Along with its partners from the Joint Programming Initiative “FACCE”, the French National Research Agency will launch a call for European projects on sustainable and resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems. This European initiative entitled “FACCE SURPLUS” gathers 14 countries. The call is expected to open on January 7, 2015.

In an international context of researcher mobility, "Hosting high-level researchers" is a new funding instrument that aims to enhance France’s attractiveness by offering top foreign researchers excellent hosting conditions at French research institutions. The first round resulted in the selection of 28 world class researchers who will be carrying out projects...

The Philae robot lander is currently exploring the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. On board the spacecraft is the COSAC device, whose mission is to analyze the chemistry of certain organic compounds in the comet’s core – compounds that may help to unlock the secrets of how life began on earth. This device and the analyses it will be carrying out are related to research...

Launched in March 2014, the DEVHOM study aims at acquiring knowledge on the socialisation and identity development of children who are currently growing up in same-sex parent families, subjects as yet little explored in France. The scientists who initiated this study, which is funded jointly by ANR and the CNAF (French National Family Fund), are currently seeking...