Number of researchers complain of low wages

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You have been appointed on 20 January. How do you see your mission at the head of the first French research facility

The President of the CNRS is here to keep France a search for quality and ambitious, by recruiting top researchers on the good themes. But needs to ensure that careers are more diverse and more flexible without taboo aspects of the articles. I'm here to pacify the CNRS and ensure that everyone can do his job without raise theological disputes.

What will be the place of the CNRS in the Act on the autonomy of the universities

Universities want a dominating CNRS which dictates their science policy, and I understand it. We have 15 in France campus where the emergence of a genuine scientific site policy is possible. This does not mean that the CNRS will disappear. The University Presidents that I meet tell me they want a CNRS strategist to help get their science policy by implementing the devices that they have not necessarily as an interdisciplinary and international development. To build universities in the 21st century, we need an omnidisciplinaire CNRS. It is a very important issue. We can help identify strengths between two disciplines where needed ways. CNRS can have an extremely positive action in the construction of interdisciplinarity. It is reasonable to advance the idea of scientific stresses of the UMR (mixed research units, Editor's note) without extraordinary reforms.

The agreement with the University stone-and-Marie-Curie is part of this logic.

It is a step in this direction. But a fully autonomous University does not mean independent. From soon as it receives public subsidies, this means that you can hear the voice of the State.

What objective set for researchers

They must settle major international conferences and publicize their work. When a researcher is a productive stage, he must be given the best working conditions. And when it needs recharging or go to education on the basis of voluntary, should give him the ability not to cut the bridges. Stop to think that research is above all and that there are ancillary tasks such as education.

What is the place of recovery

I wish that the CNRS is involved in technology transfer companies to put in place and be a work of popularization of upgrading to researchers. For example by saying: "You have made a discovery that could be useful to society." Find out more and it will help you. "It is through persuasion and education that we finish by major ideological barriers. In France, we live a little in recalcitrant adaptation.

Number of researchers complain of low wages.

II there has never been so much money in research. The grids are evolving in the right direction and promotions will be significant this year. We now have devices such as the Commission which will enable us to make return of brilliant French researchers who are expatriates or attract high calibre. This is what we are going to do. Most often this will be in the new sites of academic excellence.

What judgment wear on research alliances

They are places of collaboration. They must remain functional and does not become structural. These are places where there is agreement to tag the SNRI national strategy for research and innovation, Editor's note. As long as it remains there, I am extremely positive.

What will be the impact of the great loan

I put in place a cell large loan that we are present in the debate and the answers to the calls for tender. The goal is not that part of the loan landed into the coffers of the CNRS. It is intended to finance the large campus of excellence where our teams and mixed units we co-pilots.

Your own resources will fall with the loss of several drugs, such as TAXOTERE, once discovered by Pierre Potier...

Our own resources originate not only operating licences and are rather expanding. The research is of good quality, and that translates many transfers of know-how to companies.