Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Address:
3 rue Michel Ange
75015 Paris
France
48.847636 2.264015

What is CNRS?

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) is a government-funded research organization, under the administrative authority of France's Ministry of Research.

Missions

Founded in 1939 by governmental decree, CNRS has the following missions:

To evaluate and carry out all research capable of advancing knowledge and bringing social, cultural, and economic benefits for society.
To contribute to the application and promotion of research results.
To develop scientific information.
To support research training.
To participate in the analysis of the national and international scientific climate and its potential for evolution in order to develop a national policy.

CNRS research fields

As the largest fundamental research organization in Europe, CNRS carried out research in all fields of knowledge, through its seven institutes:

Institute of Biological Sciences (INSB)
Institute of Chemistry (INC)
Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE)
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS)
Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies (INS2I)
Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS)
Institute of Physics (INP)

and three national institutes:

National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INSMI)
National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3)
National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU)

Interdisciplinary research

CNRS encourages collaboration between specialists from different disciplines in particular with the university thus opening up new fields of enquiry to meet social and economic needs. CNRS has developed interdisciplinary programs which bring together various CNRS departments as well as other research institutions and industry. Interdisciplinary research is undertaken in the following domains: