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ViewFrance news roundup: 20 May to 2 June

This week: return to campus, plant research alliance, and protecting wine from climate change

ViewResearch paves the path to recovery, universities tell Macron

French president announces return to campus and discusses higher education outlook during Élysée meeting

ViewCNRS founds maths institute to study Earth

Collaborative research location will use maths to interrogate the natural world

ViewFrance news roundup: 20-26 May

This week: Horizon Europe launch, health exchange with Taiwan and a regional research deal

ViewPlan launched to consolidate French research leadership

ANR funds 20 exploratory programmes to enhance “strategic priority fields”

ViewSciences Po tries to turn page with new leader

Art historian Laurence Dorléac paints picture of brighter future at hybrid university-école

ViewFrance news roundup 13-19 May

This week: Franco-German AI research, an international milk network and doctorates with disabilities.

ViewResearch agencies join minister’s push to ‘save 2,000 jobs’

French nuclear, computing and health groups join recovery plan aimed to boost public-private partnerships

ViewRemote working difficulties ‘unresolved’, French union warns

Researchers continue to suffer from poor conditions and uncertainty, Covid-19 inquiry finds

ViewFrance news roundup 6-12 May

This week: business spending growth, ANR picks social sciences head and auditors pitch humanities support

ViewFrance gives green light to 49 connected campuses

Decision means country has nearly 90 hubs for students in areas without local university

ViewVidal aims for full campus return this year

Minister promises French students will have complete access to universities, but admits to backup plan

ViewFrance news roundup 29 April to 5 May

This week: Probe at Total research centre, student numbers climb and state council warns Vidal

ViewReport describes ‘exceptional year’ for French universities

Minister hopes that funding boost will make up for 12 months of Covid-19 turmoil

ViewFrench funder starts institute in Tucson

CNRS and University of Arizona found research centre to address global challenges

ViewFrance news roundup: 22-28 April

This week: ANR success rates, technical university degrees and Cole re-confirmed as Pasteur head

ViewUnions demand ‘real emergency plan’ for French universities

Snesup-FSU calls for May Day demonstrations, as academics fear Covid-19 chaos in 2021

ViewCEA wins big as part of France Relaunch

French nuclear school to get funding boost under government’s recovery programme

ViewFrance news roundup: 15-21 April

This week: Inrae partners with Bologna, LabCom call opens and CNRS signs up to Vivatech

ViewCNRS teams up with Japan to study infinity

French laboratory in Tokyo will explore the impossibly small to the improbably large

ViewFrance news roundup: 1-14 April

This week: ANR keeps projects compliant, CEA launches hydrogen company and government picks space chief

ViewPublic Service Institute to replace elite civil servant school

Macron abolishes ENA in reform aimed at appeasing French protesters

ViewScience academies launch their agenda for G7 summit

Royal Society and partners urge action on health data, biodiversity and reducing greenhouse gases

ViewMinistry extends French postdoc and PhD research contracts

Most laboratories continued work during pandemic, but many projects need extra funding

ViewFrance joins global nuclear initiative

Country’s atomic research agency welcomes membership of international energy decarbonisation group

ViewFrance news roundup: 25-31 March

This week: the postal service’s AI push and a petition against the research minister

ViewCNRS charity’s first year deemed ‘intense and interesting’

French foundation’s leadership claim successful launch despite Covid-19 pandemic reducing activities

ViewUniversities dodge complete closure in France’s third lockdown

Research and education to remain partially open as Paris and 15 other regions shut doors

ViewFrance news roundup: 18-24 March

This week: Inrae picks associated partner, government boosts Cifre programme and Paris Santé announces leader

ViewNational Research Agency lays bare Covid-19 gender gap

Funding body warns of continued imbalance in scientific careers and funding success