The promotion and emphasis on scientific and technological research in both countries has allowed for numerous platforms for collaboration and interaction in the sciences at the highest levels.
Long established and successful scientific partnerships at all levels (from researcher-to-researcher to formal agreements between institutes and joint laboratories) have flourished between the two countries.
India and France have traditionally collaborated in fundamental research in the natural sciences, particularly in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and life sciences.
New areas of cooperation are fundamental and applied research in medicine, environment, sustainability and climate change, nanotechnologies and aerospace.
India and France have set up a number of joint structures of research, collaborative projects and networks, and two research departments of the CNRS, the Institut Français de Pondichéry and the Centre de Sciences Humaines Delhi are based in India.
