May 15, 2020
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
International Network of Pasteur Institutes: deepening the scientific collective strategy
Three years ago, the scientific community of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes (INPI) expressed its desire to build a comprehensive strategy in order to strengthen its positioning and establish itself as a global public health authority. The Scientific Steering Committee of the Institut Pasteur International Network (SC-IPIN) was created in August 2019 to help achieve this goal. Its 8 members, chosen from the IPIN research community and the international scientific community, held their first face-to-face meeting on February 17-18, 2020.
While the world is facing an exceptional health crisis with COVID-19 pandemic, the role of the network is incontestable (read the article "COVID-19 pandemic: the collective engagement of the Institut Pasteur International Network") thanks to the mobilization of partners rooted in local landscapes, some for more than a century, who are sharing a long tradition of exchange. In this context, CS-IPIN has been given a structuring role: the evaluation of IPIN research projects submitted to the call for projects launched by the Institut Pasteur task force on COVID-19.