Centre de recherche insulaire et observatoire de l'environnement (CRIOBE)

In 2019, the CNRS launched a partnership with the ACFAS to organise the French edition of La Preuve par l’Image, an annual photo competition first held in Quebec in 2010. For this fourth CNRS edition, researchers were again invited to submit their best scientific images. The competition challenges participants to showcase their research by means of eye-catching, thought-provoking images rather than words.

Scientific publications on the state of biodiversity are multiplying, often painting an alarming picture. However, solutions exist to deal with this growing erosion. Here are a few examples to prove it.

Still little known, marine environments are threatened by human activities. As the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) begins, the scientific community, political decision-makers, companies and civil society must work together now to protect and conserve these ecosystems. This exhibition has been produced within this framework, based on scientific results.

In 2019, the CNRS launched a partnership with Acfas by extending the photo competition La preuve par l'image, which was initiated in 2010 in Quebec, to France. For this second edition, the CNRS research community has been invited to submit their best research image. The challenge of this competition is to use images, which challenge and question, rather than words to show research.

In 2019, the CNRS celebrated the 80th anniversary of its creation. You can discover eight decades of research, exploration and discoveries through a thematic journey combining social issues and major transformations which asks essential questions about what our society will be like tomorrow to help imagine the future.

How do both recent and distant traces of the past take on the status of heritage objects? This CNRS exhibition reveals this whole process of transmission. From the discovery of an object to its exhibition through its authentication and protection, science takes an active role in each of these stages and thus creates a link between past civilisations and future generations.

CNRS research in the French overseas territories involves highly varied disciplines ranging from ecology, life sciences, earth sciences, physics and chemistry to the humanities and social sciences. It is transversal and interdisciplinary research which is both fundamental and applied in nature and involves a large community of researchers, academics, engineers and technicians.

CNRS research in the French overseas territories involves highly varied disciplines ranging from ecology, life sciences, earth sciences, physics and chemistry to the humanities and social sciences. It is transversal and interdisciplinary research which is both fundamental and applied in nature and involves a large community of researchers, academics, engineers and technicians.

Biodiversity "is life". There is an extremely rich diversity of living things which involves all environments and latitudes but remains relatively unknown. Biodiversity is essential for humans because it provides them with essential services (resources, ecological services, chemical and therapeutic innovations, feedback effect on changes, etc.). The main challenge for researchers is to understand the organization and dynamics of biodiversity and its role in how ecosystems function.