The College of Academic Learned Societies of France is an association created in February 2021 whose members are French Academic Learned Societies and scientific or educational associations sharing certain goals with learned societies. The main mission of the College is to promote the exact, experimental and human and social sciences and to strengthen their voice in public debate and action.
As such, the awarding of scientific prizes being an important mission of the Learned Societies, the College is pleased to announce today with its partners, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and France Universités representing nearly 2 million students and 3,000 research laboratories, the creation of the Interdisciplinarity Prize. This prize will reward a team, from one or more laboratories, made up of specialists from distinct disciplines and combining multiple approaches: experimental, exact sciences, humanities, human and social sciences, etc. Its work will shed original light on an object, a method, a process or an interpretation, designed and developed jointly, and whose results could not have been obtained without the complementary contributions of various disciplines.
Awarded every two years, it will aim to further highlight interdisciplinary research, which is essential to solving the major scientific and societal challenges we face. This is the first prize to be awarded by such a collective.
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