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The organisation Chercheurs \u00c9trangers \u00e0 Nantes (Foreign Researchers in Nantes) is a nonprofit organisation, created in 2001 and initiated by the City Council of Greater Nantes and the University of Nantes. Its aim is to set up a one stop shop for foreign researchers arriving in Nantes and its area. It embodies the will to make Nantes an international place for research. Its missions are both to support on a daily basis the research institutes to welcome their international colleagues, and help foreign researchers and their families settling down in Nantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The organisation is a welcome desk holding the label EURAXESS Services Centre<\/a> awarded by the European Commission. The organisation Chercheurs \u00c9trangers \u00e0 Nantes is also a member of the EURAXESS France<\/a> Board of Administrators since January 2018. Chercheurs Etrangers offices are located on the ground floor of the MCE: Maison des Chercheurs \u00c9trangers (House for foreign researchers) since 2007. The organisation welcomes every day foreign researchers, takes care of the residents who live in the flats of the MCE and organises cultural events so that foreign researchers can meet each other, socialise and integrate in the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab The best part about coming to Nantes is that the association is very accessible and they help you with any matter especially in terms of getting settled in at your new location.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n– Vivek Damodar RANJAN, researcher at the Centre for Research and Transplantation and Immunology (INSERM-Nantes Universit\u00e9)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Today the association Chercheurs \u00c9trangers \u00e0 Nantes<\/em> and its two full time employees are financed by its 20 members (the Nantes Metropole Council and 19 higher education and research institutes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the years, the organisation has secured good relationships with the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the local Pr\u00e9fecture and city services, such as the department for schools.  Those contacts are helpful in quickly solving problems linked with the arrival of international researchers in Nantes, and they fully contribute to high quality standards.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Key figures, testimonies, missions \u2026 click below to read in French the annual report of the organisation Chercheurs \u00c9trangers \u00e0 Nantes. Contact us to receive paper versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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