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The European Research Area
Europe, a concept sometimes deemed hackneyed in its contemporary use, sometimes perceived as an innovation, particularly in the scientific sectors. Research training was built on exchanges and expatriation for training purposes experienced an unprecedented boom. The aura of the best centres attracted researchers ready to face the greatest challenges, languages served as a support, revolutions followed, and research established itself.
Nowadays, it is the purpose of collaboration that is evolving : generating together what tomorrow will produce, weaving a unifying web for a better understanding. The teams from the CNRS, as part of European programmes, are designing, developing, building the chemistry that will make tomorrow’s daily life. Better still, the synergies that are being established are based on the complementary of research and supporting excellence is becoming the raison d’être of projects like ACENET, METACHEM, ERA-Instruments or the upcoming Euro-Chemistry.
The European Research Area was not built in one day. It results from the synthesis of collaborations that include the maze of large-scale facilities. It is the fruit of this old legacy of dangerous liaisons. A certain alchemy, which shall be no chimera, bringing together the diversity of approaches, allows Europe to continue its slow but steady progress to further transcend borders, as it should do.
Institut de chimie du CNRS, Europe
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