Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
France
Description: IRD is a French public research establishment operating under the joint authority of the French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. It takes an original approach to research, expertise, training and knowledge-sharing for the benefit of countries and regions, making science and innovation key drivers in their development.
A science committed to a sustainable future
Scientific progress is necessary to further sustainable and human development: IRD carries this conviction with it wherever it is present, and wherever it works with its partners.
IRD is a key French player on the international development agenda. Its work is founded on an original model: equitable scientific partnership with developing countries, primarily those in the intertropical regions and the Mediterranean area.
IRD sets its priorities in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in September 2015, to steer development policies. Combining critical analysis into the implementation of these goals, IRD seeks to tackle the challenges facing us today: global, environmental, economic, social and cultural changes that affect the whole planet.
The IRD is a multidisciplinary institute and upholds the specific nature of its approach by conducting research that is in line with major issues in development.
IRD research is at the cutting edge of “the science of sustainability” and primarily draws inspiration from the problems facing the real world, ecosystems and societies, instead of based on the own dynamic of the scientific disciplines that it brings to bear. Because this research focuses on the intertropical and Mediterranean region, which is the most ecologically, socially and politically vulnerable of current development models, this research often finds itself, virtually automatically, at the front line of major debates. To this end, the IRD favours interdisciplinary and intersectoral scientific approaches to SDGs.
The markers of our action in favour of development
A fair scientific partnership and joint publications with partners in developing countries
Solutions tailored to global challenges and based on scientific evidence
Public policies informed by scientific progress
Citizens actively involved in change
Responsible innovations
Specific assessments and expertise
Supporting multidisciplinary and partnership research into the main issues of development
The IRD is at the forefront of international science, collaboratively producing rigorous scientific material that informs decision-makers and fuels public policies. Global health, governance, inequality and poverty, mobility and migration, climate and global change, oceans, natural risks, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, ecosystems and resources: these are some of the topics addressed in a multidisciplinary approach. Its scientific activity takes place in its research units and schemes in France and abroad.
Official contact: Olivier Barriere
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