Funding for scientific research at the University of Poitiers

The University of Poitiers has nearly 30,000 students, 65,438+0,450 teaching and research personnel and 900 engineers (engineers), administrators (managers), technicians (technicians) and service personnel (Ouvriersde service). The latter four categories of personnel are collectively referred to as IATOS. There are also some temporary teaching researchers (Attach é temporaire d 'enseassignment et de recherche), referred to as ATER for short. Among the students, there are about 900 doctoral students, 600 master students and 3000 international students from 1 10 countries and nationalities.

The total annual expenditure on education in Poitiers University is nearly 200 million euros (excluding the salaries of faculty members who are national civil servants), most of which comes from the government's education appropriation. There is no more overall information about the detailed source of school funds, but we have some information about the funds of the signal, image and communication laboratory of the school of science, from which we can get a glimpse.

The Signal, Image and Communication Laboratory (SIC Laboratory for short) is affiliated to the College of Science and CNRS Institute of Communication, Optical Fiber and Microwave, and its headquarters is in limoge. SIC laboratory was established in 1996, and its research fields include graphic informatics, signal and image processing, and wireless communication. By the end of 20 13, there were 1 researcher (researcher of French National Academy of Sciences) and 30 teaching researchers (6 professors and 23 lecturers), 33 doctoral students, 3 IATOS staff and ATER staff.

The fund income of SIC Laboratory from 200/KLOC-0 to 2004 is as follows:

(1) appropriation of French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research (ten thousand IATOS): year 20012002, 2003, 2004, total operating expenses 2.02.02.42.48, equipment expenses1.0/kloc.

(2) Appropriation of French National Academy of Sciences (ten thousand euros): 5438+0 in 2006, 2002, 2003 and 2004, total operating expenses 1 .01.01.44.8 Salary:/kloc-0.

(3) Appropriation of Boitu Xia Lang Special Zone (ten thousand euros): 5438 in 2006+0 in 2002, 2003 and 2004, total equipment cost1.40.40.52.3 (4) National and local joint planning project support (CPER) from 2000 to 2006, 90,000 yuan from French National Academy of Sciences.

Total income (ten thousand euros): 5438+0 in 2006, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

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(National Fund) Expenditure of 23.5 17 2.5 43 SIC Laboratory in 2004 is as follows:

Scholarship and salary: 6.5438+0.3 million euros; Travel expenses: 5 1 0,000 euros; Office supplies: 20,000 euros; Tax: 1.7 million euros; Property depreciation: 500,000 euros; Literature: 300,000 euros. As Poitiers University is a comprehensive university with 65,438+03 colleges and 65,438+0 advanced engineering colleges, its research work covers six research fields.

These six research areas are:

(1) engineering science (physics, mathematics, machinery and information technology);

(2) chemistry;

(3) Earth science;

(4) Biology, health, agronomy and ecology;

(5) Judicial science;

(6) Humanities, economy and social sciences.

There are 2255 researchers in University of Poitiers, including 800 teaching researchers, 120 researchers from French National Academy of Sciences, 295 ITAOS researchers, 900 doctoral students, 40 postdoctoral researchers and 40 visiting scholars at home and abroad.

The basic scientific research unit of University of Poitiers is Laboratoires, which is equivalent to the research institute in China University. The laboratory has 1 director and 1 research secretary. University of Poitiers * * * has 50 laboratories, 22 of which are affiliated to the French National Academy of Sciences, and 4 laboratories are jointly managed by University of Poitiers and EnSMA. The specific settings are as follows:

(1) engineering science (physics, mathematics, machinery and information technology, SP2MI): automation and industrial information technology laboratory, combustion and explosion laboratory, mathematics and application laboratory, solid mechanics laboratory, material mechanics and physics research institute, machinery manufacturing laboratory, aviation dynamics research laboratory, thermal research laboratory, basic and industrial information technology laboratory (LISI), signal, image and communication laboratory (LISI)

(2) Chemistry: joint laboratory of fine chemistry and environmental chemistry, laboratory of water chemistry and environmental chemistry, laboratory of catalyst and organic chemistry, laboratory of natural synthesis and radioactivity;

(3) Earth science: hydrogeology, soil and alteration laboratory, geoscience, geochronology and human paleoecology laboratory;

(4) Biology, health, agronomy and ecology: Rosaceae plant gardening improvement laboratory, chronic bone marrow leukemia cytogenetics and immune response laboratory, cytokine and inflammation laboratory, Helicobacter pylori antigen and genetic diversity laboratory, brain aging research group, cell physiology and cell biology research institute, organ transplantation ischemia-reperfusion research institute, crustacean population biology and genetics laboratory, physical activity psychological adaptability laboratory, anti-infective drug optimal efficacy and pharmacokinetics and model laboratory.

(5) Judicial Science: International Judicial Cooperation Research Center, Private Law Research Group, Doctoral Study and Research Group of Criminal Law in poitiers, Institute of Law of Architecture and Urbanization and Land Consolidation, Institute of Public Law, Institute of Social Health Law, Institute of Rural Economy and Legislation, and Institute of Legal History;

(6) Humanities, economy and social sciences: Management Research Center, Hegel and German Idealism Research Center, Economic Integration and Finance Research Center, Latin American Archives Research Center, Medieval Civilization Advanced Research Center, Linguistics, Literary Form and Expression Research Center, Western Atlantic Center History Research Group, Territory and Environment Identity and Cognition Research Center in the Process of Change, Mass Media Research Institute, Diagnostic Psychopathology Research Laboratory, Science and Technology Communication and Information Research Laboratory, Hellenistic and Romanized Laboratory of Ancient Upper Society, Motor Function and Cognition Laboratory, Language, Memory and Cognitive Development Laboratory, Institute of Memory, Identity and Marginalization of Modern Western World, Institute of International Migration, Territory and Identity, Institute of Social Norms, Cognition and Relations.

In addition to the dozens of research institutions listed above, there are two research institutions that combine scientific research and services, namely:

(1) Center for Aerodynamics and Thermal Research (CEAT). The center has a supersonic and hypersonic wind storage with a pressure of 200 bar, which is used to develop a large number of pneumatic and combustion research equipment, such as blower, wind tunnel, aero-acoustic workbench, launch vehicle workbench and so on. The center gathers some laboratories of several national academies of science, such as the research laboratory of aviation dynamics, the laboratory of combustion and explosion, and the laboratory of solid mechanics, as well as teaching and research personnel from the Faculty of Science, the Beauvoir Institute (ESIP) and the National Institute of Mechanical and Aviation Technology. The research fields involve compressible and incompressible aviation dynamics, aviation acoustics, combustion and explosion, etc.

(2) Museum of Humanities and Social Sciences (MSHS). The museum is home to 12 laboratories, centers or research institutes in humanities and social sciences. The research contents can be summarized as follows: 3 areas (cognition, language and communication, socio-economic changes and population migration, history, civilization and literature); From 2000 to 2006, three projects (language structure and dysfunction, art and technology: improvisation in dance, Internet and its application) funded by 12 seven-year national-regional joint planning project (CPER); And five priority research directions (new technology and cultural heritage, immigration, globalization and dissimilarity, comparative study of identity in the process of change, analysis, writing and expression of complex cognitive process and language). The services provided by the library include literature consultation, information service network consisting of several servers and 300 computer terminals, tape recorders, scanners and printers, 5 small multimedia conference rooms and 65,438+0 conference rooms with a capacity of 200 people, editing, printing and writing periodicals and papers.

Within the framework of the 2000-2006 12 National and Local Joint Plan (CPER) funded project, Poitiers University has adapted to the needs of French social development and economic construction, and also reflected the development level of modern science and technology in the world today, relying on the superior research direction of Poitiers University and institutions of higher learning in mechanical and aviation technology. Their interdisciplinary nature has effectively promoted the cross-laboratory essence of scientific researchers. These research projects are as follows:

(1) Transportation projects: energy-saving and environment-friendly vehicles, aerospace transportation;

(2) Water treatment projects: new water treatment technologies, water resources utilization, water utilization and methods;

(3) Biological and health projects: vasoactive peptides and membrane conduction, visceral transplantation;

(4) Image engineering and pattern recognition project: digital image, virtual environment and simulation;

(5) Humanities projects: The three projects funded by CPER were also introduced when introducing the Humanities and Social Sciences Museum.

In the past few years, Poitiers University has formulated and implemented an ambitious plan to popularize and attach importance to scientific and technological achievements. Therefore, the School-Enterprise Cooperation Center of Poitiers University was established, which is located in the main campus and is dedicated to developing the cooperation between universities and private enterprises or state-owned enterprises, and building a bridge between universities and the social and economic world. The center provides the following services:

(1) Provide instruments and equipment for the technical platform of Poitiers University for a fee, and this service can also be extended to technical high schools or vocational high schools;

(2) Strengthen the contact between scientific researchers, scientific research institutions and enterprises, and assist in negotiating and signing scientific research contracts, consulting, storage licenses and patent certificates;

(3) Design scheme and project tracking of new products;

(4) Receiving scientific research cooperative enterprises from the University Science Park and the Medical Center of Poitiers University not far from the main campus;

(5) technical training;

(6) Assisting students in internship or employment in enterprises;

(7) Jointly hold the annual school-enterprise meeting with the poitiers Residents Association and the Romanian Residents Association to provide a communication platform for universities, students and enterprises.

The center has the following four branches:

(1) Celule de valorization de la Recherche (Cure), University of Poitiers, joint institution of National Institute of Mechanical and Aeronautical Technology and Academy of Sciences;

(2) Incubators Ré regional Poitou-Charentes (IRPC), University of Poitiers, University of La Rochelle, National Institute of Mechanical and Aeronautical Technology and Academy of Sciences;

(3) School-enterprise cooperation office;

(4) Technical Training Office.

The following set of data partially reflects the annual scientific research achievements of Poitiers University:

160 doctoral thesis passed the defense;

More than 1000 papers have been published in officially published international journals;

Officially published academic conference papers 1000;

More than 20 academic conferences, including international academic conference 15;

30 doctoral dissertations jointly cultivated with foreign universities passed the defense.

In 2004, University of Poitiers signed nearly 200 scientific research contracts with enterprises, European scientific research institutions and local administrative regions. There are 30 contracts funded by national ministries and research institutions. 12 achievements have been granted priority patents.

Since 2000 (four years), Xia Lang Special Zone of Boitu has supported 28 enterprise innovation projects, thus establishing 12 enterprises.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that paleontologists at the University of Poitiers discovered the fossils of human ancestors 7 million years ago in Chad in central Africa, one million years earlier than before. Michel Brunet and Patrick Vignaud, professors at the University of Poitiers, pointed out in a research report published in Nature that Toumai, who looks like an ape without a tail, has both the characteristics of chimpanzees and humans, and lived about six to seven million years ago. Daniel Lieberman, a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, said: "This is undoubtedly the greatest paleontological discovery of the past century." Ian tattersall, an expert on human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History, thinks this is an extraordinary achievement.