CHIST-ERA stands for European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in ICST ERA-NET, and is looking for highly innovative and multidisciplinary projects in ICST, new ideas and original solutions, involving interdisciplinary skills in order to strengthen broader communities in the merging of their understanding and their questioning.

Jacqueline Lecourtier, Director General of the French National Research Agency and João Sentieiro, President of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, signed on Monday, 23rd May 2011 in Paris a Memorandum of Understanding aiming at strengthening the French-Portuguese cooperation in the field of scientific research, as well as the launch of joint...

Jacqueline Lecourtier, Director General of the French National Research Agency welcomed the new director of the National Science Foundation, Prof. Subra Suresh, on May 16th, 2011.

The meeting was the opportunity to review the cooperation between the ANR and the NSF.