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CNRS AIL: Associated International laboratory

AIL is a CNRS tool for initiating and running international collaborations on a well identified although broad research domain. It has been designed to increase the degree of collaborations between two countries, to create a wider researcher basis for future joint projects and to enforce the visibility of the joint venture.

It is a formal network of laboratories between 2 countries with a simple but well defined structure and organization including budget allocation provision, co-direction and steering committee managment, scientific evaluation and protection of intellectual property rights. It relies on nation to nation or organization to organization general research agreements. Based on a 4 years renewable term it has been tailored to the need of bilateral collaborations but can easily be extended to multi-lateral and multi-institutional programs.

Each host laboratory provides the foreign researchers with the necessary support, very much as it would do for a domestic visiting researcher. It is open to all researchers regardless of its original laboratory being or not an AIL host laboratory.

Specific support for tenure researcher long term visits (from 1 month up to 1 year) and for hiring PhD students (3 years) and post-docs (2 years) are provided by both countries. The most sensitive issue of international collaboration namely “Project Continuity” is thus addressed through space and time overlap of expertise and through the sustained scientific direction and evaluation.

It has proven to be a quite unique and successful framework for many fields and in many countries. More than 15 AIL are running in the world on different topics like agriculture, genomics, gamma ray, catalyses, molecular engineering …

More specificly in Asia, several AIL have already been set i.e in Japan on MEMS with the university of Tokyo LIMMS (1987) on humanoid robotics (2002) JRL with AIST Tsukuba and on Particle Physics with KEK. Beyond their scientific achievements and the visibility given to the programs, they have played a major role in improving the understanding between the communities and the internationalization of both institutions.

-- DenisPerretGallix - 21 Jul 2006