------------------------- Modernizing and simplifying --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- the organization CNRS has a long-standing partnership with institutes of higher education and research within numerous joint research units. It seeks to simplify the management of these research structures so as to allow them to focus on what they do best: research. T continuously since the first associated laboratories were created A novel approachhe partnership between CNRS and universities is expanding in 1966. Today over 90% of research units linked to CNRS are joint The first initiative was the administrative dialog. This new process units, and partnership agreements are signed with virtually all higher for the allocation of internal resources was initiated in 2010 and is education and research institutes. Yet these partnerships, based on based on France’s Organic Law on Laws of Finance (LOLF), passed a common scientific policy, run into limitations in the field. ‘Coordi- in 2001 to secure more transparent budget information in public nation and management of units often get bogged down by multiple administration. This represents a real revolution for field operations. supervisory authorities as well as by heterogeneous information sys- ‘Our goals are threefold,’ notes Thibaut Sartre. ‘First, we wish to tems and financial and accounting tools,’ stresses Thibaut Sartre, ensure greater transparency in resource allocation. Second, we hope Director of the Financial Strategy, Real Estate, and Modernization to raise unit directors’ awareness of the scientific objectives, defi- Department (DSFIM). Hence CNRS’s efforts, since 2010, to simplify ned during the administrative dialog, towards which these resources both the allocation and management of resources. should be used. And third, we seek to allocate global funding in order 56 A year at CNRS 2011
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