The contribution of the missions of scientific cooperation to the development of francophone interuniversity partnerships

Abstract

Our paper analyzes the missions of scientific cooperation carried out by the members of the project “Strengthening of French Language and of Research in French for the non-specialist students in a multicultural and French-speaking environment”, and it takes into account the following aspects: the objectives, the participants, the program of the mobility and the results obtained. On the fourteen teachers of French language for specific purposes concerned by the project financed by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and coordinated by the « Ion Ionescu de la Brad » University of Iaşi, six have benefited from missions of scientific cooperation. The objectives pursued have been complex, starting with the identification of the training need for each partner and of those common to the whole partnership, the exchange of experiences and good practices, the major goal being the formulation of problems and solutions, for sharing and durability of French for specific purposes teaching. The activities carried out by the participants to the missions of scientific cooperation have been diverse, and our presentation is intended to underline the importance of the direct exchange in identifying strategies meant to consolidate the position of French language as a scientific communication language and to create a teachers’ and researchers’ network in the applied life sciences universities