--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On June 20, 2012, Geneviève Fioraso, the French Minister for Higher Education and Research, handed the CNRS Medal of Innovation 6 Shortly after taking office, Geneviève Fioraso, the French Minister for Higher Education and Research, launched a series of national conferences that recently led to a new law. CNRS played an important role in this process. How would you sum up the outcome? The conferences were very successful among the French scientific community; all parties were given the opportunity to express their views. More than three hundred contributions were made by CNRS staff alone. The draft law that is being discussed in the French Parliament includes many conclusions of these joint deliberations. It calls for the higher education and research landscape to be decompartmentalized and simplified. The bill also advocates pooling resources between universities, schools, and regional research organizations. This is exactly in line with our policy, which led to the finalization, on December 4, 2012, of our first site agreement with our partners in Bordeaux, reflecting the continued trust between our organization and higher education institutions. While on the subject of site agreements: how will they evolve over the coming months? The strategy implemented by CNRS for the past three years has put our relationship with local partners on the right track, and we intend to pursue it. Today this extensive groundwork results in site agreements designed to identify and formalize a joint scientific policy. After Bordeaux, other agreements will be finalized this year with Clermont Ferrand, Nancy and Toulouse. The proposed law introduces the concept of “site contracts”, where CNRS’s role will be all the more decisive as our organization, through its site agreements, initiated this type of cooperation. Beyond the scientific realm, our collaboration with universities covers concrete collaborations such as drawing up Unit Director job descriptions, and simplifying the management of joint research units with workgroups involving CPU2, AMUE3, CNRS, and others in the future. In short, we are heading in the right direction. to physicist Alain Benoît, pharmacist Patrick Couvreur, and biologist José-Alain Sahel. A year at CNRS 2012
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