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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)
