International cooperation
In 2015, Inria demonstrated the extent of its scientific reach outside France by consolidating its existing strategic cooperation links throughout the world, and establishing new partnerships with international leaders in computer science.
In 2015, Inria demonstrated the extent of its scientific reach outside France by consolidating its existing strategic cooperation links throughout the world, and establishing new partnerships with international leaders in computer science.
In 2015, the Inria Chile Centre in Santiago began a new phase in its work, focusing on the transfer of technology and expertise.
In South and Central America, Inria and the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil have started to work together. Inria has also jointly organised the first workshop with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The European High Performance Computing for Energy project (HPC4E), successor to the HOSCAR project, is highlighting the new strategy of the Institute in using European funding to support international cooperation. Inria has supported eighteen associate teams (collaborations between Inria research teams and international universities and institutes) in Chile and Brazil.
In North America, Inria has signed an agreement with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). The Institute also organised the Fifth BIS Workshop, bringing together Inria researchers and their colleagues and partners in the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford. The Joint Laboratory for Exascale Computing (JLESC) took over from the Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing (JLPC). In total, 45 of the 80 associate teams are involved in collaborations with USA or Canadian universities (respectively 37 and 8).
As part of the Inria International Chairs programme, the Institute research teams welcomed three international researchers; Doctor Deborah Agarwal from the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Professor Dennis Shasha from the New York University, and Professor José Leon from the Central University of Venezuela.
In Africa, Inria signed an agreement renewing the Inria International Laboratory for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (LIRIMA), establishing the first two associate teams collaborating with African laboratories.
In Asia, Inria has prepared an agreement with the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, and has strengthened its partnerships in Japan, organising the first Franco-Japanese seminar on cyber-security.
In Europe, Inria has signed a collaboration agreement with the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), establishing the sixth Inria International Laboratory and organising the first joint EPFL-Inria workshop. The Institute has achieved an outstanding success rate in its applications for the very competitive European Research Council grants, with seven new ERC grants (including three Proof of Concept grants) being awarded to the researchers of its project teams. However, Inria also continues to be committed to other growth initiatives, including the public – private European Big Data partnership with active participation in the BDVA association.
In total, Inria is participating in 52 actions within the Horizon 2020 programme, with 22 new projects taken on in 2015. These include the Next Generation Techno-social and Legal Encryption Access and Privacy project (NEXTLEAP), coordinated by the Prosecco research team.
In addition, Inria is a partner in KIC EIT Health, set up in 2015 in response to a call from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to establish a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the field of health and active aging.
Finally, Inria researchers have also been involved in the work of the IPCC ahead of the COP 21 negotiations.