French Capacities & Priorities in ICT : an overview

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1 French Capacities & Priorities in ICT : an overview Philippe CODOGNET Director, CNRS Office for North-Asia, Tokyo (also: director, Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics, Tokyo) slides realized with the help of: Evelyne Etchebehere, French Embassy in Tokyo, Anne Doucet, CNRS INS2I Helene Kirchner, INRIA Brigitte Plateau, Allistene Jean-Francois Abramatic, CVstene

2 THE FRENCH RESEARCH SYSTEM POLICY LEVEL AGENCIES / PROGRAMMES R&D EXECUTIVE LEVEL Other ministries Foundations/ other agencies Parliament Government Strategic research council (Prime Minister) CNES Spatial agency Ministry for Higher Education and Research ANR* National programming Alliances BPI** Regions NEW Research organisations Higher education institutions CNRS, CEA, Inserm, Inra, Inria, (Universities, "Grandes. écoles") * ANR: French National Research Agency ** BPI: Public Bank of Investment NEW Competitiveness clusters Enterprises European Research Area NEW High Council for Evaluation

3 National Strategy for Research (SNR) Published on March 5, 2015 Public consultation from April to May 2014 Working groups with members from Alliances, and domain experts (academic and industrial) Organized in several societal challenges

4 SNR - 10 Societal Challenges (coherent with the priorities of Horizon2020 program EU)

5 SNR - 10 Societal Challenges (coherent with the priorities of Horizon2020 program EU) Digital Society

6 Challenge 7 : Digital Society Computation of futures (modeling, simulation, computation, data) High Performance Computing (algorithms and hardware) Mathematical methods Networks (e.g. SDN, data farms, cloud computing) Big Data (analysis, visualization, indexation) Decision Making Safety of programs, validation and verification, cryptography Digital Mutation (new usages and societal changes) Cyber-physical systems Robotics Interfaces, virtual reality Privacy, resilience

7 ANR: National Agency for Research Supporting research through competitive call for projects 575 M budget in 2014 allocated through : Fellowships for individual researchers Funding for collaborative research projects LabCom: creating joint laboratories between SMEs and academics International call for projects : For fundamental and industrial research 7

8 Investment for the Future large investment program launched in 2010 : 47 billion including more than 22 billion targeted for research & higher education LABEX: Laboratory of Excellence EQUIPEX: Equipment of Excellence IDEX: Initiative of Excellence Examples of LABEX in ICT: Digiworlds (Paris): Digital world (Data, distributed software and architecture) PERSYVAL-lab (Grenoble): Pervasive Systems and Algorithms CIMI (Toulouse): International Center for Mathematics and Informatics UCN@Sophia: User-oriented network 8

9 Universities and Engineering Schools 74 Public universities (University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI), Orsay, University of Paris Sud, University of Toulouse, University of Rennes ) Coordinated by CPU (University Presidents Conference) 224 Engineering schools (Institut Mines-Télécom, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSEEIHT Toulouse, Enseirb MatMeca Bordeaux, Mines Nancy, Arts & Métiers ParisTech, INSA, Universities of Technology, Ecoles Centrales, Supélec, ESPCI) Select students with a competitive exam after 2 years of intensive preparatory classes Coordinated by CDEFI (French Engineering Schools Directors Conference) Cooperation/integration with Research Organizations (CNRS, INRIA, INSERM..) through joint labs 9

10 Example : joint Labs between CNRS and Universities (personnel)

11 Public Research Organizations Major operators in research landscape Investments for research infrastructures Also Universities

12 National Alliances for research coordination Created by French Government to gather research organizations to : Coordinate their strategy (by multi-year R&D programs) Advise government to define the main priorities for research to tackle societal challenges Life Sciences and Health (Aviesan) Coordination of Research for Energy (Ancre) Digital Sciences and Technologies (Allistene) Environmental Research (AllEnvi) Humanities and Social Sciences (Athena) 1

13 Research Alliance for ICT Founding Members Associate Members Objectives: Coordinate research operators in the ICT field around key scientific and technological priorities Build national programs for research and technological development Consolidate partnerships and synergies between public operators and create partnerships with industry Extend national programs and priorities in European and International initiatives Allistène covers a large applicative field : components, terminals, telecommunications, com puter science, robotics, multimedia, and the key applications areas such as healthcare, energy, transportation, production, ed ucation

14 (new) Organisation Allistene = cocor (coordination committee) + CERNA (committee for ethics) + CVSTENE (consortium for technology transfer) + pool of experts Working Groups: Infrastructure H2020 ( January 2015) Cybersecurity (April 2015) OpenScience (June 2015)

15 Working Group on Infrastuctures Mission: prepare for the Ministry of Research a roadmap for Very Large Research Infrastructures (Très Grandes Infrastructures de Recherche - TGIR) a report has been published (04/2015) Actions: help the COCOR to define the views of Allistene on current and future needs for research infrastructures Represent Allistene in coordination group at Ministry of Research for ICT infrastructures

16 TGIR Tres Grande Infrastructure de Recherche Investment into new research infrastructures In ITC, there is a need for medium-size infrastructures (1 to 20 M ) HPC : (Grid5000), France Grilles, PRACE (GENCI), equipex@meso Robotics: Robotex Vision, Visualization, Virtual Reality : Digiscope, Kinovis Future Internet : FIT Internet of Things, Ambient Intelligence : Amiqual4Home Sensor networks : sense city

17 Allistene Priorities for ICT Research main priorities for research in ICT to tackle societal challenges (industrial renewal, life quality, health and well being, environment, energy) : Basic research: from mathematics to computer science and nanoelectronics Advanced technologies in ICT including software technologies Sectorial priorities Education in ICT and by ICT Big data, HPC, simulations Interactions of physical, human and digital worlds Security of the digital society 17

18 18 CNRS : 10 Institutes

19 Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies INS2I Institut National des Sciences de l Informatique et leurs Interactions 19

20 INS2I : The Institute CNRS Staff & Engineers Faculty University Staff & Engineers CNRS Researchers 321 Researchers from other institutions 59 laboratories (mostly joint with universities) 6 International units 11 research networks 5317 permanent personnel 5437 Ph.D., post-docs and temporary personnel 20

21 21 INS2I s Labs

22 Scope All areas of Information Sciences and Technologies & digital systems Computer Science Control Theory Robotics Signal and image processing Telecommunications Systems on Chips Embedded systems 22

23 Role of INS2I Objectives: Basic research in ICT Research with strong societal and industrial impact Novel applications and usage of ICT Cross disciplinary projects. Main actions: To operate research laboratories mostly jointly with universities at national and international levels. To organize national research through networks and shared platforms To foster and conduct cross disciplinary research with Maths, Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Social Sciences, etc. 23

24 Strategic priorities Digital Sciences Algorithms and programming Security and reliable systems Modelling, simulation, systems optimisation Reasoning, decision, learning, databases, data mining Telecommunications, networking, future Internet, grids Human-systems interactions (image, robotics) Societal challenges Biology / Health, well being Environment, transport, energy, sustainable development Humanities and social sciences 24

25 MODELLING & SIMULATION HIGH PERFORMANCE & CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS & CONNECTED OBJECTS SAFETY & RELIABILITY ROBOTICS PROGRAMMING INTERACTIONS, INTERFACES & USAGES DATA PROCESSING National Research Institute for Computer Science & Automation 25

26 INRIA Key figures 4,500 People (60 % paid by Inria) 8 Research Centers 38 European Research Council Grants 80 Associated teams throughout the world 4,500 Scientific publications 3,500 Scientists 1,200 PhD students 250 Post-Doctoral 400 R&D engineers 170 Project-teams 270 Active patents 120 Spin-offs 2 Investment Funds 26

27 INRIA Research centers Inria Paris-Rocquencourt (1967) Inria Lille - Nord Europe (2008) Inria Saclay Ile-de-France (2008) Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique (1980) Nantes Strasbourg Inria Nancy Grand Est (1986) Lyon Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (2008) Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes (1992) Center Branch Pau Montpellier Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée (1983) 27

28 5 Main research domains 1 2 Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation Algorithmics, Programming, S oftware and Architecture Numerical analysis, stochastic methods, optimization and learning, control theory Cryptography, semantics, proofs, v erification, embedded systems, compilation, security and privacy Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing Perception, Cognition, Interactio n Computational Life and Environment Sciences Networks and telecoms, distributed services, HPC, distributed programming Knowledge representation, interaction and visualisation, natural language, robotics Observation and modeling, biomaths, bio-info, computational medecine, neurosciences 28

29 Applications SOCIO-ECONOMIC TECHNOLOGICAL 29

30 International Cooperation

31 CNRS Cooperation Tools PICS (Mature Cooperation Projects) 3 years, not renewable LIA (International Associated Lab) 4 years, renewable once GDRI (International Teams Network) 4 years, renewable once UMI (International Joint Lab) 4 years, renewable twice 31

32 International units UMI Mexico Montréal Orsay BELARUS Turin Madrid Tel Aviv Rabat Prague EGYPT Chennai Harbin Pékin Hanoi Singapour Tokyo LIA UMI and 12 LIA Porto Alegre Buenos Aires Rosario 32

33 International Cooperation at INRIA 6 INRIA International Laboratories Associate Teams Annual call for joint research projects between an Inria project-team and a research team abroad Supports for 3 years Mobility Programs / Researcher Exchanges INRIA International Chairs Invited Researchers Internships

34 International Partnerships JLESC EPFL-Inria EuroMediterranée 3+3 JFLI HOSCAR Inria International Lab Other strategic partnership Also 80 on-going Associate Teams worldwide in 2015 (236 since 2002)

35 Technology Transfer

36 From Research to Innovation CNRS has joint laboratories with industries (e.g. with ST Microelectronics, with Thales, ) 1000 start-ups created from CNRS labs since % still active INRIA has joint labs with industries (e.g. with Microsoft, in Saclay) and also innovation labs & Labcoms (joint teams) 120 start-ups created from INRIA 75% still active or bought up Consortium for technology transfer (CVT) within each Alliance : 5 Regional technology transfer structures (SATT) : 14

37 Valorization of research : 5 CVT and 14 SATT

38 Carnot institutes network : dedicated to partenarial research with industry 34 Carnot institutes Network gathering 15 % of the French public research staff, and more than 50 % of the research financed by companies researchers, PhD students, billion annual budget 38

39 French competitiveness cluster policy : fostering public-private R&D collaborations Major industrial policy initiative in the past decade 71 competitiveness clusters Companies Public research centres Higher education institutions Involving international collaboration Key driver: Innovation & local development 1200 collaborative R&D projects since b of global R&D budget for 2 b of public support

40 Main Competitiveness clusters in ICT Systematic (Embedded technologies, human-computer interactions, software, electronic, ) in Paris Cap Digital (Video-games, design, culture & media, robotics and communicating objects, open-source software) in Paris Communicating and Secured Solutions (Traceability, connectivity, mobility and identity) between Nice and Marseille Image and Networks (Network optimization, medical imaging, visual effects) in Bretagne Imaginove (video games, movies, audiovisual, multi-media) in Rhône-Alpes (Vileurbanne, next to Lyon) 40

41 Questions?