Institutional highlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Institutions, the French National Institute for Demographic Studies and CNRS. It seeks to make------------------------------------------- French National Research Alliance for the Humanities & Social Sciences was founded in First general meeting of the Athena alliance ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The June 2010 by the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Conference of Higher Education the research strategies of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHS) institutions more consistent. Alain Fuchs, President of CNRS, has chaired it for the past two years. Thematic workshops held during the Alliance’s first general meeting on October 27, 2011 reviewed actions towards SHS structuring, internationalization, technology transfer, research indicators and infrastructures. Interdisciplinary groups were also created to strengthen ties between SHS and other research fields such as health, the environment, new technologies, and energy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three new offices abroad In 2011, CNRS opened three new representative offices -------------------------------------------------------------------------- in India, Malta, and South Africa. The New Delhi office will further strengthen CNRS’s close cooperation with India and oversee the creation of new joint research structures. The office in Malta aims to promote Among the Top 100 collaboration between scientists across Mediterranean Global Innovators countries while the Pretoria-based office, also home to the Research Institute for Development (IRD), is to CNRS is among the world’s 100 most pursue the activities of the office previously located in innovative companies and organizations Johannesburg. according to the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovators. The ranking includes 11 French entries (three research organizations and eight industrial groups), Simplifying laboratory placing France third, just behind the United management States and Japan. ------------------------------------------- The March 2011 agreement between CNRS, the Conference of University Presidents, and the Universities and Higher- Education Institutions Mutualization Agency (AMUE) is intended to simplify the management of research units jointly supervised by several organizations. It was extended in December 2011 to cover shared financial management, description of laboratories’ scientific activities, and issuance of requests for resources. A new home page for the CNRS website The CNRS website had a face lift during the ----------------------------------- summer of 2011 in order to make content more easily accessible to users, promote scientific advances, and showcase CNRS news. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 A year at CNRS 2011 -------------
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