Cooperation Agreement between the National Research Fund (FNR) of Luxemburg and the French National Research Agency
The Lead Agency type contract was signed on February 19, 2013 by Yves Elsen, President of the FNR’s Governing Board, Pascale Briand, ANR’s Director General, and Marc Schiltz, FNR’s General Secretary. It is one of the most efficient instruments in that domain, allowing Luxemburg’s public research institutions to submit with their French colleagues transnational proposals to the ANR Blanc programme. As a lead agency, the ANR will be in charge of the evaluation and selection of the proposals, based on peer review and international standards, and will decide on the projects to be funded. The FNR will fund the Luxemburg part of the projects.
The first ANR-FNR call was launched on October 2012. The call was closed on January 17, 2013, and about thirty proposals were submitted to the ANR and are currently being reviewed.
1 Lead Agency: In order to facilitate international collaborations, the agencies agree on a process where a research project is jointly prepared by the teams from both countries and submitted to only one agency (the lead agency). The lead agency is in charge of the peer review, evaluation and selection of the projects. The partner agency has access to all the information. Each agency funds its own teams. This inter-agency agreement facilitates the process and is based on transparency and mutual trust.
(photo : FNR 2013)
