Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS CNRS and AFRICA Chamira Lessigny Europe of Research and International Cooperation Office, Derci CampusFrance, 8 novembre 2016
CNRS : AN ESSENTIAL RESEARCH CONTRIBUTOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY I CNRS is a public Research Performing Organization attached to the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research I CNRS main mission: carry out and evaluate all research likely to generate knowledge and bring scientific, social, cultural, and economic benefits for society I Most of CNRS laboratories are being joint units with Universities, Engineering Schools, or other research institutions I CNRS operates (jointly with other institutions) very large-scale research Infrastructures 2
CNRS Key Figures I A 33,000-strong workforce, including : 24,900 permanent personnel, 11,200 researchers and 13,700 engineers, technicians and administrative staff I Budget 2015 > 3.3 billion (of which 700 million are CNRS-generated income) I Over 1,100 research and service units: 60% of the French research workforce are in a CNRS associated structure 3
CNRS Key Figures and Ranking I 43,000 publications each year, Global Scimago Institutions Rankings 2015 on average; 2007-11 Nature Index 2015 (qualitative) and Scimago Institutions Rankings Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators (for the 5 th year) Thomson Reuters most innovative RPO French patent filer (390) Webometrics (2 nd for Europe) I 21 Nobel prize laureates and 12 Fields Medal winners Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Prix Nobel 2016 de chimie 4
THE TEN CNRS INSTITUTES ( DIVISIONS) Advancing the frontiers Interdisciplinarity Internationalization Innovation CNRS in society 5
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CNRS RESEARCH COOPERATIONS IN AFRICA 8 4 HUMANITIES CHEMISTRY ECOLOGY & ENVIRONNEMENT EARTH SCIENCE & ASTRONOMY UMIFRE ENGINEERING (& Computer science) BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS 7
Joint International Unit: Environment, Health and Societies (UMIESS) created in 2009 in Sub-Saharan Africa at the initiative of CNRS, UCAD (Senegal), UGB (Senegal,) CNRST (Burkina Faso) and USTTB (Mali) multidisciplinary approach: Environmental, Biological and medical, Human and social Sciences creates a vertical structure North/South but also a horizontal structure between the three countries of the subregion. Observatoire Homme Milieu Téssékéré based in Senegal, created in 2009 multidisciplinary laboratory at the initiative of CNRS and Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar. botanists, plant ecology specialists, doctors, anthropologists and geographers are studying this recovering environment four fields of research: water and soil resources, biodiversity, social systems and health. in this way, the impact of reforestation can be measured in a wide range of scales like microbiology, ecosystems or sociology. Monitoring of the project of creating a tree-filled area across the Sahel : the Great Green Wall
Atmospheric Research in Southern Africa and Indian Ocean, ARSAIO Climate: a necessary collaborative approach Established in 2014 by the CNRS and the NRF Consists of an atmospheric environment observatory network together with research teams Partners: France : Lab. de l Atmosphère et des Cyclones (UMR8105, La Réunion), Lab. Atmosphère, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS, Paris), Lab. d aérologie (UMR5560 Toulouse), Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, (UMR7583Créteil) South Africa : Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), University of Kwazulu Natal (UKZN) Durban, North West University (NWU) Potchefstrom, South Africa Air Weather Service (SAWS) Cape Point, University of Pretoria (UP), SANSAS Space Science Hermanus The GDRI ARSAIO project enables to: Learn from one another by allowing research exchange of expert reports about high precision measurements; Regularly compare information from different measurement sites; Bilaterally coordinate annual organization of research workshops and summer schools,
South Africa - France - a third francophone African Country TRILATERAL COOPERATION South Africa asked France to be a go-between South Africa and African French-speaking countries for STI partnership During a high Level visit of IRD-CIRAD-CNRS in SA in 2015, the idea of a trilateral cooperation emerged: France / South Africa / a French-speaking African country 3 targeted countries identified for starting this trilateral cooperation: Senegal, Madagascar, Algeria Focus on 3 topics : Engineering sciences, Marine sciences & halieutics, Climate change & Environment A workshop involving representatives from CNRS, CIRAD and IRD will be held in Dec. 2016 in Pretoria 10
Thank you for your attention! Chamira.Lessigny@cnrs-dir.fr 11