Climate change and Energetic transition : Impacts for Defence – Call for expressions of interest - 2023

The French National Research Agency (ANR), in collaboration with the French Defence Innovation Agency (AID), is launching the call for expression of interest “Climate change and Energetic transition : Impacts for Defence”. Applicants are invited to submit proposals to enhance knowledge about climate change and energy transition and their implications for Defence for one or more of these priorities:

• Scarcity of natural resources

• Man resiliency and technology resistance up to extreme conditions 

• New missions of armies

• Environment suitable tools

• Study Case: A world with few natural resources

No grant will be provided under this call for expression of interest. However, depending on the responses received, calls for projects on those thematics may be launched in a second phase.

Requirements

Proposals must account for both civilian and military benefits. Proposals can cover a range of TRL contained between 1 and 6.