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CIRAD sets up a Research Impact and Marketing Service (DIMS) Building CIRAD’s impact capacity in four areas With the DIMS, CIRAD aims to better align its day-to-day activities with its strategic priorities at the operational level, to boost its reputation among decision-makers and official development assistance policymakers, to strengthen its strategic partnerships with leading national and international actors in the field of scientific cooperation for development in the global South and, finally, to more effectively mobilize the human and financial resources needed to achieve the four goals that are central to its strategic vision. Since 1 January 2020, the Service has been structured around three divisions: • Impact and knowledge of donor strategies..
In January 2019, CIRAD created the Research Impact and Marketing Service (DIMS), under the Office of the Director General in charge of Research and Strategy (DGD-RS). The objective of the DIMS is to align CIRAD’s scientific activities with societal demands and especially with the operational demands of donors and contracting bodies.
• Private partnerships and innovation transfer and development. • Research and development project engineering.
Providing personalized support to teams This support covers all components of the construction process for CIRAD’s scientific and partnership activities, as well as knowledge and dialogue with all actors involved (public and private donors, companies). Specifically, it entails: > Optimizing the engineering of all CIRAD’s contract projects, throughout their life cycle.
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From left to right: Lisa Blangy, Head of Private Partnerships and Innovation Transfer and Development; Alain Billand, Manager; Christelle Monier, Head of Research and Development Project Engineering; Sloan Saletes, Deputy Manager. Absent from the photo, Thierry Giordano, Head of Impact and Knowledge of Donor Strategies.
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2019 CIRAD Activities Report
