CNRS@CREATE

About CNRS@CREATE

Singapore: the CNRS opens CNRS@CREATE, its first overseas subsidiary

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) strengthened its presence in Singapore by integrating the CREATE Campus of the NRF. CNRS Chairman and CEO Antoine Petit inaugurated CNRS@CREATE on 25 June 2019. It is CNRS’ first overseas subsidiary. It works with Singapore’s universities, research institutions, and CREATE’s international partners to conduct research and application of technologies in areas that are relevant to Singapore’s social and economic needs.  

“CNRS is the first research organisation to be part of CREATE, and we look forward to a fruitful collaboration”, says Jean-Yves Marzin, Chairman of CNRS@CREATE.

Read the full Press Release here.

Inauguration of CNRS@CREATE in 2019 (from left to right: Professor Low Teck Seng, NRF CEO ; Mr Marc Abensour, Ambassador of France to Singapore ; Professor Antoine Petit, CNRS CEO). Credits CNRS@CREATE

CNRS@CREATE GOALS:

  • to strengthen France and Singapore’s global position in the areas of research of the highest potential for present and future society.

  • to create unique initiatives in transdisciplinary research of excellence and technology development which would not exist under normal circumstances or within a single country or institution.

  • to support translational research and innovation for promoting exploitation of research results. Direct industry participation in research projects is encouraged to ensure efficient transformation of research results into innovative products

CNRS@CREATE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS

The CNRS team in Singapore. Credits: CNRS@CREATE The CNRS team in Singapore. Credits: CNRS@CREATE.

Interdisciplinary programs

DesCartes Program

The DesCartes team in Singapore. Credits: CNRS@CREATE

DesCartes Program aims to develop disruptive hybrid AI to serve the smart city and to enable optimized decision-making in complex situations, encountered for critical urban systems.

The program is composed of 10 work packages, allocated to three pillars:

  • A first pillar revolving around “Intelligent Computing”. Its aim is to develop computer science tools to manage smart data and produce certified and explainable hybrid twins and controllers, based on physical / knowledge-aware models.

  • A second pillar focused on “empowering people in Smart societies”, which studies the collaborative process of decision making between human operators and the Hybrid AI; develops natural language front-ends for more natural operators-HAI interaction; develops ethical guidelines for policymakers and HAI designers; develops a minimal set of guidelines for the legal regulation of and policy development for implementing Hybrid AI; studies the overall integration and co-development processes of DesCartes.

  • A third pillar dedicated to engineering and builders which brings the engineering, technological, and application dimensions to the concept of HAI. It aims at proposing operational methodology and architecture, from smart sensing and predictive diagnostics to robust and scalable control, for critical and complex system-of-systems.

Program director: Professor Francisco Chinesta.

Partners:

From Singapore: NTU, NUS, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore University of Social Sciences;

From France: Université Paris-Saclay, École Normale Supérieure-Paris-Saclay, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Université Lyon III - Jean Moulin, Université Côte d’Azur, Université de Bordeaux, École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, Paris Sciences & Lettres, Université de Strasbourg, Arts et Métiers, Université Grenoble Alpes, INP Grenoble and INP ENSEEIHT ;

Industry: ARIA, CETIM, EDF Lab Singapore, ESI Group and Thales & Thales Solution Asia.

Learn more about DesCartes program here: https://descartes.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/

Intra-Create Projects

EcoCTs
Engineering biology for a circular bioeconomy – Towards urban sustainability.

Partners: CNRS, NUS and ASTAR. The duration of the project is 3 years, and it started in october 2020.

Learn more about EcoCTs here:https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/ecocts/

The EcoCTs team in Singapore. Credits: CNRS@CREATE

CALIPSO
Computer Assisted Live Imaging for Predictive Screening of Organoids.

Partners: CNRS, NUS and NTU. The duration of the project is 3 years, and it started in october 2020.

Learn more about CALIPSO here: https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/calipso/

The CALIPSO team in Singapore, with their soSPIM microscope. Credits: CNRS@CREATE

ScaNCellS
Engineering Scaffold-Mediated Neural Cell Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury Treatment._

Partners: NTU and CNRS. The duration of the project is 3 years, and it started in october 2020.

Learn more about ScanNCellS here: https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/scancells/

The ScaNCellS team in Singapore. Credits CNRS@CREATE

SPACE
Shaping Public Adaptive Capacity For Environmental Infectious Diseases.

The partners are CNRS, NTU, NUS, SMU, SUSS and SUTD. The duration of the project is 3 years, and it started in April 2022.

Learn more about SPACE here:  https://space.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/

The SPACE team in Singapore. Credits CNRS@CREATE

Seed-Funding Projects

BUBBLE
Orchestrating Chemistry in a Bubble to Upcycle Food Waste into Specialty Chemicals

Learn more about BUBBLE here: https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/bubble/

Int2MEC
Intelligent Multi-Energy Communities for enhanced distributed resources Integration in Singapore

Learn more about Int2MEC here: https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/int2mec/

Other Projects

FCP-NEWBORN
Advanced Technology for Sub-THz Waveguides Based on Carbon Nanotubes

Partners: CNRS and NTU.

Learn more about this project here: https://www.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/fcp-project/

CNRS@CREATE investigators are eligible to other NRF or Singaporean calls

How to apply?

For more details and application, please contact us.

Contact Us

CNRS@CREATE website

CNRS website

Email:
cnrsatcreate@cnrs.fr

Where to Find Us
1 Create Way, #08-01/02
Create Tower
Singapore 138602