Institutional information

Institutional information

EC – Horizon Europe

HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-13-01: Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases – GACD). Deadline : November 26

HORIZON-HLTH-2024-CARE-14-01: Pre-commercial procurement for environmentally sustainable, climate neutral and circular health and care systems. Deadline : November 26 novembre

  • European Commission – AAP MSCA Staff exchanges 2024

The Staff Exchanges (SE) action of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program funds collaborative projects aimed at fostering international, intersectoral (between the academic and non-academic sectors) and interdisciplinary collaboration through staff exchanges as part of a joint research and innovation project. All research and innovation themes are eligible.

  • Application deadline: February 5, 2025
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Inserm

Newsletter – November – Open in a browser

Headlines: Preventing psychosocial risks: focus on teleworking

Financing:

  • Fundamental cancer research. The Fondation Tourre supports fundamental cancer research by funding
  • the work of post-doctoral students. The Fondation Tourre-Paris Descartes grant is worth
  • of €60,000. The Fondation Tourre-Institut Necker prize is worth €15,000.
  • Application deadline: November 12.
  • The Healthy Services, Interventions and Policies program of the Institut pour la recherche en santé publique provides funding (from €50,000 to €250,000) for research projects designed to inform public policy. Application deadline: November 18.
  • Inserm and the Canadian agency Mitacs provide funding for doctoral and post-doctoral students to spend one to two years in France and Canada. Applications submitted within the framework of projects institutionally supported by Inserm are examined with particular attention.
  • Application deadline: November 20. Read more
  • The Bioproduction (B-BEST) research program of France 2030 finances the mobility of scientists (€1,000 to €6,000) wishing to develop projects related to the characterization and processing of biomass and industrial biotechnologies.
  • Application deadline: November 28. Read more
  • Inserm supports the acquisition of semi-heavy and heavy equipment for cancer research. Application deadline: November 29. To find out more
  • Inserm invites researchers to take part in working and exchange meetings during January 2025, to bring out future collaborations within the framework of the Health Cluster 2025 calls. Registration deadline: November 29. Read more
  • French-Korean collaboration. The French Embassy in the Republic of Korea finances the mobility of French researchers wishing to collaborate with South Korea. Application deadline: December 1.
  • The GIS FC3R provides funding of up to €50,000 for projects designed to replace, totally or partially, the use of animals in scientific research.
  • Application deadline: December 2. Read more
  • Inserm supports oncology research projects that combine mathematics and computer science to explore new therapeutic perspectives. The full text of the call for projects is available. Application deadline: December 19. Read more
  • As part of an international collaboration, the NIH (USA) is launching a call for expressions of interest (AMI) for comparative research on alcohol consumption and its impact on health. In 2025, this AMI will lead to a call for Inserm-Iresp projects. Application deadline: January 4, 2025. Read more

Université Paris Cité

Research News – Thursday, November 7, 2024 – click here

Headlines: UPCité and UM6P launch first call for joint projects

FUNDING FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • France-Canada Research Fund (FCRF) – “New Research Collaborations” program

The France-Canada Research Fund is a flagship instrument for Franco-Canadian scientific cooperation, created in 2000 by the French Embassy in Canada and a consortium of 23 Canadian universities. The “New Research Collaborations” program provides funding for new scientific projects developed jointly by French and Canadian teams who have never worked together before. The program supports the mobility of researchers to strengthen new research partnerships between institutions in both countries. The CRRF call for projects is launched every year. It is open to all fields of research, and encourages interdisciplinary projects in line with priority themes common to both countries.

  • Allocated budget: CA$8,000 to $15,000
  • Application deadline: November 18, 2024
  • Application procedures and prerequisites here
  • MEAE/MESR – PHC FASIC 2025 Program

The French Embassy in Australia is setting up new instruments to encourage research and teaching collaboration between France and Australia, under the aegis of the PHC FASIC Program. This program acts as a catalyst and aims to support the launch and development of bilateral projects at their critical seed stage. It also aims to support the strategic development of science and technology collaboration. The 2025 edition aims to support the establishment of scientific and academic networks between France and Australia, and to initiate joint research laboratories. It supports teacher exchanges to foster academic links (exchanges of teaching expertise, setting up double degrees, etc.). The Fasic program comprises two support components.

  • Deadline for submission: November 20, 2024
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • WRF – AAP – The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for Water Resources Planning (5290)

The WRF Water Research Foundation funds projects whose objectives are to identify the potential uses and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in water resources planning, and to identify potential challenges, pathways and approaches to the implementation of AI tools in water resources planning. The maximum funding available from WRF is $175,000 for a project duration of between 12 and 18 months from the contract start date.

  • Ambassade de France au Japon – Japan Exploration Program

The Exploration Japan Program is a funding program run by the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in Japan, aimed at researchers from French institutions. The aim of this program is to enable researchers in France wishing to establish initial contact with Japanese research teams in their fields of expertise to initiate new Franco-Japanese collaborations. The call for projects is open to all scientific fields, including the humanities and social sciences.

  • Deadline for submission: November 22, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
  • Details of the call here
  • European Commission – European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the challenges facing European healthcare systems in detecting, preventing, combating and managing infectious disease outbreaks in a coordinated way. The European Commission is therefore issuing a call for projects aimed at strengthening EU pandemic preparedness through the establishment of a partnership that promotes the coordination and alignment of research and innovation efforts to enable the prioritization of research responses in the event of a health crisis.

  • Duration: 10-year partnership in two phases
  • Overall budget: €50 million
  • Submission deadline: November 26, 2024
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • European Commission (GACD) – Implementation Research for Management of Multiple Long-Term Conditions in the Context of Non-Communicable Diseases

The European Commission is a member of GACD, an alliance of international funding agencies representing over 80% of global funding for public health research, and the first collaboration of its kind to focus specifically on non-communicable diseases. The call for projects focuses on implementation research for the management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of NCDs in low-income countries and/or disadvantaged populations in high-income countries.

  • Submission deadline: November 26, 2024
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024

MSCA Doctoral Networks projects aim to develop the transferable skills, creative potential, entrepreneurial spirit and innovation of doctoral students to open up career prospects in the academic and non-academic world, and train a new generation of researchers capable of meeting current and future challenges in a specific field. To achieve this, doctoral students benefit from research training at both individual and network levels.

  • Ten-year cancer strategy 2021-2030 – Equipment for cancer research

The Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) is a French public body dedicated to health research. It conducts fundamental and applied research to understand and treat human diseases, contributing to medical advances and improved public health. INSERM has published its call for projects for “equipment for cancer research”, which aims to enable the acquisition of semi-heavy or heavy equipment essential to the development of ambitious research projects in the field of cancer, to encourage interaction between teams, and to strengthen the attractiveness and position of French teams on the international scene.

  • Deadline for submission: November 29, 2024 at 5 p.m.
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • Biocodex Microbiota Foundation (BMF) – International Grant

Since 2017, The Biocodex Microbiota Foundation has been rewarding international research projects focusing on the human gut microbiota in relation to health and disease. Each year, the call for projects focuses on a specific theme chosen by a committee of independent international scientists. With this grant, the Foundation aims to support doctors, PhDs and Pharm Ds working in fields such as gastroenterology, pediatrics, microbiology, infectious diseases and internal medicine and based anywhere in the world.

  • Duration: 1 to 3 years
  • Deadline for submission: November 29, 2024
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • European Commission – EBRAINS Open Calls for Researchers

EBRAINS is a collaborative European digital research infrastructure that improves and accelerates progress in neuroscience and brain health. Through this open call, new data and workflows will be integrated into EBRAINS to improve existing services and tools, thereby fostering innovation and collaboration, equal opportunities and, ultimately, accelerating progress in neuroscience and brain health.

  • Allocated budget: €60,000 maximum
  • Deadline for submission: December 02, 2024 at 2 p.m.
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • Institut National du Cancer – Multi-thematic and multidisciplinary research: limiting after-effects and improving quality of life

INCa’s SEQ program supports research projects on the after-effects of cancer and its treatment. The program aims to address a priority set out in the French government’s ten-year cancer strategy (2021-2030), namely limiting after-effects and improving quality of life for cancer patients. Projects can focus on children, adolescents/young adults and adults on several themes detailed in the call.

  • Duration: 24-36-48 months
  • Deadline for submission: December 2, 2024
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale – Espoirs de la Recherche AMORÇAGE DE JEUNES EQUIPES

In 2024, the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale is renewing its call for projects aimed at young French or foreign researchers wishing to join a research structure in France to set up and lead a new research team. The aim of this call for projects is to provide essential initial support for setting up an emerging research group, before other funding is obtained.

  • Duration: 3 years
  • Budget: €450,000
  • Deadline for submissions: December 3, 2024 (last relief)
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • Rare Disease Foundation/AVAC – Research on Chordoma

The Fondation Maladies Rares and AVAC have launched a joint call for projects to support innovative, transdisciplinary research on chordoma. Projects from any discipline related to biomedicine or patient care are welcome, and research can be basic, translational or clinical. Through this call, the organizations intend to support any research that will contribute to understanding the pathophysiology of chordomas, improve diagnosis or develop better treatment options and/or therapeutic strategies.

  • Duration: 24 months
  • Budget: €40,000
  • Deadline for submission: December 5, 2024
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • Wellcome Trust – Mental Health Award – Accelerating Scalable Digital Mental Health Interventions

The Wellcome Trust is an independent foundation that seeks to improve health by supporting researchers in tackling major health challenges. The Mental Health Award – Accelerating Scalable Digital Mental Health Interventions aims to fund research to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis through the evaluation and development of scalable digital interventions.

  • Budget: £3 to 7M per project
  • Submission deadline: December 5, 2024
  • Details of the call here
  • PNR EST – AAP on the theme Environment-health-work – Letter of intent

This annual call for projects aims to support multidisciplinary projects on the theme of Environment-Health-Work. The program focuses on the assessment and analysis of environmental risks to human health, both in the general population and in the workplace. It will also support projects relating to ecosystem risks and environmental quality. Two types of proposals are expected: feasibility studies financed to the tune of €50,000 for a maximum duration of two years, and complete projects financed to the tune of €40,000 to €200,000 maximum for durations of 2 to 3 years.

  • Inserm – AAP PCSI

The Institut Thématique Multi-Organisme du Cancer of the French National Alliance for Health and Life Sciences is offering a recurrent call for projects, aimed at funding projects based on concepts or tools from physics, chemistry or engineering sciences that will generate scientific and technological advances in cancer research. The aim is to gain a better understanding of cancer diseases and improve patient prognosis by enabling significant advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of oncogenesis. This call welcomes interdisciplinary projects in several fields.

  • Inserm – AAP Contributions of mathematics and informatics to oncology (MIC)

This year, Inserm is funding projects whose aim is to develop, or validate under experimental conditions, new concepts, models or methods in mathematics and digital sciences that will lead to scientific advances in oncology. Projects should have a concrete impact on oncology in the short to medium term (< 8 years).

  • ADEME – Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) projects

ADEME funds RDI projects submitted directly to it outside the scope of the AAP, provided that the research targeted by these projects does not cover scientific fronts covered by competitive calls for projects issued by ADEME or other research funders. The eligibility of projects not covered by competitive calls for projects is judged on a case-by-case basis. Grants under this scheme are capped at €300,000 per project.

  • AAP DE RECHERCHE MSA 2025 Letter of intent – phase 1

The Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) is launching its annual call for projects to fund research projects conducted by French scientific laboratories in all disciplines in the fields of health and social protection for rural and agricultural populations. Projects are funded for a maximum of 2 years. Maximum funding is €120k.

FUNDING DEDICATED TO MOBILITY

  • Franco-Bavarian research and teaching partnerships

Would you like to undertake a cooperative research project with a partner from a Bavarian university? Or organize teaching exchanges? BayFrance finances cooperation projects between higher education establishments in France and Bavaria through mobility grants for both research and teaching cooperation.

  • MOPGA 2025

MOPGA 2025 funds researchers working on the following themes: earth system sciences, climate change and sustainability sciences, energy transition, societal challenges of environmental issues, as well as human, animal and environmental health as defined within the framework of the One Health approach. Foreign researchers who have held a doctorate for less than 5 years may apply for this call for projects. All nationalities are eligible except French.

FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

  • AAC – Cotutelle internationale de thèse

A cotutelle de thèse is a training project enabling a doctoral student to carry out his or her research work under the joint supervision of two thesis directors in different countries, and to obtain a degree in the two institutions concerned. This scheme promotes international attractiveness, international doctoral mobility, international cooperation and the internationalization of Université Paris Cité’s training programs.

  • ATIP-Avenir 2025

Since 2009, the ATIP-Avenir program, a partnership between Inserm and CNRS, has enabled young researchers to set up their own teams. It helps them set up within an Inserm or CNRS host structure, and funds their research work for five years. ATIP-Avenir is an internationally recognized label of excellence, and a benchmark for other funding sources such as the ERC.

  • Deadline for submission: November 13, 2024, 10am.
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • IRESP AAP Services, interventions et politiques favorables à la santé (SIP) 2025

This year, the scope of the call is structured around two major thematic axes and one specific axis:

  • Theme 1: Primary prevention and health promotion ;
  • Theme 2: Health services: organization and financing;
  • Specific theme 3: Prevention of infections and antibiotic resistance.

Projects must fall exclusively within the scope of the themes specified in each of the axes and as detailed in the text. The objectives of this call for projects (AAP) are resolutely geared towards informing public policy and evidence-based decision-making. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences, epidemiology, public health, and medical and paramedical sciences. It promotes multidisciplinarity and collaboration. This call for projects offers three types of support: 1) Support for pilot research projects; 2) Support for full-scale research projects; 3) Support for setting up a European project.

  • Deadline for submission: November 18, 2024, 12 noon.
  • Call terms and conditions here
  • Aviesan – ITMO CANCER

The equipment available in laboratories, and especially on research platforms, is crucial to understanding the mechanisms of cancer development. The aim of this call for proposals is to enable the acquisition of semi-heavy and heavy equipment in laboratories and research platforms, which is essential for the development of ambitious research projects in the field of cancer, to encourage interaction between teams and to strengthen the attractiveness and international standing of French teams in this field.

  • Deadline for submission: November 30, 2024.
  • Call terms and conditions here

RESEARCH PRIZES

  • Fondation Tourre – Institut Necker Prize

The Fondation TOURRE pour la recherche fondamentale contre le cancer (Tourre Foundation for Fundamental Cancer Research), recognized as a public utility by decree of the French Prime Minister dated February 9, 2010, aims to support fundamental cancer research, mainly by awarding grants to public research units for post-doctoral students, and by presenting an annual prize. The aim of this prize is to reward fundamental research work that has given rise to several high-level publications with implications for the field of cancerology.

  • Budget: €15,000.
  • Application deadline: midnight November 12, 2024.
  • For further information: click here
  • Fondation Tourre Scholarship – Paris Descartes

The Fondation TOURRE pour la recherche fondamentale contre le cancer (TOURRE Foundation for Fundamental Cancer Research), recognized as a public utility by decree of the French Prime Minister dated February 9, 2010, aims to support fundamental cancer research, mainly by awarding grants to public research units for post-doctoral students, and by granting an annual prize. These grants are awarded by our Scientific Advisory Board, made up of leading figures from the world of research and members of the Fondation TOURRE’s Board of Directors. It will be paid to the host laboratory to contribute exclusively to the remuneration of the awarded researcher.

  • Allocated budget: €60,000.
  • Application deadline: midnight November 12, 2024
  • Further information: click here
  • Letten Prize 2025

The Letten Foundation promotes basic research into congenital malformations and aspects of mental illness, with the aim of improving knowledge of brain structure and function. The prize is designed to reward young researchers from all disciplines whose work addresses major global challenges relating to health, development and the environment in all aspects of human life. Applications are invited from researchers worldwide under the age of 45 in the year the prize is awarded. The winner will receive NOK 2.5 million (approx. €212,000).

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