CNRS Tool Kit


International Research Laboratory (IRL)

The International Research Laboratory (IRL) is a international cooperation tool aimed at structuring highly-localised international research collaboration. It includes facilities that bring together scientists from various research units, for a duration of five years.

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International Research Project (IRP)

The International Research Project (IRP) is an international cooperation tool dedicated to strengthening research partnerships between laboratories from foreign countries and CNRS laboratories, for a duration of five years. They strengthen previously-established collaboration through short- and medium-term scientific exchange. The International Research Projects are aimed at organising working meetings or seminars, developing joint research activity including field research, and supervising students. The French and foreign teams concerned must have already shown their capacity to collaborate (for example through one or more joint publications).

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International Research Network (IRN)

The International Research Network (IRN) is a cooperation tool dedicated to structuring international research networks. The purpose of this tool is to structure an international scientific community around a common theme or research infrastructure. It promotes the organisation of international workshops and seminars, as well as thematic schools organised by the network partners in France and abroad. It brings together, for a duration of five years, researchers from one or more French laboratories, including at least one from the CNRS, as well as from several international partner laboratories.

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International Emerging Action (IEA)

The International Emerging Action (IEA) is an international cooperation tool dedicated to the exploration of new subjects and partnerships on the international stage. International Emerging Actions are PI-to-PI projects whose purpose is to explore new fields of research and international partnerships through: short-term mobility of scientists, the organisation of working meetings, and the initiation of early-stage joint research works for shared scientific projects. These actions have a duration of two years.

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