Summary

    In 2015, IRD set out a new European strategy aimed at positioning the Institute as a key player in Research for Development at European level. This strategy is being implemented as part of its 2016-2020 Objectives and Performance Contract (COP).

     

    In 2015, IRD set out a new European strategy aimed at positioning the Institute as a key player in Research for Development at European level. This strategy is being implemented as part of its 2016-2020 Objectives and Performance Contract (COP).

    Four years on, the consolidated results show real progress. IRD has increased its visibility and influence in Brussels, and more IRD researchers are involved in European programming and calls for projects. This has led to greater financial resources to conduct development research projects in the labs.

    IRD actively participates in the European programmes' calls for projects, primarily the Horizon 2020 Research-Innovation programme and the EuropeAid programme for Cooperation and Development.

    As part of the EU Research and Innovation programme (H2020), IRD has invested a great deal in global topics that call for cooperation with developing countries, such as climate change, depletion of natural resources, risks of pandemics, migration issues.

    Under the EU Development Programme (EuropeAid), IRD has placed research components in various development projects (nutrition, migration, health). These have generated a highly positive response from European delegations in the countries concerned.

    And finally, IRD can reap the benefits of obtaining an ERC consolidatorin 2019.

    Key figures

    • IRD has secured

      59

      Horizon 2020 projects and 20 EuropeAid projects since 2014

    • 103

      European projects submitted - 33 retained, representing €7.2 million in total for IRD

    IRD has secured

    59

    103

    Horizon 2020 projects and 20 EuropeAid projects since 2014

    European projects submitted - 33 retained, representing €7.2 million in total for IRD

    Key items in 2019

    Exemple d’un fruit d’Annonaceae (Duguetia peruviana, Equateur)
    23/12/19
    Forêts tropicales humides : un financement ERC pour le chercheur IRD Thomas Couvreur
    Le chercheur IRD Thomas Couvreur (UMR DIADE) vient d’obtenir un ERC Consolidator Grant : cette bourse d’excellence du Conseil européen de la recherche est destinée “à des chercheurs ayant un parcours scientifique prometteur et qui souhaitent consolider leur équipe de recherche”.
    JED 2019
    18/06/19
    L’IRD participe aux Journées européennes du développement
    La 13ème édition des Journées européennes du développement (JED) se tiendra les 18 et 19 Juin 2019 à Bruxelles sous le thème phare des inégalités - Adressing Inequalities : building a world which leaves no one behind.
    drapeau Européen
    28/03/19
    IRD commits to implement the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R)
    IRD has recently developed its Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) in order to improve its practices and to align itself with the recommendations of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (C&C).

    Other key items

    The MAD project (H2020-RISE) aims to create an international network of interaction between researchers from Europe, Mexico, Argentina and Australia working on two topics: the reproductive biology of plants and the development of innovative solutions for sustainable agriculture (total budget €1 million, DIADE UMR).

    In 2019, IRD secured 4 new research projects under the Europe-Africa Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP2). These projects aim to develop diagnostic tools, vaccines, and public health protocols against tropical infectious diseases (Tuberculosis, Malaria, Ebola).

    And in the future

    In 2020, the last year of the current multi-annual EU budget, the Institute will continue its internal efforts to keep increasing the number of European projects with teams in the Global South, while also pursuing its incentive actions for ERC grants.

    Respecting the renewal of European programmes for 2021-2027 (Horizon EUROPE and the continuation of EuropeAid), IRD will step up its advocacy for "more research with developing countries".