan (Plon, Paris) and Je Suis à l’Est !, the first memoir by an autistic person to be released by a major French publisher.

Josef was born in 1981 in the greater Paris region to Czech immigrant parents. After completing a degree at L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris  (Paris Institute of Political Studies), he studied Hebrew, Sanskrit, Persian, Amharic, Azeri, Azerbaijani and Ethiopian at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, on top of the Czech, German, Finnish and English, which he speaks fluently. 

Josef Schovanec is also a weekly guest on radio stations Europe 1 (France) and la Première (RTBF, Belgium).  In 2016, he was appointed as an advisor to the French Secretary of State for Disabled People and the Fight Against Exclusion.             

Josef Shovanec will arrive in Wellington in mid-January 2017 and will stay for a five month residency. While in New Zealand, he will work on his next book and will travel on a speaking tour throughout the country.     His Randell Cottage book project focusses on developing a fictional narrative based on the story of an autistic friend’s journeys and research in the Pacific.

Le Fonds d’Amitié France / Nouvelle-Zélande alloue une bourse d’excellence à un étudiant néo-zélandais et à un étudiant français, désireux de poursuivre dans le pays partenaire des études au niveau "master" ou "doctorat".

Les postulants à cette bourse doivent avoir pris contact avec une université néo-zélandaise dans le but de s’inscrire dans une formation de niveau Post-Graduate (Masters, Honours, PhD) à compter de la rentrée universitaire de l’hémisphère sud en février 2017.

Le formulaire de candidature et l’ensemble des pièces constitutives du dossier devront être adressés pour le 15 novembre 2016 au Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international.

In April 2016, a group from Nga Tawa Diocesan School in Marton visited their sister school in Conty (Collège Jules Ferry) for ANZAC Day commemorations.  They were invited to sing at special ceremonies in Longueval and Le Quesnoy.  They also took part in the official military parade in Paris on 28 April.  They are pictured here by the Arc de Triomphe with former All Blacks, Joe Rokocoko and Dan Carter.  Nga Tawa will host a group from Conty next week and hopes to return to France in 2018 for commemorations to mark the end of the Great War in 1918. 

The 2016 New Zealand NZFFF Excellence Scholarship has been awarded to Benjamin Wilson from the University of Canterbury.

The 21-year student has been awarded $25,000 to do a PhD in synthetic chemistry at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Canterbury. 

Benjamin has a First Class Honours degree from Canterbury University (BSc. (Hons) First Class).  He achieved a maximum GPA of 9.00/9.00, ranking top of his class.  He was last year awarded the Roper Scholarship for the top science student at Canterbury University.

A former Head Prefect of Shirley Boys’ High School, Benjamin was given direct entry into second year Chemistry in recognition of his outstanding academic performance in his final year at school.

Professor Paul Kruger of Canterbury University’s College of Science said Benjamin is the most gifted student he has taught in a 20-year academic career.

He has selected the CNRS Institutes of Bordeaux for its expertise and knowledge in the area of magneto-chemistry.  Benjamin will be jointly supervised by Professor Paul Kruger (Canterbury) and Dr Rodolphe Clérac and Professor Corine Mathonière from the University of Bordeaux.  It is hoped that the co-supervision arrangement will lead to ongoing collaboration between the two institutions.

In addition to his scientific studies, Benjamin studied French throughout high school and went on a school exchange to France, where he was stayed with a French family in the town of Bourges. 

For the fulfillment of her MSc in Geology and Geophysics of the University of Strasbourg, Sandrine Roy recently completed an internship at the Department of Geography of the University of Canterbury under the supervision of Dr C.Gomez and Dr H.Purdie.

Sandrine conduced a preliminary assessment of the rock fall onto the Fox Glacier using the physics-2.5D model: RockFall Analyst by Lan et al 2007.  At first, she used a drone to take extensive pictures of the steep slope in contact with the lateral glacier. Using this set of pictures, she built a high resolution surface model of the local catchment and conduced the rock fall simulations on the digitised surface.

Sandrine's thesis shows that the lateral glacier morphology is changing from a convex to a concave transverse profile. Thus, the rocks travel further out onto the glacier. She identified potential rock fall run-outs on hazard maps and provided a first assessment tool to the Fox Glacier Guiding company. Sandrine also evidenced the strong limits of the model used. She presented her work at the annual Snow and Ice New Zealand Research meeting in June 2015 in Cass and gave a conference at the 13th International Symposium of Geo-Disaster Reduction in August 2015 in the Prague, Czech Republic. 

The next goal in her scientific career is to do a PhD thesis in the fields of Physical Geography and Geomorphology. Her research interests are focusing on the interaction between paraglacial processes, climate and rockfall hazard in alpine environment. Such environments are sensitive to climate and represent one of the keys to understand the current and future climate changes.