2-1) Mission
The missions are as follows:
• Evaluating research organizations and institutions, research and higher education institutions,
scientific cooperation foundations and institutions as well as the French National Research
Agency by taking account of all their missions and activities.
• Evaluating the research activities conducted by the research units of the aforementioned
organizations and institutions, which the Agency either does directly or with the support of the
research organizations and institutions according to procedures that it has approved.
• Evaluating the programs and degrees of higher education institutions.
• Approving the staff evaluation procedures of research organizations and institutions and giving
its opinion on the conditions under which these are implemented. Note that this concerns an
evaluation of procedures and not of the staff themselves.