Question 18049 — research and innovation

Summary

Mr. Pierre Pribetich questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs on the plan to absorb the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) into the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and on its consequences for scientific diplomacy and French development aid policy. Committed to a particularly constrained schedule and without sufficient consultation with staff, their representatives and stakeholders, this project raises serious concerns about the preservation of the missions, scientific independence and international partnerships which make the specificity and influence of the IRD. For 80 years, the institute has constituted a unique instrument of the French scientific presence in the world, by developing long-term partnerships and a real co-production of knowledge with local institutions and researchers. This project comes at a time when the Government's budgetary choices reflect the decline in French ambition in terms of public development assistance, as evidenced in particular by the drop in resources devoted to it and the constraints weighing on the French Development Agency. The simultaneous weakening of French instruments of scientific cooperation and development will weaken again France's capacity to maintain a policy of influence and long-term partnership. He therefore asks what place the Government intends to give to research for development in its foreign policy and in its scientific diplomacy strategy. He also asks him how he intends to guarantee that the possible reorganization of the IRD will preserve its resources, its scientific autonomy, its locations and its international partnerships.

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