ESF Research Conference
Nanocarbons 2011
6 - 11 September 2011
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The French Environment and Energy Management Agency is a public agency under the joint authority of the Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, the Ministry for Higher Education and Research, and the Ministry for Economy, Finance and Industry. Its mission is to encourage, supervise, coordinate, facilitate and undertake operations with the aim of protecting the environment and managing energy. The priority areas are energy, air, noise, transport, waste, polluted soil and sites, and environmental management. The Agency has 820 employees (including 359 engineers).
Founded in 1964, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) is a public scientific and technological institute which operates under the joint authority of the French Ministry of Health and French Ministry of Research.
As the only French public research institute to focus entirely on human health, in 2008 Inserm took on the responsibility for the strategic, scientific and operational coordination of biomedical research. This key role as coordinator comes naturally to Inserm thanks to the scientific quality of its teams and its ability to conduct translational research, from the laboratory to the patient’s bed.
CNRS is the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, or the French National Center for Scientific Research. It is a publicly funded research organization, under the authority of the French Ministry of Research, and is the largest of several French research organizations with the legal status of Public Scientific and Technological Institution (Etablissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique, or EPST, in French). Research at CNRS covers all the major fields of scientific research, and is organized into 6 research departments and two national institutes.
The Institute for Health Technologies is one of the 10 institutes constituting the French National Alliance for Life Sciences and Health (Aviesan). It coordinates research in the field of technologies that are essential to biomedical progress in both fundamental and clinical terms by adopting a transdisciplinary and translational approach, bringing into contact, upstream, researchers and engineers from very different domains (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, IT, electronics, nanotechnology, etc.) and downstream physicians and manufacturers.
