INRIA - Partenariats européens

The pursuit of a strong commitment in the construction and development of the European Research Area remains a major priority of INRIA’s policy:

As soon as 1989, INRIA was one of the three founder members of ERCIM. This organisation, one of its kind in Europe, gathers research institutes in the field of ICST from eighteen European countries.
As for the previous Framework programmes, the 6th FP was a major stake for INRIA which still mobilizes numerous research teams on this issue. All in all, INRIA will have participated in about 120 actions mainly in the IST field. It also developed its collaborations with numerous academic or industrial partners especially making use of the instruments at hand such as networks of excellence and integrated projects. INRIA is already deeply involved in the first calls of the FP7. Namely, the institute is participating in 35 proposals under the 3 first calls of the ICT theme.
The Institute pursues its efforts beyond the FP to develop its relations with large European industrial groups, namely in participating in the Eureka and ITEA programmes or in establishing direct partnership. The creation of the joint INRIA, Philips and Thomson AIR&D virtual laboratory in the field of ambient intelligence is one example of the initiatives taken with European industry.
On the occasion of the "Rendez-vous de l'INRIA à Bruxelles", the institute signed the European Charter for Researchers, in December 2006.
INRIA also established fruitful bilateral collaborations with universities or research centres in most of the European countries, some of them becoming an INRIA “Associate Team”. Furthermore, INRIA encourages young researchers to tie new collaborations by answering the calls for proposals initiated by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( PHC programmes, ECO-NET programme).
Building a European research area relies first of all on people exchange and mobility between the research centres, notably by recruiting foreigners or training through research doctoral or postdoctoral students. Hence, during the 2005 recruiting campaign, INRIA hired 6 researchers, citizens of other European countries, out of 25 tenure positions. At the end of 2004, among the 949 doctoral students hosted in the research teams, 74 were foreigners, citizens of European countries, i.e 23% of the foreign doctoral students.
In all major countries, the regions are assuming a growing importance in international collaborations in particular through cross-border exchanges with neighbouring regions. INRIA Research centres such as INRIA Lille - Europe, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, INRIA Grenoble -Rhône-Alpes and INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée. are concerned with this type of collaborations.

INEDIT 56: special issue on Europe
Le Rendez-vous de l'INRIA - Brussels

INRIA and Europe