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
275 PRESS RELEASES