n°28I quarterlyI january 2013 CNRS Networks |Horizons 33 w tRANSoCEANIk: ASSESSING thE IMPACt ofColoNIAlISM 03 transoceanik research at the 2012 The first French-Australian International Associated festival forpacific Laboratory (LIA) in the humanities and social sciences was arts, which brings set up in January 2012. TransOceanik’s1 aim is to compare the together 33 countries ChinA social, cultural, and political creative every 4 years. responses of different ethnic and 03 regional groups from the tropical belt indiA MAlAysiA to the various types of discrimination COMMONS they face as a result of colonialism. The LIA brings together 13 French IMEDIA anthropologists from the LAS,2 an Canberra interdisciplinary team from James Cook I /W ERGJ Melbourne University (JCU), as well as 20 PhD Auckland b students and postdocs. It is co-directed SOL by LAS professorial researcher Barbara © S Glowczewski and professor Ton Otto from the Cairns Institute (JCU). 01.Interactive research, mapping, and creative agency in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and x the Atlantic. ROU 02.Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale (CNRS / E EHESS / Collège de France). © G. L 01 artist’s rendition New Zealand are both closely involved in Zealand in terms of international of the futuresKa the EU-funded Framework Programmes co-publications, of which 50% involve dishes inaustralia. (FP). Forexample, four research platform CNRS laboratories. 02 the far northern section of thegreat projects have been developed with the Barrierreef, as seen two countries as part of the bilateral CNRSCoMMIttED to thE REGIoN from space. science and technology cooperation Emblematic of the close cooperation be- (BILAT) agreements initiated to tween CNRS and Australia, a specific promote partnerships between the EU agreement was signed in 2011 for the es- RODUCTIONS and various countries. CNRS is involved tablishment of a center of excellence in in the most recent of these collaborations, the Earth sciences at the Macquarie y P a strategic exchange network called University in New South Wales. It brings STRONOM FRIENZ (Facilitating Research and together teams from CNRS and Innovation Cooperation between Europe Australian universities, as well as from A URNE and New Zealand). Canada, the US, Germany, and China. b WIN Through the EU Seventh Framework SevenCNRS structuring initiatives /TDP/DRAO/S Programme (FP7), France has become a are also underway with the two countries, close partner with both countries, play- including the “Biodiversity of Coral Reef” RGANISATION ing an active role in 80 of the 120 projects International Research Network and the with Australia and 20 of the 30 programs recently-founded International A O set up in partnership with New Zealand. Associated Laboratory “TransOceanik” k © S CNRS is participating in 25 European (see box). Five fruitful cooperation proj- top-level native and foreign students. It also includes the Crown projects involving Australia, especially in ects are currently active, four with Research Institutes, eight centers of excellence of world repute. the information and communication Australia, (three in biomedicine and one The island nation has developed internationally-recognized sciences and technologies (ICST), but in cryptography), and one with New expertise in fields like climate change, Antarctica research, ice also in health, the environment, and Zealand (in plant biodiversity). Other and rock drilling, and paleoclimatology. astronomy. It is also part of a network of operations will follow in 2013, confirm- Drawing strength from their differences, Australia and excellence with the University of ing CNRS’s commitment and capacity to Auckland in New Zealand. forge international scientific partner- 02 Moreover, the two countries have ships, whatever the distance. initiated bilateral support programs 01.As rated by Jiao Tong University, Shanghai. called Hubert Curien Partnerships2 02.followed by Fasic (France-Australia ScienceFast (French Australian Science and Technology), with France to facilitate researcher Innovation Collaboration) since 2012 for Australia; mobility. Between 2009 and 2012, some are managed in France by the Ministry of ForeignDumont d’Urville for New Zealand. These programs 40 projects associating France and Affairs with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Australia or New Zealand involved ISS CNRS, mainly in ICST. contactInformatIon: FROM These collaborations have made DercI,paris. EN k France the sixth most important scien- > chantal.khan-malek@cnrs-dir.frhan-MalekkChantal TA / NASA tific partner of Australia and New ©
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