BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, January 8, 2021

The newsletter team invites you to take a look back at the highlights of 2020, a year that will stand out in all our memories on both an individual and a collective level.This compilation contains events and news stories that took place during the global health crisis and that reflect the concerted response and unwavering commitment of Institut Pasteur staff in tackling COVID-19. The 2020 retrospective is also a great opportunity to look back at all these projects and initiatives led by the Institut Pasteur, despite the crisis, to continue advancing research in a host of other areas of expertise...

Institut Pasteur wishes to create a limited number of new research units (U5) on its Paris campus. These units will be created for 5 years and will be composed of up to 6 persons. At the end of the 5-year period, heads of U5 may apply for a classical research Unit (U10).

This year's annual appraisals and career development reviews has begun December 4, 2020, and will run until February 12, 2021. All Institut Pasteur employees now have to take part in the appraisal process, except for those on fixed-term contracts of less than 6 months, PhD students and contract workers, as well as post-doctoral fellows for 2020.

Following an increase in serious incidents in France, the French Prime Minister has decided to raise the Vigipirate national security alert system to the level Urgence attentat ("Attack emergency") for the whole country. The senior management has adapted procedures at the Institut Pasteur accordingly, and you were notified of the new campus access regulations in recent messages from the PBRP Committee.