french initiatives

Multidisciplinary laboratories already exist in France and yet few researchers are aware of this!

By way of example, we should mention the ENS in Lyon (Laboratoire Joliot Curie), the Mines de Paris (Chaire Modélisation Prospective co-directed by Nadia Maïzi), the CNRS (Centre de Théorie et Modélisation de la Biodiversité in Moulis), or the Collège de France (CIRB). These “project centres” welcome visiting research teams whose projects have been approved by an external scientific committee. The role of these centres is to develop, through close partnership with neighbouring laboratories, new experimental and conceptual approaches to address questions of multidisciplinary interest. They thus set up research and training programmes, organise working groups, and are able to welcome visiting researchers.