The Start in France program aims to promote the French deeptech ecosystem and attract international talent in research and innovation.
To this end, through an annual call for applications, the program selects US-based researchers, regardless of nationality, with a disruptive innovation project; La Synapse offers its laureates a two-stage training program:
- a virtual preparation seminar, consisting of workshops organized by French innovation experts, to familiarize laureates with the specific features of the French deeptech ecosystem and its academic and administrative particularities;
- an immersion in France in an innovative ecosystem, during which the laureate entrepreneurs take part in workshops, one-on-one meetings with scientific stakeholders, entrepreneurial actors, and key players in economic development, innovation, attractiveness, and international relations relevant to their field of activity, as well as networking events. The aim of this immersion is to draw up, with the support of local players, a roadmap for a potential move to France, in order to add value to their disruptive innovation project through the creation of a startup or collaboration with a research laboratory.
