Extreme climatic events : reducing the vulnerability of ecological and social systems
RST 29 - June 2010 - Ed. EDP Sciences - 28,00 €
Report in French excepted :
Summary (pdf 90 Ko)

G8 Academies' joint statement
May 2010
"Joint G8 Sciences Academies' Statement on Health of Women and Children" (pdf 716 Ko)
"Joint G8 Sciences Academies' Statement on Innovation for Development" (pdf 714 Ko)

"Independent opinions of Academicians on environment and sustainable development" (pdf 333 Ko)
The Académie des sciences has a new section for the public called “Libres points de vue ’Académiciens” (Indepedent opinions of Academicians), where questions on subjects of science and society are answered.
In the run up to the Copenhagen conference on climate change in December 2009, the first subject tackled was called “Independent opinions of Academicians on the environment and sustainable development”.
19 May 2010

Report of the working group of the Académie des sciences on the French Law 99-587 of 12 July 1999 "Innovation and Research" (pdf 421 Ko)
1 February 2010

Life-expectancy for digital data - How long can digital data be stored? (pdf 228 Ko)
A commissioned report by the “PSN” Academic Working Party on Life Expectancy for Digital Supports. PSN-WP has Members common to both the Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Technologies of France - March 2010 - Ed. EDP Sciences

Individual evaluation of full time and academic researchers in theoretical and experimental sciences (pdf 400 Ko) - Report first published in French on 8 July 2009
1 March 2010

"Attractiveness of Careers in Research" (pdf 71 Ko)
9 July 2008

All the Reports

18 December 2009
Election of 18 Foreign Associates

16 December 2008
Jean Salençon is elected President and Alain Carpentier is elected Vice-President of the French Academy of Sciences for 2009-2010

Richard Lounsbery Award
Winner 2010: Gérard Karsenty, Department of Genetics and Development - Columbia University Medical Center (USA)

Descartes-Huygens Award
Winners 2009:
Artur Wilde and Marc Humbert
Gay-Lussac Humboldt Award
Winners 2009:
Hartmut Herrmann, Leibniz-Institut (Leipzig)
Martin Möller, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik (Bonn)
Roland Netz, Technische Universität (Munich)
Claus M. Schneider, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Rainer Schröder, Humboldt-Universität (Berlin)

Peer Bork is the winner 2009 of the Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award

2009 awards recipients

The French Academy of Sciences has awarded the "Grande Médaille" to Robert A. Weinberg
23 June 2009