France at APAIE: a key occasion to spice up its attractiveness within the Asia-Pacific area
With 26 greater training establishments represented, the France pavilion (stand C21) will deliver collectively over 70 French representatives on the 2026 version of the APAIE Exhibition and Convention. A delegation made up of representatives from French embassies in China, South Korea, Pakistan, and Vietnam, and from the French workplace in Taipei, can even accompany the establishments to help in establishing partnerships and cooperation frameworks with their Asian counterparts.
The rising participation of French greater training establishments on the APAIE convention and exhibition underscores the strategic significance of the Asia-Pacific area to France. This area stays a key hub of worldwide scholar mobility, famous for its rigorous educational requirements and growing selectivity. Our problem is to satisfy these expectations whereas fostering sustainable collaborative partnerships.
Donatienne Hissard – Director-Normal, Campus France
“Asia-Pacific Partnerships for the International Good”
The theme of APAIE 2026, “Asia-Pacific Partnerships for the International Good” focuses on the vital function of worldwide greater training partnerships, notably within the Asia-Pacific area, to collaboratively handle world challenges resembling geopolitical tensions, digital transformation, local weather change, and well being crises.
Strategically positioned within the coronary heart of the Asia-Pacific area, on the crossroads of worldwide educational exchanges, inside a multilingual atmosphere, Hong Kong stands out as a vital hyperlink between Asia and the remainder of the world. This distinctive mixture makes town a premier location for bringing collectively the world’s main gamers in greater training and analysis.
For French establishments, this is a useful alternative to construct deep partnerships with essentially the most modern educational gamers and actively contribute to the dynamics and evolution of upper training on a global scale. This occasion allows them to strengthen their visibility in a area of strategic significance to France, acknowledged for its financial, technological, and scientific energy. The Asia-Pacific area can also be a high-growth supply of worldwide college students and a serious expertise pool for French greater training.
Key figures: Asia-Pacific – France
- 3.3 million college students from the Asia-Pacific area pursued levels worldwide in response to the most recent UNESCO figures (2023), making it the main area in worldwide scholar mobility
- In 2024-2025, France welcomed 56,700 college students from the Asia-Pacific area (+3% over one 12 months), representing 13% of the whole variety of worldwide college students in French greater training.
- Pupil mobility from India to France has seen a big surge (+17% over one 12 months), aligning with the bold aims of the Franco-Indian roadmap for scholar mobility: India rose to eleventh place amongst international locations of origin in 2025 (up from thirteenth in 2024) with 9,100 college students.
- Regardless of a slight decline (-3%) in comparison with the earlier 12 months, China stays the third largest supply of worldwide college students in France with greater than 26,000 college students, whereas Vietnam recorded a rise of +4% over the identical interval, with the variety of Vietnamese college students in France reaching a complete of 5,600.
Established in 2004 in Seoul (South Korea), APAIE has turn out to be the biggest commerce honest devoted to greater training within the Asia-Pacific area. The APAIE 2026 Convention and Exhibition is anticipating over 2,500 individuals from greater than 65 international locations. These figures underscore the expansion of APAIE, which pulls an growing variety of key gamers within the internationalization of upper training, strengthening Hong Kong’s repute as each a neighborhood and world hub for instructional cooperation.
French greater training establishments on the France Pavilion
Universities
- Compiègne College of Expertise
- Catholic College of Lille
- Catholic College of the West (UCO)
- Paris-East Créteil College
- Paris-Saclay College
- Paris Panthéon-Assas College
Enterprise Colleges
- EDHEC Enterprise College
- EM Normandie Enterprise College
- ESCP Enterprise College
- ESSCA College of Administration
- IAE FRANCE – College Colleges of Administration
- ICN Enterprise College
- Paris College of Enterprise
- SCBS (South Champagne Enterprise College) – Y SCHOOLS
- SKEMA Enterprise College
- TBS Schooling
Language Colleges
- CAVILAM – Alliance française
Engineering Colleges
- Centrale Lyon
- Efrei Engineering College of Digital Applied sciences
- Institut Mines-Télécom
- ECE – Engineering College
