Key figures
Budget forecast for 2012
Personnel
34,530 employees of which 25,630 are CNRS tenured employees:
- 11,450 researchers
- 14,180 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
- Nearly 1,100 research units (90 % 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 European and International Associated Laboratories (LEA/LIA)
- 112 European and International Research Groups (GDRE/GDRI)
- 30 International Joint Units (UMI)
- 11 CNRS offices abroad (Beijing, Brussels, Hanoi, Malta, Moscow, New Dehli, Pretoria, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Tokyo, Washington)
Industrial relations (2010)
- 25 framework agreements with major international industrial groups
- 4,382 main patents, 495 new patents filed in 2010
- 864 licenses and other financially remunerating active acts
- 593 companies
created with CNRS between 1999 and 2010
(January 2012)
