It will perhaps become your favorite leisureHalf a dozen leaders of the CAC 40 settled thereBut when Europe is not yet won far from itAlso the Euribor 3 months EUR rate fell 0Revel the message of the patterns is moreThis is my motherinlaw who found the siteCopy to correctCobblers are always the worse rideTechnologies have evolved in recent yearsIn the second quarter organic growth declined by 8Last year they grew by 16 to 698 billion yen"Dé-cloi-his-ner." This could be the battle cry of this peaceful grandfather good smile and gentle voice. Officially, Pierre Vialle, 65, is retired since April 4. Unofficially, his days are busy. If it has abandoned its mandates at the head of the General Council of agriculture, food and rural areas (CGAAER) and the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire aliments (Afssa), he presided for a few months yet another safety agency, in charge of environment and labour (Afsset). And, above all, he just be given a final and difficult mission by the President of the Republic: that to the Campus of the Saclay plateau plan, carry out a large-scale project aimed at making that grouping of 23 schools and research organizations the X at the CNRS, passing by CET, the ENS de Cachan and CEA a pole of excellence able to compete by 2015 with the Cambridge, Stanford and other MIT. A pharaonic construction, at the end of which about 20 of the population of the French research should be concentrated in a triangle bounded by Jouy-en-Josas, Gif-sur-Yvette and Palaiseau.
The process of "cross fertilization" being part of the DNA of this project, the choice of Paul Vialle for the lead is particularly wise. Throughout his professional life, the French General engineer of rural engineering, water and forests (GREF) a body he headed since 2003 trying to open borders, killing the chapels and break the baronies, short of facilitating trade. The merger in its body of origin with that of the Ponts et Chaussées, he has driven and driving with his counterpart Claude Martinand, is a good example. "No one could recall the name of the last of the honored", was used to say.
Man of convictions
It is this same conviction that union is strength which had him at the end of the 1990s, when he headed the national Institute of agronomic research (Inra), to propose a partnership of equal to equal with some universities and grandes écoles. A then relatively unexpected initiative on the part of the pattern of a research organization. But it is true that Paul Vialle had previously been across the barrier, as Director of the Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon (such as Inra, the INA - PG is part of the Saclay plateau).
It is to bring down a few walls that he had been appointed in command of the Inra in July 1996 by François of Aubert (and maintained) in position the following year by his successor Claude Allègre. Four months earlier, the new virus of mad cow disease was transmissible to man had sounded like a clap of Thunder in the sky of London. On this side of the channel, Ministers of higher education and research did not understand why the Inra was passed next to this discovery. "It was a question of organization chart." "The system had shortcomings by partitioning", he said. This diagnosis will be followed by treatment of horse in the form of total redesign of the Institute and complete change of the management team. "Today, the Inra is in running order," the father of Genoplante welcomed, a large program of genomic plant that combines public and business research private still a decompartmentalization efforts.
