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The Acfas was founded in 1923 as the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (French-Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science). Its name was changed in 2001 to the Association francophone pour le savoir. Despite the name change, Acfas retained the acronym by which it has become known.
CIRAD was founded in 1984 from nine tropical research institutes, most dating back to the 1940s. The institutes were primarily non-profit-making organizations, each working to promote a specific production chain. They joined forces in 1958 to form a liaison committee specializing in the French overseas regions, before merging in 1970 to form the Groupement d'étude et de recherche pour le ...
The IGN runs four laboratories to research geographical information acquisition, production, distribution and applications. It also runs its own school to teach techniques to its staff and other students: École nationale des sciences géographiques (English: National School of Geographical Sciences) or ENSG.
The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃stity nasjɔnal de sjɑ̃s(z‿)aplike də tuluz]), INSA Toulouse; English: National Institute of Applied Science) is a French grande école of engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research. Situated in Toulouse, this ...
The Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃stity nasjɔnal də ʁəʃɛʁʃ ɑ̃ sjɑ̃s e tɛknɔlɔʒi puʁ lɑ̃viʁɔnmɑ̃ e laɡʁikyltyʁ], IRSTEA), formerly known as Cemagref, was a public research institute in France focusing on land management issues, such as water resources and agricultural technology.
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, pronounced [sɑ̃tʁ nasjɔnal də la ʁəʃɛʁʃ sjɑ̃tifik], CNRS) is the French state research organisation [2] and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
The École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (English: School and Observatory for Earth Sciences) is a French institution under the supervisory authority of the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS-INSU (National Center for Scientific Research, National Institute of Science of Universe) in charge of education, research, observation in Earth Science and its diffusion.
Cairn.info is a French-language web portal, founded in 2005, containing scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences and recently scientific, technical, and medical sciences. Much of the collection is in French, but it also includes an English-language international interface to facilitate use by non-francophones.