Report of Franco‐German Experts on Global Security /Civil Security (GS/CS) Research

Abstract

As knowledge-based economies, France and Germany attach particular importance to the areas of education, research and innovation. Innovation is the mainspring of prosperity and quality of life1. Franco-German (F-G) cooperation in education, research and innovation is an important driving force of activities on the national level of both countries as well as in Europe. Joint research has been encouraged and supported by the respective governments in France and in Germany, which has proved very successful since the inception of the cooperation in 2002. In this report, the F-G cooperation is highlighted for the area of GS/CS. The report consists of contributions of a high-level group (HLG) of French and German experts which was appointed by their respective ministries. The goal is to discuss merits, but also problems of the past F-G program, and to propose ideas to enhance the future of F-G cooperation by identifying challenging research topics in the area of GS/CS