2017 consolidated IRD’s positive trajectory. Our two governing ministries have recognised this trajectory through the performance contract (COP) adopted in spring. An operational breakdown of the Strategic Direction Plan (POS) adopted in July 2016, this document specifies the Institute’s scientific strategy, particularly around ten seminal, interdisciplinary partnership programmes (PSIPs). In it, IRD consolidates its position in the international development agenda and its critical and constructive approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations, for 2030. It places innovation and research promotion at the heart of its missions. Finally, it confirms its policy for deconcentration and the strengthening of the management functions of its head office.
including 833 researchers
and 1180 engineers and technicians
Jean-Paul Moatti, CEO of IRD, has been nominated for the group of 15 international experts.
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On 14 February 2018, the European Commission officially gave its green light to the Infravec2 project dedicated to fighting mosquito-borne diseases.
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Collecting ice cores from the glaciers most exposed to climate change and storing them in Antarctica for future generations of scientists: this is the objective of ICE MEMORY, an international programme to preserve the memory of glaciers.
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The NOPOOR project, coordinated by IRD since 2012, is the European Union's largest research programme dedicated to the fight against poverty in developing countries.
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The ANRS MOBIDIP trial was conducted simultaneously in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The trial demonstrates the effectiveness of a dual therapy for patients with multiple HIV mutations.
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Eliminating malaria requires ongoing coordinated efforts at global level (“global war”), but also targeted combat (“local guerrillas”) in local contexts that favour continued transmission.
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From 6 to 16 September 2017, China hosted the 13th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
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On 1 November 2017, Jean-Paul Moatti, CEO of IRD, named Elisabeth Barbier Deputy Director General of the Institute.
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A study co-ordinated by an international consortium bringing together French (IRD), Indian and Chinese researchers and involving many researchers from laboratories in the North and South, has for the first time made it possible to sequence the genome of millet.
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In the context of the African Union-European Union Summit held in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) on 29 and 30 November, African researchers launched the “2017 Abidjan Appeal in favour of science and technology”.
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