About CWI-Inria

CWI-Inria: a Franco-Dutch cooperation in digital science and technology

A long-term reliable partnership

In pursuance to the successful partnership between Inria and CWI launched in July 2016 by the foundation of the CWI-Inria International Laboratory (the “CWI-Inria Lab”), then renewed in 2020, the Parties are both eager to lead research and innovation of digital science and technology at a national and European level. They share the same vision driven by the scientific, technological, industrial and societal impacts of its research activities with a focus on their two common pillars that are the research and national roles in the mathematics and computer sciences communities.

Inria and CWI are therefore committed to significantly increase their collaboration and to structure and formalize their partnership. Amongst various approaches, this can be by e.g. fostering joint research projects and teams, contributing to researchers’ mobility, fostering development activities of mutual interest and benefit, in the area(s) listed below, in accordance with their respective needs and objectives.

Both institutions wish to cooperate, within the framework of a joint strategic research and innovation agenda, notably in the following main areas: cryptography, digital health, energy, human interaction, machine learning, quantum and software engineering.

The cooperation on these issues will help building a society for a united and inclusive digital Europe, with a strong societal impact based on European sovereignty.

Inria and CWI signed On April 12 2023, in the presence of Ministers Retailleau and Dijkgraaf, a strategic partnership to extend their cooperation.

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