1. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 1 l CNRS - MI MISSION for INTERDISCIPLINARITY March 2012

2. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 2 l CNRS - MI 1 I The new scene of French research. 2 I The organisation of the MI 3 I The actions 4 I The actions under way.

3. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 3 l CNRS - MI 1 I The new scene of French research The agencies ANR and AERES The thematical alliances Equipex, Labex, Idex,… The LRU Autonomy of universities The investments of the future Ancre, Aviesan, AIIEnvi, Allistene, Athena The ecosystem of innovation

4. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 4 l CNRS - MI 2 I Organisation of the MI 2.1 I A steering committee for interdisciplinarity Direction of MI + 10 DAS II + ISCC + MRCT+DIRCOM+DIRE Set-up and operational follow-up of interdisciplinary tools and actions Then Validation by the College of Directors of the CNRS 2.2 I Under instruction, an expert committee 20 members : experienced in interdisciplinarity Scientists from CNRS, universities, members of Alliances, industrials Interdisciplinary strategic outlook Interdisciplinary prospective: definition of scientific axes, opening to training… Follow-up and evaluation of interdisciplinary actions

5. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 5 l CNRS - MI 3 I The actions 3.1 I The grand challenges. 3.2 I Network interdisciplinarity 3.3 I Site interdisciplinarity 3.4 I The other actions Opening of an interdisciplinary « ideas box » (open to the entire community) http://www.cnrs.fr/dgds/interdisciplinarite/boite-a-idees.php

6. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 6 l CNRS - MI 3.1 I The grand challenges Long term research actions (> 5 years) and high-risk Choice of units/teams engaged Annual progress evaluation The steering committee examines the exploratory themes and makes propositions for: Promoting and backing actions on the interfaces Answering a need, an objective… Favoring the emergence of new disciplinary fields Potential partners : the major research organizations, the industries, the universities…

7. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 7 l CNRS - MI 3.2 I Network interdisciplinarity Interdisciplinary research networks: RTP (Genre…), GDR, AIR… MRCT : network of resources and technological competences New technological challenges New resource mutualizing Innovation Executive education… PEPS : Exploratory projects

8. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 8 l CNRS - MI 3.3 I Site interdisciplinarity (1/2) By reactive project calls of PEPS-type to favor relations with local communities, help at the start up of high-risk projects… Evolution of Project Hotels emergence of young talents (ERC), hosting of high-level personalities around a scientific projet …

9. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 9 l CNRS - MI Inter-institute laboratories (inter-section) Definition of a laboratory « model » Propositions for running and managing 3.3 I Site interdisciplinarity (2/2) The technological platforms Interdisciplinary training in doctoral schools Organization of interdisciplinary projects around an equipment, … Potential partners : universities, regions, other organizations…

10. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 10 l CNRS - MI 3.4 I The other actions Recruitment - promotions CID monitored and coordinated by the MI Proposition of interdisciplinary posts within the disciplinary sections: for recruitment for promotions Action in concertation with the AERES aimed at the evaluation of interdisciplinarity Evaluation Interdisciplinarity and international Opening of actions to UMI/UMIFRE

11. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 11 l CNRS - MI 4 I Actions under way NEEDS – Nuclear energy, environment, waste, society. MASTODONS: Very large data masses DEFI-SENS, Perceptive insufficiencies and personalized substitution Synthetic Biology Nano - G3N : Graphene, New paradigms, Nanomedecine, Nanometrology 4.1 I Grand challenges

12. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 12 l CNRS - MI NEEDS : Nuclear energy, environment, waste, society. 8 axes Nuclear Systems (CNRS, CEA, EDF, IRSN) Treatment and conditioning of radioactive waste (CNRS, ANDRA, EDF, CEA, AREVA) Treatment/recycling of nuclear fuels (CNRS, CEA, AREVA, EDF) Characterization and modeling of geological storage (CNRS, CEA, ANDRA, EDF, IRSN) Impact of nuclear activities on the environment (CNRS, CEA, EDF, IRSN)) Resources: mines, processes, economics (CNRS, CEA, AREVA) Nuclear, risk and society (CNRS) Materials for nuclear energy (CNRS, CEA, EDF, AREVA)

13. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 13 l CNRS - MI DEFI-SENS, Perceptive insufficiencies and personalized substitution 6 axes Specialized Axes : 1.Touch and haptic 2.Sight and hearing 3.Smell and taste Transversal axes 1.Equilibrium and motivity 2.Reinforced and substituted perception (biological sensors – captors) 3.The human, the social, the economy and perceptive substitution

14. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 14 l CNRS - MI MASTODONS Management, analysis and processing of large data masses (measurements, text, image, sound,...) 7 axes 1.Storage and management of big data (for example, on the Cloud), security, confidentiality. 2.Intensive computing on large volumes of data, data-driven parallelism. 3.Visualization of large data masses. 4.Knowledge extraction, data mining and machine learning. 5.Problems of ownership, rights of use, rights to forget. 6.Preservation/archiving of data for future generations. 7.Exploitation of large masses of data linked to scientific databases, social networks, very large literary corpuses, and others.

15. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 15 l CNRS - MI Nano - G3N : Graphene, New paradigms, Nanomedicine, Nanometrology Based on existing structures of CNRS : CNano, RENATECH and Proximity Centers 4 themes to develop 1.Graphene and beyond : replacement of Si ; other materials eg. silicenes 2.New paradigms of information processing: energy efficiency, manufacturing at very large scale and low cost, respect of environmental laws 3.Nanomedicine : targeting the administration of medicines, theragnostics for personalized treatments, gene therapy 4. Nanometrology : measurement, control during elaboration, usage, waste during destruction of products at end of life-cycle, impacts on health and the environment, legislation 5. Methods and stakes

16. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 16 l CNRS - MI PEPS competitive call (first backing) Bio, math, info in partnership with INSERM and INRIA SASLELX : backing of X-Ray free electron lasers Ecological inequalities and environmental justice Law and economics of the environment and of biodiversity Networks RTP Genre, interdisciplinary GDR, MRCT… 4 I Actions 4.2 I Network interdisciplinarity

17. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 17 l CNRS - MI IDEX Paris Sciences Lettres PSL * Synthetic Biology (Marc Fontecave, Ludovic Jullien) P roject Hotels Laboratoire Joliot- Curie (LJC, Lyon ) Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire (IRI, Villeneuve dAscq ) Institut européen de chimie et biologie (IECB, Bordeaux) Institut des technologies avancées en sciences du Vivant (ITAV, Toulouse ) Evolving: IPANEMA ( Saclay ), IRCICA (Lille ),… 4.3I Site interdisciplinarity (1) 4 I Actions under way

18. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 18 l CNRS - MI PEPS on SITE IDEX of Bordeaux, Strasbourg, PSL* Montpellier Infectology – computer science and mathematical methods for studying epidemics and their evolution DSR presents the project Participation of the IDEX or PRES in the project 4.3I Actions under way on site (2) 4 I Actions under way

19. Intervenant l mentions légales. P. 19 l CNRS - MI Consultation with other organizations on interdisciplinarity (Inserm, ANR…) UMI – collaborative work with Georgiatech and UMIFRE (Tokyo) ERC SYNERGY 2012 : accompaniment Interdisciplinary Laboratories Continuation of the definition of an interdisciplinary laboratory – Scientometry – P Jensen INP – IXXI AERES – Evaluation of interdisciplinarity 4.4I Other actions 4 I Actions under way