FOCUS – In an open letter, Professor Philippe Cinquin calls for the collective resignation of the board of directors of the University of Grenoble Alpes. In question ? The award in 2016 of the Initiatives of Excellence (Idex) call for projects. A procedure canceled, against a background of conflict of interest, by the courts without all the light being able to be shed on the case. And this a few days before the visit to the jury’s campus for Idex 2021 …
Professor Philippe Cinquin, researcher in medical informatics, CNRS Innovation Medal in 2013 (image extracted from CNRS video)
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Is the case of the call for projects labeled Idex (Initiatives of excellence) in 2016 closed? In April, a professor from the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) denounced, alongside the Snesup-FSU union, the conditions for the allocation of this fund endowed with 20 million euros. which had led the administrative court of Grenoble to judge the irregular procedure before canceling it.
Two months later, Philippe Cinquin drives home the point. In an open letter addressed to the presidents – the previous and the current – of the UGA and to the administrators of the University of Grenoble, the mathematician and doctor calls for the collective resignation of the board of directors.
” Enough is enough ! You have broken the contract of confidence that binds the staff of the UGA to their highest authorities, by refusing to draw the necessary consequences from the multiple breaches of ethics that occurred in the selection process of the flagship program of the initiative of excellence (Idex) from Grenoble, its “Cross Disciplinary Program” (CDP2016), then in the examination by the highest authorities of the UGA of the reporting of these breaches ”, accuses Professor Cinquin.
How much influence did the president of the UGA have on the selection process?
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