Open calls and preannouncements

The CETPartnership Joint Call 2022 is the first annual co-funded call under the CETPartnership and is co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Partnership scheme. For France, the ANR participates to the funding of this call with Ademe and the Région Pays de la Loire.

Japan and France are long-standing partners in the field of information and communication technologies. In the recent years, cooperation has been particularly developed in the field of artificial intelligence with the creation of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). Japan has been elected as incoming GPAI Council Chair for 2022-2023 while France was the previous chair. These elections highlight the major roles played by France and Japan in the field of Artificial Intelligence and show the long standing and strong collaboration between the two countries. In this context, MESR and JST are pleased to launch a call on Edge AI to strengthen the tie between the two countries.

The third edition of the "Ecophyto - Maturation" call for proposals aims to promote projects that transfer research results to the socio-economic world with the objective of reducing the use of phytopharmaceutical products and their impacts.

The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address critical translational questions to improve our knowledge concerning neurobiological mechanisms involved in resilience or vulnerability to environmental challenges in mental health.

The French National Research Agency (ANR) is participating in an international call for projects launched by JPIAMR and by the ERA-NET JPIAMR-ACTION in the area of surveillance and diagnostics. The call involves 25 funding organizations from 19 countries. The total call budget is about 21 million euros. Proposals will be evaluated in two steps (pre-proposal/ full proposal).

The Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO) basin is a globally recognized hotspot of endemism and biodiversity. It is home to many spatially fragmented Marine Protected Areas (MPA), which are essential in maintaining marine ecosystems. A crucial element, which requires further investigation, is the ecological connectivity, often highlighted in the design of MPAs and the guarantees of conservation success.

"Natural History Studies addressing unmet needs in Rare Diseases"

ANR is launching its 17th Franco-German call for proposals in Social Sciences and Humanities and (SSH) in collaboration with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Biodiversa+ - the European Biodiversity Partnership - is pleased to launch its 2022-2023 joint Call for transnational research proposals on “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society”.

The French National Research Agency, in partnership with sixteen countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain -including region of Andalusia-, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Turkey) is launching the novel international call for projects on health equity under the umbrella of the Partnership ERA4Health (“Fostering a European Research Area for Health”). The total budget for this action is 13 million euros.

In the context of JPcofuND 2 ANR launches a joint transnational call; the aim is to establish a number of ambitious innovative, multi-disciplinary and multi-national collaborative research projects that seek to improve the understanding of the complex and multifactorial pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases by applying multi-OMICs and Big data approaches in order to generate useful information for the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and drug discovery of neurodegenerative diseases.

The French National Research Agency (ANR) will launch in February 2023 an international call for projects on new food ingredients, new food or technologies and their contribution to healthy, sustainable diets under the umbrella of the JPI HDHL (“healthy Diet Healthy Life”). There will be a one-step submission and evaluation procedure for joint applications complemented by a rebuttal stage. The action will be launched on February 21st, 2023 and applicants will have up to April 21st, 2023 to submit the proposals.

The French National Agency (ANR) will participate in the first joint transnational call launched in 2023 by the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, a European partnership under the European Commission’s Research & Innovation Framework Programme Horizon Europe. The first co-funded call is entitled « The way forward: a thriving sustainable blue economy for a brighter future ».

For the 2023 edition, ANR renews its collaboration agreement with the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST) in the framework of the JST-CREST programme. The joint call will be open to the following three themes.

The QuantERA programme, via the ERA-NET Cofund QuantERA II, 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 Technologies, in support to the actions of the Quantum Technologies Flagship. The call gathers 36 funding organisations, including the ANR, in 29 countries.

The French National Research Agency, in partnership with sixteen countries (Austria, Belgium- including Wallonia-Brussels, Flanders-, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain -including region of Andalusia-, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Turkey) is launching the novel international call for projects on cardiovascular disease under the umbrella of the Partnership ERA4Health (“Fostering a European Research Area for Health”).The total budget for this action is 19 million euros.

In the framework of its 2023 Work Programme, the French National Research Agency (ANR) proposes the MRSEI call with a continuous submission format throughout the year with four scheduled selection sessions.

The 13th edition of the call for proposals ASTRID – Specific Support for Defence Research Projects and Innovation, operated by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and financed by the French Defence Innovation Agency (AID) is now open to applicants.

The French National Research Agency (ANR), in partnership with the French Defence Innovation Agency (AID), is launching the 2023 call for proposals ASTRID Maturation – Specific support for defence projects and innovation: Maturation and valorisation. The program is entirely funded by the AID and is implemented by ANR.

Coming from the Horizon Europe Partnership scheme and related to the JPI Urban Europe, the European Driving Urban Transitions Partnership gather a massive community: 27 countries and more than 60 partners to support the European innovation ecosystem in the urban area. The aim of the DUT Joint Call 2022 is to fund transnational research and innovation projects on urban challenges, at an international level in order to help cities in their transition to a more sustainable economy. Among Horizon Europe's 49 European Partnerships, DUT is the only one dedicated to urban transition.

The Water4All partnership is starting in 2022 under the auspices of the European Union Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation, to concentrate research and innovation on water in Europe and beyond. Water4All’s Vision is to “boost the systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers for ensuring water security for all in the long term”.