20 Years and One Thousand Projects on the Sea
The 20th ANR Handbook devoted to Ocean | Analysis, Evaluation and Impact of Funded Projects (2005–2024)
ANR Handbooks focus on issues that cut across the various calls for proposals funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of its Action Plan and France 2030. This collection, which has existed since 2009, provides perspective on the research, innovation, and advances within a specific field. They do not aim to be exhaustive, but rather revisit the societal issues and future challenges identified by research communities engaged with a particular topic. ANR Handbooks are intended for researchers, policymakers, and the general public. The 20th ANR Handbook will primarily focus on Oceans, and will present an overview of the many projects devoted to oceans, seas, and transitional waters that have been funded by the ANR since its creation in 2005.
This Ocean Handbook has the ambitious goal of presenting an impact study for project results—beyond publications for the scientific community—namely in crafting ocean policy and helping to develop the private sector via patent filings .
Explore the ANR’s Ocean Documentation
Since its creation in 2005, the ANR has supported national and international projects relating to oceans, covering a broad range of topics ranging from marine biodiversity to coral reef and polar ecosystems. […] This study spanning twenty years of research on oceans is a first step in exploring the impact of efforts co-funded by the ANR, and shows that scientific advances published internationally contribute to the reflections and orientation of national, European, and international public policy.
Claire Giry, President of the ANR
OCEAN Documentation | Analysis, overview and impact of funded projects (2005–2024) will be presented during a press conference held at the ANR headquarters on 27 May at 3:30 p.m., which can also be viewed online; and on 4 June during a town hall in connection with the OOSC, organized by ANR partners the CNRS and Ifremer. This session will highlight the role of public funding policy as tools for transforming marine science and implementing the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030).
Ocean Press Release (in french)
Analysis, overview, and impact of 20 years of support for ocean research (in french)
The programme for the One Ocean Science Congress
19 marine and maritime research topics up close
Coral reefs, the deep sea bed, fisheries, pollution from plastic or other contaminants: where does the research on these topics stand? What have been the major contributions of ANR-supported projects on French research in marine science? What are the significant results and advances? What remains to be discovered? In conjunction with the ANR’s Ocean Documentation, 19 experts provided their analysis for a selection of ANR projects, and identified priority research avenues calling for intensification or investment in the years to come. These scientific summaries are available online, as well as in English.
Explore the scientific summaries
Ocean research at the ANR in data
A little over a year ago, the ANR launched data.anr.fr, an interactive platform providing access to its open data that is available to laboratories, higher education and research institutions, public authorities, local and regional authorities, enterprises, and more broadly all stakeholders in higher education, research, and innovation. Complementing the raw data available at data.gouv.fr, data.anr.fr is an interactive platform offering a broad range of data sets associated with visualizations for the calls, programmes, and projects operated by the ANR, including data from the various editions of the Generical Call for Proposals, the ANR’s primary call; from France 2030, for which the ANR is the primary operator in the field of higher education and research; and in connection with specific subjects, such as AI, open science, Sustainable Development Goals, Scientific Women and Men, Science with and for Society, and Sports and the Olympic Games.
Explore all of the data and visualizations linked to funding for ocean research, including an overview of projects filtered by topic or edition, along with publications connected to projects.
Explore the ANR’s Ocean data and visualizations
Spotlight | Oceans, a priceless resource under pressure?
The thermostat of global climate, oceans absorb nearly 30% of CO2 emissions linked to human activities. These unbounded bodies of water are home to more than half of all living species on Earth. An extreme environment, its depths reveal remarkable but fragile ecosystems. Oceans are also increasingly subject to anthropic pressures, including global warming and its series of consequences: intensified ocean acidification, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, increasingly frequent extreme events, deoxygenation and modification of life in ecosystems. The threat of chemical, plastic, and organic pollution deeply disrupts the health and functioning of marine ecosystems. The exploitation of mineral and living resources also contributes to the degradation and destruction of marine habitats. A giant physical, geological, chemical, and biological laboratory, oceans nevertheless remain a major unknown. Scientists are on all ocean fronts—and depths—trying to push back the frontiers of knowledge.
Oceans, a priceless resource under pressure? (in french)
Further reading:
Learning to live with Sargassum (in french)
Tara Pacific: the immense diversity of coral reefs is revealed (in french)
