In 2010, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (
ENS de Lyon), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (
CNRS) and the East China Normal University (
ECNU) joined forces to create the Joint Research Institute for Science and Society (JoRISS).
This research structure established as its fundamental missions:
• Facilitating the development of Sino-French scientific projects involving
the three partners
• Stimulating interdisciplinary research
• Increasing the contribution of science to solving the major societal
challenges of the 21st century
• Creating links between academic and industrial research
• Reinforcing the PROSFER doctoral exchange program