R&D Culture and Digital: the agreement with INRIA

Develop the ccollaboration between cultural institutions and the world of research in digital sciences

As part of its digital strategy, the Ministry of Culture has approached Inria, National Digital Research Institute, in order to develop collaboration between cultural institutions and the world of research in digital sciences. In this field of science, Inria is indeed a major organization of international stature.

The National InstituteResearch in computer science and automation

With a staff of some 2,000 researchers divided into 170 teams, Inria is the only public institution entirely devoted to digital sciences, covering the whole field: algorithms, artificial intelligence, human-machine interaction, semantic web etc. In addition, Inria is historically involved in the birth of the Web as a co-founder member of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the global body for Web standardization. Moreover, as an operator of applied research (research and development or R&D), it constitutes a bridge between the scientific and technological field, on the one hand, and the industrial and economic players, on the other. Inria is therefore an essential research partner for the technological component of the Ministry’s digital innovation, in parallel with its action in favour of innovation through use.

A framework convention

The partnership between the Ministry of Culture and Inria takes the form of a framework agreement. Agreement whose purpose is to accelerate and simplify the set-up of R&D projects between the Ministry and its network of supervised institutions on the one hand, and the Research Institute on the other. The main objectives of this cooperation are:

• to form an interface between the world of actors of culture and that of researchers in the digital sciences and thus foster interdisciplinarity;
• help cultural actors to take ownership of the culture of innovation and facilitate the removal of technological barriers in all areas of digital technology;
• promote the transfer of technology from Inria’s research teams to cultural actors and pool national R&D efforts, know-how and resources.

This convention will stimulate the implementation of innovative and experimental technological projects, but responding to concrete use cases for cultural institutions and their audiences.

In order to foster networking and the culture of innovation, the convention also provides for the organization of an annual meeting between the staff of cultural institutions and Inria researchers.

Download the framework agreement

See here the framework agreement (pdf).

Contact us

Digital Department for Cultural Policy Transformation

and data administration: mcc-inria@culture.gouv.fr {mél}

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