2017 in figures

RESOURCES

A budget of €3.5 BILLION

1,010 research units

133 service units

31,612 STAFF MEMBERS including 43% women

11,179 researchers

13,349 engineers and technicians

7,084 contractual employees

296 researchers recruited

334 engineers and technicians recruited

INTERNATIONAL

36 INTERNATIONAL JOINT UNITS

188  EUROPEANS PROJECTS financed

58 of wich  FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC)

INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIPS

143 public/private JOINT RESEARCH STRUCTURES

21 FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS with listed companies

More than 1,400 STARTUPS

5TH LARGEST PATENT FILTER in France (source INPI)

The CNRS ranks 8th IN THOMSON REUTER’S LIST of the World’s 25 Most Innovative Research Institutions

RESEARCH

The CNRS ranks 2nd in the Nature Index et Scimago Institution Ranking (natureindex.com et Scopus, Scimago, 2017)

51,800 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

of wich 60% ARE CO-SIGNED WITH A FOREIGN LABORATORY (Scopus, 2017)

COMMUNICATION

398k FOLLOWERS ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube/Zeste de science)

Nearly 3 MILLION PAGE VIEWS on CNRSlejournal.fr an news.cnrs.fr

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