The CRI
Located 5 minutes walk from the Luxembourg Gardens at the Paris Descartes Medicine Faculty in Cochin, the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) was founded in 2005 as a convivial place at the crossroad between Life Sciences and exact, natural, cognitive and social sciences.
Our environment includes a fully-equipped seminar room, a meeting room, office space for visiting professors, a library and coffee rooms and a modelling as well as wet-lab space (starting January 2009).
The CRI workshops ('clubs')
Aimed at promoting the interaction between graduate students and researchers, diverse student-lead workshops are held on a bi-weekly basis where students and experts interact in an informal yet intensive manner.
The workshops are supplied with funding dedicated to organising student-lead conferences and to invite international speakers.
These sessions are open to the entire scientific Paris community.
Science, Education and Society
Researchers at the CRI are involved in studying and initiating projects at the interface of Science, education and society, spanning from young children (MedILS summer school for kids and the Paris Montagne Science Festival), high school students from disadvantaged environment (Science Ac') and graduate students (MedILS summer school, AIV master program, FdV PhD program)
Latest publications:
1. UNESCO/OTAN (i)
2. UNESCO/OTAN(ii)
Associated graduate studies programs
The CRI hosts the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences master program (AIV) and the European Interdisciplinary "Frontiers in Life Sciences PhD program (FdV) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure d'Ulm, Paris Decartes and Paris Diderot universities, accommodating the brightest students of backgrounds ranging from Philosophy, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine.
In general, the CRI welcomes interdisciplinary courses and seminars of other graduate programs.
For more information please contact us.
The major developments of new technologies of information and communication has opened an uncharted facet of digital communities, teaching and learning, cooperation and information dessimination across networks while putting forward new and effective means of study. The weekly Tuesday meetings at the CRI ('mardicri') serve as a think-tank, gathering the CRI researchers, dispatched from France Telecom-Orange, together with CRI participants to address different approaches for studying these newly emerging themes and provide a framework for interdisciplinary exchange. The discussion group is open to all those that are interested in these topics.