Appointed Deputy Managing Director Science and Innovation on 1is January 2020 From the creation of INRAE, resulting from the merger of INRA and Irstea, Carole Caranta has until then supported Christine Cherbut in the exercise of developing, steering and declining the scientific strategy and innovation of the new institute. On the proposal of the Chairman and CEO of INRAE, and after the vote of the members of the Board of Directors of the institute, the appointment of Carole Caranta as head of the Deputy Directorate General for Science and Innovation for a term of four years takes effect. 1is avril 2021.
In close collaboration with all the scientific departments and responsible for major transversal programs and research infrastructures, in consultation with the three scientific departments Agriculture, Food and Environment and with the support of the departments concerned, Carole Caranta’s priority will be to ensure the deployment and concrete implementation of the INRAE 2030 strategy. She will thus ensure the translation of this strategy. in the strategic plans of research departments undergoing renewal. In coordination with the Center presidents, she will pay particular attention to the implementation of the scientific and partnership strategy in the center plans, in support of ambitious site policies.
A scientific journey and a vision under the sign of innovation
With a rich background in research and scientific strategic management, Carole Caranta has already supervised, as Deputy DGDSI, the finalization of six interdisciplinary scientific prospects. to anticipate research needs and supported the implementation of nine new metaprograms, to develop interdisciplinarity and build new research communities. More broadly, she contributed to the strategic reflection work around INRAE 2030. She also led and led the research community in plant biology and improvement, by carrying out two terms of department head. Director of the Carnot Plant2Pro Institute (plant productions at the service of agroecological transition) for five years, she focused on the development of research with socio-economic partners in order to increase the transfer to stakeholders and accelerate the shift from research to innovation.
An ambitious roadmap to support INRAE 2030
In order to nurture the ambitious and transformative framework that constitutes INRAE’s strategic plan for 2030, Carole Caranta will promote the emergence of new scientific fronts both in fundamental and applied fields, within disciplines but also at the interfaces between disciplines, and by mobilizing a diversity of partners and actors. In line with the general policy orientations set out in INRAE 2030, the new DGDSI will strongly support science and open innovation systems. More generally, its action will accompany and support the new meaning given to research in its more complex subjects of study, its inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, its products -an open science- and, of course, its practices.
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Carole Caranta’s career in brief Born in 1969. Holder of a DEA in Cellular Biology and Microbiology, a Doctorate in Sciences and an Habilitation to Direct Research (Aix-Marseille II). Contractual scientific attaché at INRA since 1992, she completed a post-doctoral internship at INIA in Madrid in 1996. She returned to INRA Research Officer in 1997 and became Research Director in 2006 at the Genetics Unit. and Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables at the Inra PACA Center where she works on molecular interactions between plants and viruses. She became head of the Department of Biology and Plant Improvement from 2012 until the end of 2019. In 2016, she also became director of the Carnot Plant2Pro Institute. When INRAE was founded, she became Deputy Managing Director for Science and Innovation. She supports the strategic reflection work around INRAE 2030 in 2020 and was appointed DGDSI on 1is avril 2021. – |
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