What reveals the report of the Court of Auditors on the CNRS money stream | EUROtoday
Unot “flourishing financial situation”. A report by the Court of Auditors, rendered Tuesday, March 25, unveils the nice administration of the CNRS, with “healthy” accounts and a money surplus estimated at 1.4 billion euros on the finish of 2023, up 900 million euros over eleven years. The analysis group, which represents “the largest operator in the state after France work”, “shows maturity in the field of management worthy of being noted in the world of higher education and research”, salute the magistrates.
However, this money stream of greater than 1 billion euros truly displays an “insufficient insufficient body to pilot its own resources”, resulting from its decentralization administration between its 1,130 blended analysis items (UMR). According to the magistrates, “the guardianships do not have an overview of the available resources and the job projected” which “results in a heterogeneous decentralized management, often very cautious”.
Loss of attractiveness
The Court of Auditors recommends utilizing this cash to “develop research capacities” with specifically investments in doctoral facilities or in superior tools. This might make it attainable to enhance the attractiveness of the CNRS for younger researchers, whereas greater than a 3rd of the holders had been over 55 years previous in 2023 and that functions have decreased by 36 % in ten years. The analysis group may even be “faced with a major skills renewal issue in the coming years”, underlines the report.
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The report additionally provides avenues to lighten the “administrative burden” that has elevated lately, calling for simplifying sure procedures and trusting researchers “. Indeed, according to the Court of Auditors, administrative management “occupies from 20 % to 30 % of the time of researchers”.
Read too French analysis not desires to be rackedFinally, the magistrates alert to the faults of pc programs whereas the very decentralized group of the CNRS exposes it extra to the dangers of cyber assault.
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