List of Acronyms and Initialisms That Inria and University Use (also called the LAITIUU)
Here is Inria's version: https://intranet.inria.fr/Vie-pratique/Nouveaux-arrivants/Glossaire-sigles-Inria
Keep in alphabetical order.
| Acronym | Stands for | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| AC | Agent comptable, Agence comptable | |
| ADS | Adjoint(e) au DGD-S | |
| AER | Assistant[e] d'Equipe de Recherche | Project assistant, e.g. Katia Evrat for Aviz. Each AER is in charge of 3-4 EPIs |
| AEx | Action exploratoire | |
| ANR | Agence Nationale pour la Recherche | French National Funding Agency for Research https://anr.fr/ |
| APC | Access Processing Charge | Access Processing Charge for Open Access (OA) |
| ARP | ||
| ATER | Attachés temporaires d'enseignement et de recherche | Post-doc position for teaching. |
| BAC | Bacalauréat or Brigade Anti Criminalité | Bacalauréat is the national exam at the end of high-school. BAC is a special police force. |
| BASTRI | BAse des STructures de Recherche Inria | Database of information on Inria projects https://bastri.inria.fr/ |
| BCEP | Bureau du Comité des Équipes Projets (formerly BCP) | Small set of REPIs overseeing the scientific life of the CRI |
| BIL | Base d'Information des Logiciels | Database of software developed by Inria projects https://bil.inria.fr/ |
| CASA | Congé et Autorisation Spéciale d'Absence | Service to declare vacations and off days https://casa.inria.fr |
| CDD | Contrat à Durée Déterminé | Fixed term contract in France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_employment_contract |
| CDI | Contrat à Durée Indéterminé | Unlimited term contract in France |
| CDSN | Contrats Doctoraux Spécifiques pour Normaliens | https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/programme-doctoral-normalien-nes-de-lens-paris-saclay-cdsn |
| CE | Commission d'évaluation | |
| CEA | Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique | Nuclear Energy Research Center, doing research on everything related to nuclear power, including CS, biology, physics, chemistry, etc. has 1 joint Inria team (Parietal), see http://www.cea.fr/ |
| CEP | Comité des Équipes Projets, formerly CP | Meeting of all the team leaders every month |
| CEP | Comité des Équipes Projets, formerly CP | Meeting of all the team leaders every month |
| CER | Comité d'éthique pour la recherche | The French IRB, for non-medical research. Also see CPP, COERLE, IRB. |
| CFDT | Confédération française démocratique du travail | Worker union |
| CGT | Confédération Générale du Travail | Worker union |
| CHSCT or CNHSCT | Comité National Hygiène Sécurité et des Conditions de Travail | Committee in charge of our working conditions, health, security https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_d%27hygi%C3%A8ne,_de_s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9_et_des_conditions_de_travail |
| CMAP | Centre de MAthématiques APpliquées | Applied math department of École Polytechnique, hosts joint Inria teams https://portail.polytechnique.edu/cmap/fr |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | French National Research Center. Description here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_national_de_la_recherche_scientifique, See also http://www.cnrs.fr/ |
| COERLE | Comité opérationnel d'évaluation des risques légaux et éthiques | Inria's IRB, which also deals with legal issues. Also see CER, CPP, IRB. |
| COP | Contrat d'objectives et de performance | It's a document Inria writes for itself to set its goals for the future. |
| CoSI | Commission scientifique interne, composée des ADS, du DGD-S, des DS et des DSA. | |
| CP | Comité des Projets | Former name of CEP, meeting of all the heads of the Inria teams. Typically per centre. |
| CPP | Comité de protection des personnes | The French IRB, for medical research. Also see CER, COERLE, IRB. |
| CPU | Conférence des Présidents d'Université | Organization of the presidents of universities in France http://www.cpu.fr/ |
| CR | Chargé de Recherche / Centre de recherche | Equivalennt to assistant prof. at Inria or CNRS (no teaching required). |
| CRCN | Chargé de Recherche de Classe Normale | New name for CR |
| CRI | Centre de Recherche Inria | A center like Saclay, see https://intranet.inria.fr/Inria/Siege-Centres |
| CS | Conseil scientifique | |
| CS | CentraleSupelec | Another university/ecole with this name that is near by |
| CTI | Comité technique Inria | |
| CUMIR | Commission "Utilisateurs des moyens informatiques Recherche" Inria | |
| CVEC | Contribution Vie Étudiante et de Campus | New fee foreign students will have to pay, see https://www.campusfrance.org/en/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-student-and-campus-life-contribution-cvec |
| DCR | Directeur ou directrice de centre recherche | |
| DFG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | German National Funding Agency for Research https://www.dfg.de/ |
| DG | Direction Générale | Inria's Management Team https://intranet.inria.fr/Inria/Directions/Direction-generale |
| DGD | Direction Générale Déléguée | Inria's High-level management team https://intranet.inria.fr/Inria/Directions |
| DGD-S | Directeur ou directrice général(e) délégué(e) à la science | |
| DP | ? something having to do with accounting | |
| DR | Directeur de recherche (Research Director) | The grade equivalent to full professor at Inria and CNRS. |
| DS | Délégué Scientifique | Scientific director of the CRI (Currently Dominique Chapelle for Saclay) |
| DSI | Direction des systèmes d'information | The people in charge of computer security and dealing with phishing emails, among other things. |
| DSA | Délégué Scientifique Adjoint | Adjunct Scientific Director of the CRI (Currently Sylvie Boldo for Saclay) |
| DRH | Direction des Ressources Humaines | Head of human resources |
| DU | Directeur d'Unité | Directory/head of any research unit like lab, project-team, department, etc. |
| ED | École Doctorale | Doctoral school, PhD students are affiliated to one Doctoral School, at Aviz, usually the CS ED of Université Paris-Sud (soon Paris-Saclay). |
| ENS Paris Saclay | École Normale Supérieure de Saclay (formerly Cachan) | Prestigious research center, merging with Univ. Paris Saclay. Has joint teams with Inria. http://ens-paris-saclay.fr/ |
| ENSTA | École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées | Engineering school located on the Polytechnique Campus. Has one joint team with Inria (Poems). http://www.ensta-paristech.fr/ |
| EPC | Equipe Project Commune | An EPI (see below) that has dual affiliation (or more), e.g. with a university. |
| EPI | Equipe Project Inria | A project team like Aviz or Ilda |
| EPST | Établissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique | Administrative status of Inria and other research organizations in France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Scientific_and_Technical_Research_Establishment |
| ERC | European Research Council | Generally used to refer to ERC grants. |
| FDSO | Faculté de Sciences d'Orsay | The faculty of Science of the Université Paris-Saclay. |
| FET | Future and Emerging Technologies | First part of the names several European funding programs https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/future-and-emerging-technologies-fet-open |
| GEF | Gestion des EFfectifs | Database of Inria-related staff https://gef.inria.fr/ |
| GRH | Gestionnaire des Ressources Humaines | |
| GT | groupe de travail | Generic term, can be applied to any working group |
| HAL | Hyper Articles on Line | An archive for all publications funded by France https://hal.inria.fr/ |
| HDR | Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches | Qualifying exam for MdC and CR to be able to apply to become Full Professor at a French University or Directeur de Recherche at a French EPST |
| IES | Information et Edition Scientifique | Scientific documentation service |
| IGN | French National Institute of Géography (Instititut Géographique National) | It produces all the maps of France, and maintain all the cartographic information about France and many parts of the world. If you type https://ign.fr in your browser, it will show-up. |
| INRAe | Institut de Recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement | Research Institute in Agronomy (food and biology) http://www.inrae.fr/, used to be INRA and confused with Inria |
| Inria | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique | That's where we work! But it's not an acronym anymore, so "INRIA" is outdated and we're supposed to use "Inria". https://www.inria.fr/ |
| IPP | Institut polytechnique de Paris | Merge of École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic_Institute_of_Paris |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board |
| ISFP | Inria Starting Faculty Position | Assistant prof. from Inria but not civil servant, see https://www.inria.fr/en/inria-starting-faculty-position-isfp |
| ITA | Ingénieurs, techniciens et personnels administratifs | Support people at Inria (and in other similar organizations), i.e., non researchers. |
| LISN | Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique | CS department of Paris-Saclay University (although there is also the LMF) |
| LIX | Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'X | CS department of École Polytechnique (a.k.a l'X), located in the Turing building, has joint Inria teams https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/ |
| LRI | Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique | Former (before 01/01/2021) CS department of Univ. Paris-Sud and Paris-Saclay. Has joint Inria teams. https://www.lri.fr |
| MdC or MCF' | Maître de Conférences | Assistant Professor in France. |
| MESRI | Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation | Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation |
| MODOP | Mode opératoire, modus operandi | |
| OA | Open Access | Publication that can be accessed freely online. |
| ODJ | Ordre du jour | Agenda |
| PDG | président-directeur général | The head of Inria |
| PEDR | Prime d’encadrement doctoral et de recherche | Bonus given for 4 years to deserving researchers who agree to teach 64 hours a year in addition to their research, or to deserving professors who teach anyway. |
| PEPR | new mechanism for organizing and funding national research projects | https://anr.fr/en/france-2030/programmes-et-equipements-prioritaires-de-recherche/, they are thematic, funded through ANR, and Inria is in charge of a few of these thematic projects. This one would be dedicated to those twin cities, digital replicas of existing cities. |
| PLF | Projet de Loi de Finance | Provisional Budget of France. |
| PME | Petite et moyenne entreprise | |
| PRE | Projet de recherche exploratoire | |
| PUI | Projet Universitaire d'Inovation | |
| PV | Procès Verbal | Minutes |
| PVI | Procès Verbal d'Installation | Paper signed when you start at Inria |
| RAWEB | Rapport d'Activité Web | See raweb.inria.fr |
| REPI or REP | Responsable d'Equipe Projet Inria | A team leader |
| RH | Ressources Humaines | Human resources |
| RSSI | Responsable de la Sécurité du Système d'Information | A person responsible for the security of our info systems |
| RTT | Réduction du Temps de Travail | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9duction_du_temps_de_travail_en_France |
| SAER | Service des Assistantes d'Equipe de Recherche | Manages the AERs |
| SAF | Service Administratif et Financier | Direction of finances (they manage our budget) |
| SED | Service d'Expérimentation et de Développement | You can ask them an engineer for a limited time to help you. |
| SD | Service des dépenses ? | Also see SMD. |
| SDG | ? | Has something to do with Inria. May be the same as SG below |
| SG | Service Généraux | Call them when you need to move stuff around, have a white board, fix something. Use https:://helpdesk.inria.fr |
| SGPI | bureau of the prime ministry in charge of overseeing these research funding plans | https://www.gouvernement.fr/secretariat-general-pour-l-investissement-sgpi |
| SI | système d'information | Data management system |
| SIC | Service Informatique Commun | Computer support. Contact them through https:://helpdesk.inria.fr |
| SMD | Service Mutualisé des Dépenses | They pay what we order and reimburse our missions. Also see SD. |
| SMGRH | ||
| SRH | Service des Resources Humaines | Human Resource Department at Inria |
| SRP | Starting Research Position | Inria position, up to 3 years, for starting researchers. |
| STIP | Service Transfert, Innovation et Partenariats | Tech Transfer and in charge of contracts |
| TD | Travaux dirigés | Labs in contrast to Courses |
| TER | ?? recherche | A type of research project course that gives 5 ECTS (credits) |
| TP | Travaux pratiques | Even more applied Labs than TD, hands-on teaching sessions |
| UE | Unité d'Enseignement | = a course for students |
| UEVE | University of Évry Val d'Essonne | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_%C3%89vry_Val_d%27Essonne |
| UVSQ | Université de Versailles à Saint Quentin | University of Versailles now part of Paris Saclay http://www.uvsq.fr/ |