8th Call of the CHIST-ERA ERA-NET

The ANR participates in the 8^th call of the CHIST-ERA ERA-NET consortium (European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in ICST), bringing together 19 European countries. The call announcement can be found under Call 2017 on the official CHIST-ERA website: www.chistera.eu

In this call, two new and emerging topics of ICST domain are addressed, namely:

1. Object recognition and manipulation by robots: Data sharing and experiment reproducibility (ORMR)
2. Big data and process modelling for smart industry (BDSI)

The aim of the call is to support highly innovative, international and multidisciplinary transformative research projects in ICST domain with potential for significant scientific and technical impacts.

A two-step submission process applies. Applicants are invited to submit a pre-proposal and, if selected in the first step, to submit a full proposal. At both stages of the application, the coordinator prepares a joint proposal (pre-proposal or full proposal), in English, for the whole consortium, respecting the format and modalities mentioned on http://www.chistera.eu/call-2017-annoucement

For projects selected for funding, each partner of the consortium will be funded directly by its respective national funding organisation. Therefore, all national regulations apply. In particular, the French applicants must read the document entitled “Modalités de participation pour les participants” available on this page.