CNRS PRESENTATION“JOIN JAPAN-EU COLLABORATION,FIND THE FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE”
JAPAN-EU SYMPOSIUM
5 JUNE 2019

CNRS - Europe of Research &International Cooperation Division (DERCI) Tokyo Office for North-East Asia

1CNRS:A LEADING EUROPEAN RESEARCH PERFORMING INSTITUTION• A 32,000-strong workforce, incl. 24,600 permanent staff•

11 200 researchers•

13 400 engineers, technicians and administrative staff• 2017 budget : 3,5 b€ (2,7 b€ State subsidy + 780 k€ self-generated income)• Over 1 000 research units and 100 service units•

95% of research carried out in partnership with universities, national, European andinternational Institutes, and private companies, within joint research units (UMR)• More than 50 000 publications/year (Scopus), incl. 60% co-signed with a foreign laboratory
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2CNRS IN RANKINGS•

1st hosting institution of ERC Advanced Grants in 2019 (15)
1st hosting inst. of ERC Grants from 2007 when the program was launched (536, incl 21 in 2018)•

2nd in the world 2018 Nature Index
Article count ranking•

8th world most innovative public research institution
Source : 2017 Reuters’ Top 25 Global Innovative Institutions•22 Nobel Prize laureates, 12 Fields Medal award winners and 1 Turing Award recipient

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CNRS MAJOR PARTNERS IN THE WORLDP4

A STRONG INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE42018

P55SIX PERMANENT RESEARCH UNITS IN JAPANOne in Humanities and Social Sciences andFive in Natural and Exact Sciences (micromecatronics, computer science, robotics, materials science)
ELyTMaX, Engineering & Science Lyon Tohoku
joint laboratory, with Tohoku University in Sendai
Joint Robotics Laboratory, with AIST at Tsukuba
Laboratory for Innovative Key Materials &Structures, with St Gobain K.K., at NIMS – TsukubaPartnership with industry
French Institute of Japanese Studies at Maison
Franco-Japonaise, with Fr. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Laboratory of Integrated Micro-Mechatronic
Systems, with U-Tokyo – 25th anniversary in 2020
Opening to EU partnership (INCOLAB)
Japan-France Laboratory for Informatics, with the
University of Tokyo, Keio University & Nat. Institute ofInformatics

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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERING TOOLS

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A new typology ofinternational tools

International
Emerging Actions(IEA)

Bottom-up exploration
toolInternational
Research Networks(IRN)

InternationalResearch
Programmes(IRP)

Strengthening a collaboration

International ResearchLaboratories(IRL)

Strategic actions with a strong
local presenceP77KEY STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH JSPS SINCE 1973

Frontiers of Science Program:
Joint Multidisciplinary Symposium every two years, gathering young Frenchand Japanese Researchers (next one in Kyoto in 2020)
CNRS serves as a proxy in France for several JSPS mobility schemes:• JSPS Summer Program• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships Short Term

• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships Standard.
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8CNRS IS PARTNER OF•

Initiated by EU and JST, now multinational joint funding research program•On-going call on SMART WATER MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY•

Deadline : 14 June 2019

•Selected projects will be funded for a 3-year period. The projects are expected to have mobility andnetworking dimension, in addition to the core research component. Each applying consortium should
consist of at least
3 partners, including one from Japan and two from two different European countries.

•CNRS hosts the Joint Call Secretariat in collaboration with JST

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Jacques Maleval
Director, CNRS Tokyo Office for North-East Asia
jacques.maleval@cnrs.fr