![[SINGAPORE] The CNRS opens CNRS@Create Ltd, its first overseas subsidiary](IMG/arton401.png?1561963050 "[SINGAPORE] The CNRS opens CNRS@Create Ltd, its first overseas subsidiary")
With the success of its large scientific presence in Singapore1, the CNRS established CNRS@CREATE Ltd. to manage new research and innovation collaborations between the CNRS and Singapore. Dominique Baillargeat has been appointed as Director for CNRS@CREATE Ltd., CNRS’ first overseas subsidiary.
CREATE was established by the National Research Foundation in 2006 to increase the vibrancy and diversity of Singapore’s R&D ecosystem. By bringing together international research talent to work on projects of important scientific, societal and economic importance, CREATE represents a unique model for research collaboration. Today, researchers from 9 institutions – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California Berkeley (UCB), Cambridge University, ETH Zurich, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) – are co-located in CREATE, and collaborate with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on 14 interdisciplinary research programmes. The CNRS is the first research-performing organization to join the CREATE campus.
The CNRS aims to implement its first major research project by 2021. Between now and then, the CNRS is seeking to submit bilateral projects in fields such as energy, synthetic biology, and other topics.
The creation in Singapore of the CNRS’s first overseas subsidiary is also driven by a desire to transfer technologies. The research programmes of CNRS@CREATE Ltd. could be conducted in partnership with French industrial actors present in Singapore.
An agile and responsive interdisciplinary plan, CNRS@CREATE is at the heart of the CNRS’s new international strategy.
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