Nine French-Japanese proposals have been selected within the framework of the ANR Flash (*) call "Great Tohoku Earthquake". This call had been open from June 17th to July 18th, 2011, following the major earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11th March 2011; it was coordinated with the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) in order to strengthen the...

In the framework of the ANR-NSF collaboration in the fields of chemistry and materials, two French-American calls for proposals will be launched in the Blanc International I programme which will open at the beginning of October and close at the end of January. ANR's and NSF's programme schedules are different. The MWN and ICC calls for proposals of the NSF are already...

L’ANR depuis sa création soutient fortement des programmes de recherche académiques ou finalisés en partenariat public-privé dans les domaines des nouvelles technologies de l’énergie et de l’efficacité énergétique. Sur la période 2005-2010 493 projets ont été soutenus, représentant 430 M€ d’aide, ce qui a amplifié très significativement l’effort de recherche national...

Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common form of epilepsy in adults. It usually appears after some form of trauma to the brain, such as head injury or an infection like meningitis. In the framework of the projects ANTARES and MINOS funded by the ANR, Christophe Bernard, Head of Research at Inserm, and his team in Marseille (Inserm Unit 751 “Epilepsy and Cognition”),...