With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

The Académie des Sciences is a member of IAP Executive Committee. The Académie hosted the 6 and 7 November 2014 meeting,

at which the decision to restructure IAP was taken, and where the need for the activities of the network to gather momentum arised.

EASAC

The

European Academies’ Science Advisory Council

(EASAC) includes the 29 national academies of

science of the States of the European Union (EU), each represented by one of its members (Daniel

Ricquier for the Académie des Sciences). Its goal is to provide the European institutions with independent

and expert advice on the scientific aspects of public policy in the EU, particularly by issuing reports and

statements on aspects the network deems crucial. In 2014, the Académie des Sciences has:

• convened the Boards of EASAC and the Académie des Sciences to discuss, in particular, the policies through which consensus may

be reached at the European level and the most efficient way to submit such common views to the leading institutions (15 November

2014);

• contributed to the presentation of EASAC’s report,

European Space Exploration: Strategic Considerations of Human

versus

Robotic

Exploration

- to which Académie Member Jean-Louis Puget has contributed - at a press conference held at the Embassy of

Switzerland in Paris (15 september 2014);

• greeted the 9

meeting of the EASAC Energy Steering Panel, on the initiative of one of its members, Sébastien Candel, a member

of the Académie (29 April 2014).

ALLEA

The

All European Academies

(ALLEA) network gathers 58 academies - science, human and social sciences, humanities - from 40 countries

in the area covered by the Council of Europe. Through its standing committees, it notably devotes its work to the following themes: Ethics

and

Science, Science Education and Intellectual Property

. In 2014, the Académie des Sciences was involved in the organization of the

conference of the North-South Aemase

(African-European-Mediterranean Academies for Science in Education)

programme of ALLEA.

Through the International Council for Science

ICSU

(International Council for Science)

, founded in 1931, is the most important non-

governmental scientific organization in the world. Comprising 121 national members and

32 international scientific unions, it is responsible for fostering the international scientific

and technological community and supporting universal access to science. The Académie

des Sciences is a national member of this Council, whose headquarters is located in Paris.

After setting inmotionand successfully completing thegreat programmes on the environment

and climate

, ICSU launched in 2014

Future Earth

, a new collaborative programme

whose

goals are directed towards the future of our planet in all of its aspects, including its evolution

towards sustainable development. France was chosen to host one of the 5 Boards of this

programme. On the scientific side, the patronage of ICSU, ISSC and WMO guarantees that ongoing projects shall be carried on with some

continuity. Moreover, the key word to elaborating new projects is

“co-design”

, which implies that all elements, and even funding agencies, have

their say in the decisions. This is indeed a new way of working, which shall include all the natural and social scientific disciplines. In addition

to Future Earth, two complementary programmes are in operation:

Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment and Integrated

Research on Disaster Risk

On the initiative of Marie-Lise Chanin, a member of the Académie who is its representative at ICSU, and under the direction of Académie Member

Hervé Le Treut, the Académie des Sciences held a colloquium on 13 and 14 May 2013 in Paris, allowing the European community involved in

ICSU to prepare for the implementation of the Future Earth programme. This colloquium convened about 100 persons - scientists from the

various programmes for global change, and representatives from social sciences, funding agencies and the political world. Seven similar

colloquia have taken place in other regions of the world.

This colloquium is in line with the wider context of actions carried out by the

Group of the European members of ICSU

, founded on

the initiative of the French Académie des Sciences and the Royal Society in 2003. Since it was set up, the role of this group has

considerably increased, all European countries being now represented there. Moreover, it has been most useful to the Eastern

European countries that are less acquainted with ICSU.