Eiffelturm am Ufer der Seine in Paris. Foto: Unsplash/John Towner.
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Science in France

For centuries, France has been one of the largest and most populous states in Central Europe. Today it is the largest state in the EU in terms of area and the member state with the second highest population after Germany. The research landscape is as broad and complex as the country itself, which stretches between the Alps and the Pyrenees, the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Particularly important areas of research, however, are agriculture, energy supply and medicine. Aeronautics and space travel should also be highlighted, with Toulouse as the European capital of space and some airy inventions. For example, the hot-air balloon of the Montgolfier brothers or the Concorde, the famous passenger plane with supersonic speed, developed and built together with Great Britain. Another French development makes excursions into underwater worlds possible: the scuba diver, invented in 1943 by the legendary ocean explorer Jaques Cousteau.

The Facts

Population 68,170,000 [1]
Area 547,557 km² [2]
Gross domestic product per capita in US-Dollar 46,001.0 [3]
Public expenditure on education (share of GDP) 5.5 % [4]
Share of female researchers 28.3 %
Universities 617
Universities per 1 million inhabitants 9.50
Students 2,679,473
Expenditure on Research and Development (share of GDP) 2.2 (share of GDP) [5]

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Reindeer hunters in southern France
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Reindeer hunters in southern France
The former home of the reindeer hunters lies inconspicuously under a rock face near the village of Sergeac in the French department of Dordogne. Some 37,000 years ago, our ancestors lived under the rock shelter of Abri Castanet in southern France. It was probably members of the Aurignacian culture who decorated the ceiling of the […]
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Musée Curie
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Musée Curie
Curie is a name that is associated with scientific excellence and female emancipation like no other. Marie Curie is so far the only woman to have received two Nobel Prizes. No man has yet managed to be honoured with the most prestigious prize in two different natural sciences. She discovered the chemical elements radium and […]
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Ausgestellte alte Segelflugzeuge
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Cité de l’Espace
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Cité de l’Espace
The ‘Cité de l’Espace’, in English: the City of Space, is located in Toulouse in the south of France. Toulouse is considered the European capital of the aerospace industry. The Cité de l’Espace was opened in 1997 and is a mixture of adventure and theme park. Visitors to the park can see a replica of […]
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Ein altes Gebäude mit Säulen und einem Runddach, obendrauf die Französische Flagge.
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Paris Panthéon
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Paris Panthéon
The monumental domed building was actually supposed to be a church. When the Paris Panthéon was completed in 1790 during the French Revolution, the leaders of the Revolution quickly converted the building into a national hall of fame. From then on, important figures in France were honoured there. In the course of history, a total […]
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Historisches Gebäude mit dem Schriftzug Institut Pasteur
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Institut Pasteur
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Institut Pasteur
Behind the walls of the elegant building in Paris, major scientific breakthroughs have been made time and again for 150 years.
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