Key figures

Budget forecast for 2013

• 3.415 billion Euros

Personnel

• 33,679 employees of which 25,505 are CNRS tenured employees:
  • 11,415 researchers
  • 14,090 engineers and support staff

Organization

• 10 institutes (3 of which have the status of national institutes)
• 19 regional offices, ensuring decentralized direct management of laboratories
• 1,032 research units (93 % are joint research laboratories with universities and industry)

International relations

• 50 exchange agreements (with over 40 countries)
• 5,000 foreign visiting scientists (PhD students, post-docs and visiting researchers)
• 1,714 permanent foreign researchers of whom 1205 come from Europe
• 295 permanent foreign engineers and technicians
• 331 International Programs for Scientific Cooperation (PICS)
• 127 International Associated Laboratories (LEA/LIA)
• 112 International Research Groups (GDRE/GDRI)
• 30 International Joint Units (UMI)
• 11 CNRS offices abroad (Beijing, Brussels, Hanoï, Malta, Moscow, New Dehli, Pretoria, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Tokyo, Washington)

Industrial relations

• 24 framework agreements with major international industrial groups
• 4,477 main patents, 611 new patents filed in 2011
• 891 licenses and other financially remunerating active acts
• 670 companies created with CNRS between 1999 and 2011

 (May 2012)