Partnership
The Government of the Republic of France in conjunction with the Indonesian Government has established the NUSANTARA Program. NUSANTARA is jointly managed by the Indonesian Ministry for Research, Technology and Higher Education (RISTEKDIKTI) and its French counterparts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI) and the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education and Research (MENESR) but should encompass projects by any research centre irrespective of its administrative attachment.

Objective
The objective of NUSANTARA is to promote and support the new project of scientific and technological cooperation, between French and Indonesian researchers in both public and private sectors.

Eligibility
Will be eligible to NUSANTARA is any research laboratories from universities, public sector research institutes and small companies.
The programme is open to the following areas of research:
• Food Technology;
• Energy (new and renewable energy);
• Health and Medicine;
• Marine and Maritime Technology;
• Transportation Technology;
• Information and Communication Technology;
• Human and Social sciences;
• Advanced material, i.e. nanotechnology;
• Climate change and the preservation of the environment: animal and vegetal biodiversity; water, land, climactic changes;
• Assessment and prevention of natural risks and or disaster management – including early warning system which involve geological, seismic, volcanic, climactic, geomagnetic sciences

It should be noted that the French and Indonesian partners have to submit the same proposal to their respective agencies in charge of the management of the NUSANTARA programme, on e submitted to CAMPUS FRANCE in France (in English) and one to RISTEKDIKTI in
Indonesia (in English)

Download the information : nusantara.pdf

Source: http://www.campusfrance.org/nusantara