Organisations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
english name: French National Center for Scientific Research
abbreviation: CNRS
type: public research body
location: Paris, France
WWW: www.cnrs.fr
description
CNRS is a publicly funded research organization, under the authority of the French Ministry of Research, and is the largest of several French research organizations with the legal status of Public Institution of Scientific and Technological Value (Etablissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique, or EPST, in French).
Research at CNRS covers all the major fields of scientific research, and is organized into 8 research departments and two national institutes.
The Office of European and International Relations of the CNRS provides support for cooperation. Details available at:
www.drei.cnrs.fr/rub4/CNRS.en/Echanges
Structures for international projects
- GDRI/International Research Networks
- A true research network, the GDRI brings together laboratories from at least two countries in a multiple and flexible partnership around shared areas of study. Its funding is intended to promote researcher mobility, information exchange, and the organization of seminars and workshops.
- LIA/International Associated Laboratories
- An LIA is a “laboratory without walls” which associates one or two CNRS teams with one or two foreign laboratories for a renewable period of four years. Based on a jointly defined project, they pool their resources and receive additional support in the form of equipment, funded research trips, or positions for visiting researchers.
- PAI/Programs for Integrated Action
- An “integrated action” is a research project undertaken by two teams, one French and the other foreign. Financial support, which comes from the Ministries of Research and of Foreign Affairs in the case of France, allows the researchers considerable mobility between the two countries in order to implement the project.
- PICS/International Programs for Scientific Cooperation
- From one to three years in duration, a PICS grows out of an already firmly established collaboration between one or more CNRS laboratories and a foreign partner (through joint publications in particular). It makes funding available for research trips, meetings, and small equipment purchases.
