CNRS reform will boost strategic advice

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The administrative council of France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is likely to recommend that there should be a wide-reaching regrouping of the around 40 sections that make up the organization's national committee where this is necessary to give a wider view of strategic matters. Some observers feel that conflict over the number of sections has deflected attention from the more urgent issue of establishing the committee's role in determining scientific strategy. The power of individual sections may also be reduced by reorganizing the councils that advise the seven CNRS departments.

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Interdisciplinary research 'being stifled'

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Interdisciplinary research is being stifled because of the the traditional organization of research bodies, according to a symposium of leading scientists and research administrators. The symposium heard that barriers need to be removed and a more sophisticated multidisciplinary approach is required to health and education. There was concern that grants for interdisciplinary research are assessed by discipline-based review committees rather than by interdisciplinary committees.

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