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Going beyond this commitment, the CNRS has a genuine responsibility to ensure scientific research and innovation serves the cause of sustainable progress for the benefit of society as a whole.</p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-entity-block field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="block-description"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-descriptive field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="tex2jax_process"><h2>The CNRS's challenges</h2> <p>From exploring living beings, space and matter to the study of human societies, the CNRS is committed to leveraging all the fields of science to shed light on and gain insight into current global challenges in all their complexity.</p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"><article class="entity-block content-link"> <div class="content-view"> <a 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