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MSCA Meet-Up

  • June 2025: Online training over 2 half-days on putting together and writing proposals
  • July – August 2025: Support in writing proposals and preparing applications
  • 11 September 2025: Deadline for submitting applications
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Inserm

Newsletter – 28th April – Open in a browser

Headlines: ‘Clinical trials: when the method changes everything’, with Karolin Krause from CRESS

Funding :

  • France-Mexico collaboration The Ministries for Europe and Research fund missions for researchers (up to 15 days), internships for doctoral students (30 to 45 days), as well as transport and accommodation costs for French researchers and doctoral students travelling to Mexico. And vice versa for Mexican researchers. Application deadline: 2 May. Find out more (pdf)

 

  • France-Uruguay cooperation: The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Research support scientific cooperation between France and Uruguay. Deadline for applications: 15 May. For more information (pdf)

 

  • PEPR Organ and organoid chips The PEPR Organ and Organoid on a Chip programme supports projects aimed at developing the next generation of these devices for personalised medicine and precision medicine. The aim is to offer alternatives to conventional animal and in vitro models. This call for proposals will fund multidisciplinary consortia up to €2.5 million. Deadline for applications: 27 May. Find out more

 

  • End of life : The Interdisciplinary Research Programme on the End of Life, funded by Inserm via its Health Research Programmes Agency, supports research into palliative care, support and the end of life. The programme aims to set up interdisciplinary consortia around two themes: suffering and the end-of-life experience, and anticipating end-of-life issues. The call for applications is open to French researchers and research teams, with seed funding of between €500,000 and €800,000 for each consortium. Deadline for applications: 10 June. Find out more

 

  • France-Peru collaboration – The Ministries for Europe and Research are providing funding for visits to Peru: trips by researchers (up to 15 days) and internships for doctoral students (15 to 60 days). The programme covers travel and accommodation costs. Application deadline: 12 June. Find out more

 

  • Cancer Grand Challenges: Funded by Cancer Research UK and the US National Cancer Institute, the Cancer Grand Challenges consist of 7 challenges in cancer research. Applicants from international and interdisciplinary consortia will be eligible for funding of up to $25 million over 5 years. Application deadline: 18 June Find out more

 

  • Ageing : The Chaffoteaux Foundation is awarding eight €15,000 prizes to young scientists (Masters 2, doctoral and post-doctoral students) for their research into ageing.Deadline for applications: 20 June. Find out more

 

  • International collaborations: young researchers – The International Springboard (First Step) programme provides €10,000 to support the emergence of collaborations between young Inserm researchers and foreign research teams. For applicants wishing to submit a collaborative project with the United States or Canada, the Inserm North America office is organising a webinar on 12 May, with an application deadline of 23 June. More

 

  • International collaborations: strengthening existing partnerships – The International Research Projects (IRP) call is aimed at Inserm researchers involved in scientific collaborations with one or more foreign teams. It aims to consolidate these partnerships by providing support of between €60,000 (Europe) and €75,000 (outside Europe) over five years. Application deadline: 30 June.more

 

  • Franco-German collaboration: The French Ministries for Europe and Higher Education and the German Ministry of Education are supporting Franco-German research collaboration by covering the costs associated with the mobility of researchers between France and Germany.Deadline for applications: 2 July.Find out more

 

  • Ligue contre le cancer – Call for projects 2026 – The Ile-de-France departmental committees of the Ligue contre le cancer are continuing their support for cancer research. The 2026 call for projects is now open: grant applications can be submitted online from 2 April 2025 on the Ligue’s website. The deadline for submitting paper applications is 9 July 2025. To find out more

 

  • Inserm-JSPS collaboration: Inserm and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) are launching a call for proposals for a joint life and health sciences seminar in Japan in 2026. Deadline for applications: 15 September. More

 

  • Inserm-NSTC collaboration (Taiwan) : Inserm and the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) are providing €10,000 in funding for stays of up to 12 months to discover the Taiwanese research landscape and encourage collaborations. The two organisations are also providing €12,000 for workshops.Deadline for applications: 15 September. Read on Inserm pro

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FUNDING FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Cure Parkinson’s – Quarterly Research Grant Funding Programme

Cure Parkinson’s is a patient-led charity which aims to fund and facilitate research into finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Funding is available for laboratory and clinical research projects that could lead to therapies that modify the disease, by slowing, halting or reversing its progression. Priority is given to research that is likely to translate into clinical solutions within five years, including clinical trials and preclinical studies, as well as any other area that supports or accelerates these trials. Applications can be submitted on a rolling basis, with several application deadlines.

  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in France and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Korea – Artificial Intelligence for Biotechnology 2025

The ‘ANR – NRF Artificial Intelligence for Biotechnology 2025’ call for projects is a joint initiative of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in France and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Korea. This call aims to promote collaborative projects between French and Korean researchers to develop applications of artificial intelligence in the field of biotechnology. Projects may include themes such as bioinformatics, genomics, personalised medicine, precision agriculture and drug discovery.

 

  • Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie – IntenSciF 2025 call for proposals

The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) IntenSciF 2025 call for proposals aims to accelerate innovative collaborative projects with strong scientific and societal potential. This programme offers springboard funding and personalised support to help consortia develop ambitious proposals aimed at European, international or national agencies. Projects must be led by members of the AUF network, with at least one partner in an emerging or developing country, and must meet quality, steering, consortium and results criteria. Eligible proposals must be innovative, collaborative, responsible and inclusive, and must be submitted via the AUF platform before 10 May 2025. The selected projects will receive financial support of €30,000 and support for a maximum of 18 months, with the projects scheduled to start in September 2025.

 

  • Institut National du Cancer (INCa) – AGIR-SP 2025 – Support for studies, experiments and actions aimed at better integrating cancer prevention, screening and early detection into health and care pathways

The French National Cancer Institute’s (INCa) AGIR en Santé Publique 2025 call for projects aims to support public health initiatives to improve prevention, screening and the personalisation of cancer care pathways. The projects supported include smoking prevention, economic modelling of prevention strategies, evaluation of screening methods, and improving care pathways for people with intellectual disabilities.

 

  • Association Observatoire B2V des Mémoires – Call for applications for a 2025 doctoral scholarship

The B2V Memory Observatory is launching a call for applications for a doctoral scholarship intended to finance an innovative thesis on memory, thus contributing to a deeper understanding of memory and associated means of prevention. This grant is open to students in Masters 2 or who have graduated in 2024, attached to a French research laboratory. Applicants must propose a multidisciplinary thesis project in the fields of neuroscience and human and social sciences.

 

  • European Innovation Council – EIC Pathfinder Open

The EIC Pathfinder Open call for projects, launched by the European Innovation Council, supports innovative and exploratory research in all fields of science and technology, including health. It aims to fund the early stages of development of future technologies (TRL 1/4) without predefined themes, with grants of up to €3 to 4 million per project. Projects must be led by a consortium of at least three entities from three different countries and demonstrate scientific excellence as well as the potential for significant societal and economic impact.

 

  • ANR – PEPR MED-OOC Call for ‘Organs and Organoids on a Chip’ projects

The ‘Organs and Organoids on a Chip’ (PEPR MED-OOC) call for projects aims to develop innovative models of organs and organoids on a chip (O&OoC) based on patient cells for personalised medicine. With a total budget of €15m, the selected projects will receive between €1m and €2.5m over a period of 3 to 4 years. Priority areas include the creation of ‘clinical twins’, the development of multi-organ models, and the integration of advanced sensor technologies. Projects must be submitted by 27 May 2025 and will be assessed by a committee of international experts. Beneficiaries include research organisations and higher education institutions, with the possibility of unfunded international and industrial partnerships.

  • Maximum budget allocated: €2,500,000
  • Project duration: 3 to 4 years
  • Deadline for submission: 27 May 2025 at 11am
  • Details of the call here

 

  • Fondation de France – AAP – Research into cardiovascular disease

The Fondation de France supports clinical and fundamental research projects focusing on a cardiovascular pathology that must be associated with a metabolic pathological context (diabetes, obesity, dyslipidaemia). The projects must contain a cardiovascular component and a metabolic component, but must also establish the link between the two. Particular attention will be paid to the inclusion of cohorts or in vivo approaches in the methodology used. Projects must have a maximum duration of 3 years. Funding will range from €40,000 to €100,000.

 

  • National Institutes of Health – NIH R01: Research Project

R01 is a type of research funding awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. It is a grant designed to support basic, applied or clinical research projects in all scientific fields, including biomedicine, public health, psychology, etc. R01 grants are generally awarded for long-term projects (up to 5 years) and are often used by researchers to establish innovative studies that produce significant results in their respective fields.

 

  • National Institutes of Health – NIH U01: Research Project – Cooperative Agreements

U01 funding is a type of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant specifically designed to support collaborative research projects. Unlike individual grants such as R01, which fund research carried out by a single researcher or team, U01 supports collaborative projects involving several researchers or institutions. These projects may involve basic, applied or clinical research, for large-scale initiatives or programmes that require the collaboration of several research teams. Funding is granted to support common objectives in the context of cooperation between researchers.

 

  • Fondation de France – Collaborative research on psychiatric illnesses

The Fondation de France’s call for projects ‘Collaborative research on psychiatric illnesses’ aims to support research into disabling psychiatric illnesses (with the exception of addictions, autism spectrum disorders and dementia), by encouraging collaboration between clinicians and researchers to develop innovative methods of prevention, early diagnosis and treatment. Projects must involve two separate teams, one clinical and the other research, from different sub-disciplines of neuroscience or human and social sciences and epidemiology. Funding is available for up to €200,000 over three years. Young researchers can also submit interdisciplinary or translational projects, with support of up to €100,000.

 

  • Société Française de Lutte Contre les Cancers et les Leucémies de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent (SFCE) – Call for projects 2025

The 2025 call for projects issued by the French Society for the Fight against Cancer and Leukaemia in Children and Adolescents (SFCE) aims to fund clinical, translational, structuring and fundamental research in the field of paediatric cancers. Projects must be submitted by 15 June 2025 and can receive between €10,000 and €60,000 per year over two years. The themes include multicentre clinical studies, innovative translational research projects, regional or national structuring programmes, and early fundamental research. Each project will be evaluated by experts, and the results will be announced in February 2026.

 

  • BPI France – France 2030 – Challenge prévention

Bpifrance’s ‘Challenge prévention’ call for projects aims to support innovative public health initiatives, integrating healthcare technologies and products to demonstrate their value in real-life conditions. Projects must target themes including the fight against infertility, child health, mental health, the prevention of loss of autonomy, chronic diseases, the promotion of health-promoting behaviour, vaccination and rare diseases, and include a protocol to prove the effectiveness of the innovations. The consortium submitting the application must include research or industrial partners.

 

  • European Commission- Horizon Europe: MSCA COFUND

MSCA COFUND aims to promote the international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of researchers. This programme funds doctoral and post-doctoral programmes in research institutions, in collaboration with public and private organisations. It enables researchers to benefit from funding opportunities to strengthen their skills, careers and professional networks.

 

  • PEPR SantéNum – Call for projects ‘Santé Num : Santé Numérique’ – 2024

The European Commission’s MSCA COFUND aims to promote the international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of researchers. This programme funds doctoral and post-doctoral programmes in research institutions, in collaboration with public and private organisations. It enables researchers to benefit from funding opportunities to strengthen their skills, careers and professional networks.

 

  • Wellcome Foundation – Mental Health Award – Leveraging Longitudinal Data to Transform Early Intervention in Mental Health

Wellcome’s Mental Health Award: Leveraging Longitudinal Data to Transform Early Intervention call for projects aims to fund projects that use existing longitudinal data to transform early identification and intervention in mental health. Projects should focus on anxiety, depression or psychosis, using advanced data analysis and experimental research to identify early indicators and improve interventions. Projects are expected to last 3 to 5 years and may involve the use of existing longitudinal data (cohorts, electronic medical records, etc.), innovative experimental research to validate early indicators, collaboration between multidisciplinary teams including experts in mental health and data science, and the integration of the expertise of people with lived experience of mental disorders.

 

  • Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale – ‘Espoirs de la Recherche’ (Hopes for Research) Programme – Launching Young Teams 2025

The Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) 2025 call for projects is aimed at young French or foreign researchers wishing to set up a new research team in France. The budget allocated is €2.7 million, with maximum funding of €450,000 per project, which can last up to three years. The aim of this support is to help emerging research groups to establish themselves before obtaining other funding. The call for projects is open from 24 February 2025, with several extensions, and depending on the budget available until 5 November 2025. Only one submission per institution is authorised by the Foundation for the FRM.

 

  • European Commission – MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

The European Commission’s MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call for proposals supports postdoctoral researchers wishing to develop new skills through advanced training and international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. Open to researchers of all nationalities, it offers two types of fellowship: European Postdoctoral Fellowships (12 to 24 months in an EU or associated country) and Global Postdoctoral Fellowships (24 to 36 months, with a phase abroad and a compulsory return to an EU or associated country). Applicants must comply with a mobility rule and not have been resident in the country of application for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. The call will be open from 9 April 2025 to 10 September 2025. Funding includes subsistence, mobility, family, leave and special needs allowances, as well as support for research activities and management costs.

 

  • Setting up European or International Scientific Networks 2025

The MRSEI programme run by the ANR was created to give scientists working in French laboratories the means to submit a research project as coordinator to collaborative European (Horizon Europe) or international calls for proposals, thus giving them the opportunity to develop ambitious interdisciplinary projects and boost their visibility at international level. Under this call for proposals, only proposals aimed at setting up a European or international scientific network, coordinated by a French team, are expected. These research networks set up under the MRSEI programme are required to apply to an ambitious European or international call for projects.

 

  • European Innovation Council – EIC Transition

EIC Transition, an integral part of Horizon Europe, supports innovation activities that go beyond laboratory proof of concept by offering grants of up to €2.5 million to validate and demonstrate new technologies in relevant environments. The programme targets SMEs, spin-offs and start-ups, as well as research organisations and universities, to help them mature their technologies and bring them closer to the market, while benefiting from additional innovation support and business acceleration services.

 

  • BPI France – France 2030 – Grand Défi: Digital Medical Devices in Mental Health

BPI France’s Grand Défi call for proposals on digital medical devices in mental health supports projects aimed at meeting medical needs in mental health and psychiatry. The themes include prevention, screening/diagnosis, treatment, and remote monitoring of mental health, addiction, and neurodevelopmental disorders using digital medical devices (DMN). Particular attention will be paid to projects addressing the specific needs of children, adolescents, and young adults in these areas.

 

  • Doctoral Funding: Cité du Genre – Call for Applications – Doctoral Contracts Cité du Genre

As part of the funding of doctoral contracts, the Cité du Genre aims to develop research themes that will allow gender issues to be addressed, within the strict framework of interdisciplinary co-supervision, from the intersecting perspectives of an SHS discipline and a discipline from the sciences or health. The three priority areas are:
– Gender and Environmental Issues
– Gender and Digital Technologies
– Gender, Health, and Public Policy.

 

RESEARCH PRIZES

  • French Academy of Sciences, Inria – AAC – Inria Grand Prize

Inria and the French Academy of Sciences reward a scientist who has made an exceptional contribution to the field of computer science and mathematics or who has been particularly active in the field of transfer and innovation in the field of computer science and mathematics with three prizes totaling €65,000:

– the Inria – French Academy of Sciences Grand Prize worth €25,000;

– the Inria – French Academy of Sciences – Dassault Systèmes Innovation Prize worth €20,000;

– the Inria – French Academy of Sciences Young Researchers Prize worth €20,000.

 

  • Academy of Sciences – AAC – IMT Hope Prize

The Academy of Sciences awards the IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) Hope Prize – Academy of Sciences, worth €10,000. This prize is awarded to a scientist under 40 years of age on January 1 of the year in which the prize is awarded, who has contributed, through a major innovation, to advancing issues arising from the industrial or business world, in the service of a sustainable economy, in one of the following scientific and technological fields:

– Responsible industry of the future;

– Digital sovereignty and sobriety;

– Energy, circular economy and society;

– Engineering for health and well-being.

 

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Newsletter: Call for projects

“Dear Sir or Madam,

Following today’s announcement by Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, Forests, the Sea, and Fisheries, in the presence of Anne-Cécile Violland, Member of Parliament for Haute-Savoie, we are pleased to launch a new round of the call for projects dedicated to environmental health research. This initiative is led by Green Data for Health (GD4H), the General Commission for Sustainable Development (CGDD), and the Health Data Hub (HDH).

For this edition, two new themes are proposed:

  • Theme 1 – Environmental Exposure and Health: Impacts of Chemical and Physical Pollutants Applied to the Following Areas:
    – Impact of Chemical Pollutants;
    – Impact of Physical Pollutants (Noise, Light Pollution, etc.).
  • Theme 2 – Climate change and health: adaptation of living environments, sleep disorders, and mental health applied to the following areas:
    – Adaptation of living environments, such as climate factors in health or spatial adaptation strategies;
    – Sleep disorders and mental health, through the impact of nighttime temperatures on sleep, or eco-anxiety and risk perception.

Up to four projects will be selected and will receive technical, human, and financial support of up to €135,000 from the GD4H, the CGDD, and the HDH, for the implementation of the project over a period of 18 months.

The deadline for submitting applications is May 30, 2025, at 9 p.m. I’m applying
To learn more, a webinar presenting the call for projects and the application will be held on May 6, 2025, at 12 p.m.
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You can also find all the information you need to apply here.

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