On June, 2013 Ministers of External Affairs of Ukraine and France signed Roadmap for  Ukrainian and French Relationships with a special attention to scientific cooperation development. According to this document, Ukraine and France promote cooperation between scientific and research institutes in academic mobility, in particular within European educational programmes; in double scientific supervision during writing doctoral thesis; in signing agreements about joint educational programmes. 

Today Sumy State University cooperates with a range of French universities within grant programmes EU TEMPUS, Erasmus Mundus and FP7. SSU has experience in organization  of training programme and internship of students, postgraduate students, research and teaching staff in universities of France: Université de Poitiers (Poitiers), Université de Lorraine (Nancy), Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6 (Paris).

Today Sumy State University has signed 3 agreements about international cooperation with the following French partners:

• Radio France International
• Ukrainian Association of Graduates of French Educational Programs
• University of Poitiers