France-Singapore Year of Innovation 2018

On the occasion of the State Visit by then-French President François Hollande to Singapore in March 2017, Singapore and France agreed to designate 2018 as the Year of Innovation (YOI) in a Joint Declaration on Innovation. Recognising that innovation drives the transformation of our economies and societies, and that both countries have much to learn from each other’s experience, Singapore and France agreed to intensify cooperation in innovation.