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As part of France’s Open Data policy, managed by the Etalab agency under the authority of the office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a dedicated organisation to provide permanent identification and transmission of such data. A coordinator has been appointed within the Ministry Secretariat General, with responsibility for making data available to the public in formats designed to facilitate their widest possible use. Under the supervision of Etalab, the (...)
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Diplomatic Network
Bilateral
163 Embassies
4 Diplomatic Branch Offices
Multilateral
16 Permanent Representations
25 Ambassadors at Large
Consular Network
92 Consulates General and Consulates
5 independent Chanceries
1 Consular Branch Office
500 Consular Bureaus
Cooperation and Cultural Action Network
(as of January 1st, 2012)
8000 people distributed in 161 Cooperation and Cultural Action
services
101 French Institutes with 12 offices attached to the Paris French
Institute – 10 scientific services
445 Alliances Françaises receive subsidies
486 schools with programs in French (AEFE [agency for French
teaching abroad], French Lay Mission, other institutions)
5 French National Centers
26 research institutes and 14 branch offices
161 Campus France areas
98 Environmental Correspondents
Actions Conducted by the Cooperation and Cultural Action Network
50,000 artistic events each year
285,000 students hosted in 2010/2011 – France hosts the fourth
largest number of foreign students
470 master’s degree and doctoral students each year receive Eiffel
scholarships
800,000 students in French Institutes and Alliances Françaises
337,000 registered for French certification tests in 2010
295,000 students in schools following the French program (40%
French students) in 2010/2011
1.7 million students in bilingual sections in national education
systems
€126 million in co-financing collected in 2010
12,500 decentralized cooperation projects – 350 financed by the MFA
in 2011
160 French archaeological missions abroad
A significant commitment by France with regards to development aid
3rd largest contributor in the world to Official Development Assistance
(ODA) by volume and the number one European contributor;
Largest contributor in the world to UNITAID;
2nd largest contributor in the world to the Global Fund to Fight against
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria;
2nd largest contributor in the world to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).
Staff
(2012 employment ceiling)
| Tenured and open-ended contractual agents in the central administration | 3 084 |
| Tenured and open-ended contractual agents abroad | 2 885 |
| Fixed-term contractual agents (including international volunteers and temporary staff) | 3 164 |
| Non-Defense Budget Military Staff | 719 |
| Locally recruited staff under local laws | 5 172 |
| Total | 15 024 |
Budget (Preliminary Financing Act)
| Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Budget (in € billions) | 4,598 | 4,917 | 5,099 |
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