The bilateral cooperation in research between France and Malaysia has started more than 30 years ago. Based on strong relations and mutual respect, it is recognised to be at high level and high quality.

Joint research mainly cover different domains such us sustainable environment, sustainable chemistry, economy and management of tropical forest, biodiversity, engineering, material physics, social sciences, computer sciences, health.

The cooperation is structured through two International Associated Laboratories, one international Group of Research, one platform of research, one Institute and many others agreement between labs and groups of researchers from both countries.
A new partnership of research between France and Malaysia, PHC Hibiscus, has been approved at the end of 2018. The first call For project has been launched in February 2019.

The CUFM support the exchange and sharing of knowledge and expertise between France and Malaysia through its program « French scholar to Malaysia » and « Malaysian Scholar to France »

France and Malaysia have agreed to create a joint funding program for the development of innovative and high-level joint research projects. This “matching grant” program is called Hubert Curien Partnership France Malaysia Hibiscus – PHC Hibiscus.

This partnership between the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Malaysia and the French Government aims to support research projects carried out jointly by Malaysian and French teams. These co-operations will develop synergies between the research communities of the two countries in order to create structured and sustainable high standards research networks recognized at the European and international level.

The schedule for the 1st Franco-Malaysian PHC HIBISCUS Call for proposals 2019 is the following :

Launch of the call for proposals : 1st February 2019
Deadline for application : 15th March 2019
Dissemination of results: end of June 2019
Beginning of projects: from July 2019

Two applications must be submitted for the joint project to be eligible:

The French application must be submitted to Campus France at https://www.campusfrance.org/fr/hibiscus
and the Malaysian application file must be submitted to Malaysia Greater Research Network Systems (MyGRANTS) at http://mygrants.gov.my/main.php

More information and precisions on PHC Hibiscus are available for each group on their respective website for application.