ESC Bretagne Brest has recently signed a bilateral cooperation agreement with Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey. This convention focuses on exchanges of students and staff. Galatasaray University is a member of the "Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie" (AUF, the French-speaking university agency).

alatasaray University is a member of the "Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie" (AUF, the French-speaking university agency). This institution includes several hundred French-speaking university establishments worldwide (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada…) or in which a French-speaking option exists. As a university with around 2500 French speaking students, Galatasaray was duty-bound to be part of this group. This collaboration is both regional and international. On a regional level, Galatasaray comes under the Central and Eastern Europe regional office, based in Bucharest, which covers the East and South-East of Europe, from Poland and Hungary to the Balkans, to Turkey and Bulgaria…

The heads of these universities meet several times a year to create links and develop partnerships in terms of student and staff exchanges, organising seminars, joint research programmes etc.

Joining the Francophone postgraduate school of social sciences

ESC is thus preparing to join the Francophone postgraduate school of social sciences (supported by AUF), set up by the University of Bucharest, alongside five other universities within the region. This school depends on a network of "host" universities trained by: the "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales" (EHESS) in Paris, the University of Laval (Quebec), the "Ecole Normale Supérieure" (ENS/ULM) in Paris, the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), the "Université Libre de Bruxelles" (Brussels), and the "Institut d'Etudes Politiques" in Paris. The role of these institutions is to host, after a year of training, PhD students with three-year funding.

On an international level, coordinated from Paris or Montreal, major thematic networks are set up (law, engineering, economics, human sciences...) and decision-making takes place, mainly in terms of geographical distribution of mobility grants for students, staff and young researchers.

Sources: http://www.gsu.edu.tr/fr/internationales/universite/membre/ -  http://www.auf.org/ and (for Central and Eastern Europe: http://www.europe-centrale-orientale.auf.org/ )