Government offers 4-year grants worth up to €1.5million

Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.

Researchers await detailed policies while applauding his defeat of Le Pen

Scientific community calls on voters not to support the candidate of the National Front

Threat of a far-right president galvanizes researchers to put politics first.

Popular leader will be forced to retire at 65 — but senior staff have other ideas.

Institute board snuffs out Christian Bréchot’s hopes for a second term.

The French National Center for Scientific Research is setting an example for supporting and tracking female scientists—but even with such pioneering efforts, progress is slow

Research gets 3.7% increase as government prepares for election year.

In France, the final text of a new law on Open Access has been adopted on June 29, 2016.

The institute's board was sent home after denying Christian Bréchot, who's almost 65, a second term

The mathematics panel of the French research agency says the low, standardized success rate for proposals doesn’t fit with its discipline.

Government scraps €134 million in reductions to four research agencies

Government decree takes €256 million out of research coffers this year

Thierry Mandon on cutting red tape, French researchers’ self-effacement and shaking up social science.

Thierry Mandon replaces Geneviève Fioraso, who stepped down in March for health reasons, leaving France without anyone heading the research brief for three months.

According to the review, some 10% of France's public research funds are awarded to specific projects on a competitive basis—the lowest figure among OECD's 34 member countries—compared with about 22% in Switzerland, about 38% in Germany, and 70% in South Korea.