India-France Innovation Roadmap 2030
Jun 19, 2026
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India-France Innovation Roadmap 2030
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The India-France Innovation Roadmap 2030 marks a major shift in the bilateral relationship, expanding it from traditional defense procurement into a Special Global Strategic Partnership centered on deep tech, digital sovereignty, and industrial resilience.
- Trusted AI to be the central pillar of the India–France innovation partnership.
- Collaboration on risk-based AI governance for frontier and generative AI models.
- Special focus on child safety online, including privacy-preserving age verification and safety-by-design AI systems.
- Promotion of privacy-preserving data-sharing frameworks.
- India's Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) identified as a key model for consent-based data sharing.
- France aims to host 30,000 Indian students by 2030.
- Expansion of the Mutual Recognition of Qualifications (MRQ) framework signed in 2018.
- MRQ to cover more academic disciplines, regulated professions and emerging technology sectors.
- Encouragement of dual-degree programmes, researcher exchanges and doctoral co-supervision.
- CEFIPRA (Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research) to remain the flagship institution for bilateral scientific cooperation.
- Strengthening of the India-France Innovation Network (IFIN) to connect startups, investors, researchers and universities.
- Possibility of creating an Indo-French Steering Committee for governance of IFIN.
- Continued support to the Franco-Indian Campus in Life Sciences for Health (FIC-LSH) for biomedical research and health innovation.
- Promotion of collaboration through Station-F, FRIND-X and startup ecosystems.
- Establishment of a Franco-Indian Campus for Aeronautics Training and Careers in Kanpur in partnership with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
- Launch of the India–France InnoXchange Bridge, a startup and innovation corridor between the two countries.
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