Open calls and preannouncements

Supported by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Europe programme, the fourth joint call for proposals from the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) partnership continues the work of the JPI Urban Europe initiative. Bringing together 28 countries and 67 partners, it supports the European innovation ecosystem in the urban field for the fourth consecutive year. In France, the National Research Agency (ANR) participate in this call by funding the french partners.

The fourth Joint Call 2025 of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership), co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme, brings together over 35 funding agencies from 28 countries. This coordinated effort aims to support innovative projects that advance the energy transition. In France, the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the Pays de la Loire Region Council are participating of this call.

Funding agencies from Europe and Africa and JPI Climate are launching an international call for proposals to fund research projects and innovation, “Climate Services for Risk Reduction in West Africa”. The overall strategic aim of the CS4RRA initiative is to develop pathways to climate-resilience in Western Africa by contributing to long-term multinational cooperation.

The Belmont Forum, an international partnership of research funding organizations of which ANR is a member, is launching a call for proposals in the area of oceanic science. The call, entitled “OCEAN 2: Towards the Ocean We Want : Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sustainability for Nature and Human Well-being”, aims at coordinating actions and projects through a transdisciplinary approach, fostering co-creation, co-design, and co-implementation of innovative solutions to address global environmental challenges related to the ocean, its biodiversity from genes to ecosystems.

The Belmont Forum, an international partnership of research funding organizations of which ANR is a member, is launching a call for proposals in the area of risk science. The call, entitled “Resilience”, is designed to foster transdisciplinary research around vulnerability and resilience management for socio-environmental systems in exposed territories.

Biodiversa+ is launching its new transnational research call co-funded by the European Commission: “BiodivConnect”. This call will fund inter- and transdisciplinary research to restore ecosystem functioning, integrity, and connectivity across all types of ecosystems and habitats, worldwide.

ANR launches in collaboration with NSF, DOE and NIH (USA), BSF (Israel - pending) and NICT (Japan), a call for research and data sharing projects in computational neuroscience.

The France 2030 plan aims to bolster France’s global position in the area of innovation and research. To confirm its position at the highest international level, France is investing massively across the entire value chain, from fundamental research to innovation and experimentation. To remain competitive, it is putting in place the resources needed to innovate, transform, promote and attract or retain the best international talents in France.

In the frame of the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine, EP PerMed, (supported by the European Union under Horizon Europe, Grant Agreement N° 101137129), the French National Research Agency (ANR), in collaboration with 19 funding organisations, launches a joint transnational call for proposals as Research, Innovation and Technology Call on “Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine, acronym: MultiPMData2026”. The available budget for this call is over 14.8 Mio€.

The French National Research Agency (ANR) will launch in November 2025 a transnational call for projects under the umbrella of the Partnership ERA4Health (“Fostering a European Research Area for Health”). There will be a two-step submission and evaluation procedure for joint applications, i.e. pre-proposals and full proposals, and the full proposal review process will be complemented by a rebuttal stage. The call will be launched on November 13th, 2025 and applicants will have until January 21st, 2026 12PM to submit the pre-proposals.

Le PEPR ATLASea, piloté par le CNRS et le CEA, a pour objectif de séquencer et analyser des milliers de génomes de référence issus de la biodiversité marine. Dans le contexte du Earth Biogenome Project et du European Reference Genome Atlas, ATLASea s’inscrit dans une dynamique internationale dont le but est de mieux comprendre le vivant à travers l’analyse de génomes représentatifs de sa diversité et issus de centaines de millions d’années d’évolution. A l’heure où la biodiversité est soumise à une pression anthropique accrue, il est urgent de réaliser cet inventaire, dont l’une des applications est d’accroître notre capacité à étudier, surveiller et préserver les écosystèmes. La biodiversité marine est un enjeu particulièrement important car elle est mal connue mais cependant cruciale pour les équilibres naturels, tant physiques (production d’oxygène, séquestration du carbone) que biologiques. La France dispose de la deuxième zone économique exclusive marine au monde, et est dotée d’atouts importants pour l’étude de sa biodiversité marine. Ainsi, le PEPR ATLASea fédère des acteurs clés comme le CNRS, le CEA, le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), l’Ifremer, Sorbonne Université, l’Université Aix-Marseille, Paris Sciences Lettres, et plusieurs stations marines autour de trois projets ciblés : DIVE-Sea pour l’échantillonnage, SEQ-Sea pour le séquençage, et BYTE-Sea pour l’infrastructure informatique.

Lancée par l’Agence de l’Innovation en Santé, en collaboration avec l’Infrastructure F CRIN (French Clinical Research Infrastructure Network), opérée par l’ANR dans le cadre de France 2030, l’action « Évaluation des nouvelles approches méthodologiques en recherche clinique » vise à proposer des évolutions des méthodes d’évaluation des technologies innovantes de santé. Cette évaluation porte sur l’efficacité et la sécurité en vue de la mise sur le marché et d’une prise en charge par la solidarité nationale, puis de suivi de performance en post commercialisation.

More than 30 funding agencies participate in the M-ERA.NET Call 2025 (edition 2026 for ANR) to fund ambitious transnational RTD projects addressing materials research and innovation supporting the European Green Deal and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The call is structured in 6 topics, 3 of which are eligible for ANR.

Les cancers pédiatriques représentent la première cause de mortalité liée à une maladie chez les enfants en Europe, responsables de 20 % des décès après la période néonatale. De plus, deux tiers des survivants subissent des effets à long terme des traitements, souvent suffisamment sévères pour altérer la qualité de vie quotidienne et limiter la participation socioéconomique d’au moins la moitié d’entre eux. Au-delà de leur fardeau sanitaire élevé, les cancers pédiatriques du cerveau partagent plusieurs caractéristiques majeures : (i) ils prennent probablement racine dans des erreurs précoces de décisions de destinée cellulaire, se traduisant par des dérèglements de lignage ; (ii) ils apparaissent vraisemblablement durant des fenêtres de développement embryonnaire spécifiques, alors que le système immunitaire est encore immature ; (iii) ils impliquent à la fois des altérations génétiques et épigénétiques ; et (iv) les composants de la chromatine y jouent un rôle central.

Le Programme eNSEMBLE, Futur de la collaboration numérique, a pour objectif de redéfinir en profondeur les outils numériques pour la collaboration. La pandémie a donné un aperçu à la fois des possibilités et des limites des outils actuels pour la collaboration médiée par le numérique. Que ce soit pour réduire nos déplacements, pour mieux mailler le territoire, ou pour affronter les problèmes et transformations des prochaines décennies, les défis du XXIe siècle vont nous demander de collaborer à une vitesse et à une échelle sans précédent.

The French National Research Agency (ANR) will participate in an international call for projects launched by the EUP OHAMR (European Partnership on One-Health AMR). The call will involve 36 funding organizations from 28 countries. The total budget will be over 28 million euros. Proposals will be evaluated in two steps. The action will be launched on November 18th 2025 and applicants will have up to February 2nd 2026 to submit their pre-proposals.

Gathering several European and African research funding organisations, LEAP-SE program co-funded by the European Commission (EC) under the framework of Horizon Europe aims at developing a long-term partnership between Europe and Africa on Research and Innovation (R&I) on sustainable energy. LEAP-SE consortium members are launching in November 2025 a second call of a transnational cofunded joint Call for proposals. For France ,ANR and LARI (la Réunion) will participate to the funding of this call.

The second ERDERA call aims at facing the challenges of diagnosis in rare diseases. Accurately diagnosing RDs is a major challenge, with approximately 50% of individuals with a suspected rare genetic condition remaining undiagnosed or misdiagnosed despite standard clinical genetics care. In addition, RDs of non-genetic origin - estimated to account for about 10% of all RD cases - remain an under-investigated area. On average, it takes around 5 years to establish an accurate diagnosis for people living with a RD (PLWRD). Given the complexity of these disorders, multiple and complementary diagnostic approaches are required. This complexity underpins the objectives of this call.

The European Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) hereby pre-announces the 2nd co-funded call for transnational research projects.

The QuantERA III consortium, coordinated by the National Science Centre (NCN), and with the ANR as one of its partners, is launching a new call for proposals to fund transnational research projects in Quantum Sciences and Technologies, in support to the actions of the Quantum Technologies Flagship. Through this Call, the QuantERA III consortium aims at stimulating and intensifying research and innovation in the field of Quantum Technologies, contributing to the Strategic Research and Industry Agenda of the European Quantum Technology community. The call will gather 34 funding organisations, including the ANR, in 29 countries.

In the framework of its 2025 Work Programme, the French National Research Agency (ANR) proposes the SRSEI call with a continuous submission format throughout the year.

The National Research Agency is launching, with the Defence Innovation Agency (AID) as partner, the call for projects ASTRID Resistance. This program is co-funded by AID and is hosted by ANR, which ensures its implementation.

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is launching its third joint transnational call entitled “Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems, Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy Competitiveness”. The Partnership pledges to boost green and digital transitions of economic activities related to the regional sea basins bordering the EU, namely the Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, the Black sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea.

Funding Organisations from 30 countries all over Europe and beyond are pleased to announce a Joint Transnational Call (JTC) for research and innovation projects on “Water and health”.