International Research Networks (IRN)
An International Research Network involves several partners from France and other countries and creates a beneficial forum for scientific exchanges on a given research theme.
An IRN brings together from one to three laboratories per country working under the supervision of a coordinating committee for a renewable 5-year period. CNRS Informatics currently has 4 IRNs underway:
AI&Cyber
The main objective of the AI&Cyber network is to conduct joint research activities involving artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity. AI has a major impact on many areas of digital science and even more widely. Learning algorithms can help define cybersecurity systems (biometric authentication, phishing attack detection, etc.), analyze digital traces (file slicing, system supervision, etc.) and create new attacks (biometrics, distributed denial of service, etc.).
AI & CYBER associates :
- In france : The Groupe de recherche en Informatique, image, automatique et instrumentation de Caen (GREYC - CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université de Caen Normandie)
- In Norway :
EU-CHECK
Launched in May 2023,the IRN European Community Hub of Expertise in Cybersecurity Knowledge ( EU-CHECK) is an initiative to drive the European cybersecurity community to increase the multidisciplinary understanding of cybersecurity, in order to create the conditions for the emergence of secure digital systems. It explores security aspects from a multi-faceted perspective, as cybersecurity is a complex issue that needs to be approached from many different angles.
This IRN brings together researchers from 21 institutions from 16 EU countries. EU-CHECK provides a community platform where its multidisciplinary members engage in activities around three dimensions: education and training, research and innovation, and networking.
FJ-IA
SEAN
The IRN Software Engineering Awareness Network (SEAN), established in 2025, comprises an international network (Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, England, the Netherlands and Denmark).
Software has become fundamental to (and ubiquitous in) our society, yet its complexity continues to grow. Born out of a French manifesto, which later became European in scope, this collaborative project aims to place software engineering back at the heart of national, European and international calls for proposals, which are increasingly focused exclusively on applications rather than the fundamentals.
It therefore does not benefit from a long-standing collaboration at the level of research groups or institutions, but rather seeks to fill a gap in this area by building on the existing collaborations and personal relationships of the participants involved.
Scientists involved: Jean-Michel Bruel (France), Sébastien Mosser (Canada), Ana Moreira (Portugal), Antonia Bertolina (Italy), Bertrand Meyer and Timo Kehrer (Switzerland), Gilles Perrouin (Belgium), Jordi Cabot (Luxembourg), Steffen Zschaler (England), Tanja Vos (Netherlands)