Our research

Research must deliver benefit. It must benefit society. It should help humanity to progress. It must share knowledge and innovate. In this way, we can push the boundaries of our understanding. To achieve this, the CNRS has chosen to pursue research that leverages every field, in pursuit of sustainable progress, to deliver technological, scientific or societal advances.

1100 laboratories across the whole of France
80 laboratories outside France all around the world
28,000 scientists of 90 different nationalities

Research at the CNRS

Research for the benefit of society

10 discoveries that have changed the world

The Higgs boson

Albert Einstein

Micropeptides

Sodium-ion battery

Bruniquel stalagmites

Antivirus software

Artificial brain

Terrorism

Optics

Comets

Scientific Integrity at the CNRS

Scientific integrity is one of the founding principles of the CNRS. A guarantee of research credibility that builds trust with its public, scientific integrity is based on a system of rules and values, delivered by the Mission for Scientific Integrity (MIS) and the CNRS’s Scientific Integrity Officer.

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At the CNRS, the values of deontology, scientific integrity, and ethics are fundamental and constitute the foundation of our responsibility in terms of research and innovation.

Learn about the responsible research

 

Ethics officer

The role of Ethics Officer derives from the law dated April 20th 2016 on ethics and the rights and obligations of civil servants and its implementing decree in April 2017. The Ethics Officer is legally responsible for responding to requests for advice from civil servants on ethics and more specifically on integrity, probity, neutrality, secularity, professional secrecy, the independence of researchers, hierarchical obedience, occupying more than one job and conflicts of interest.

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