Open calls and preannouncements

The signing of the bilateral agreement between the ANR and the JST (Japanese science and technology agency) for the promotion of scientific and technological cooperation has resulted in the opening up of the emblematic Japanese CREST programme (Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology) to the participation of French teams in Japanese projects. French teams are invited to participate in research projects in collaboration with one or more Japanese teams concerning one of the two following priority research areas:

France and the Czech Republic have been key players in the European Nuclear Alliance, leading the way in reforming the electricity market. Both governments aim to enhance these collaborations, especially in research cooperation. The French and Czech governments wish to strengthen these ties, particularly through cooperation in the field of research.

The Belmont Forum, an international partnership of research funding organizations of which ANR is a member, is launching a call for projects recognizing the pressing challenges and opportunities to meet the targets under the Sustainable Development Goals and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in tropical forests worldwide. This Collaborative Research Action (CRA) aims at coordinating actions and projects with a transdisciplinary approach to develop innovative solutions to the challenges faced in tropical forest regions, Amazonia being the largest and most populated. Acknowledging the differences in governance, cultural diversity, and territorial configuration, this CRA spans tropical forests worldwide that face similar challenges.

JPND launches this joint transnational call for proposals, in which ANR is participating, with the aim to improve the well-being of people with neurodegenerative diseases through medical sciences, social sciences and humanities research. More specifically, proposals will aim to increase understanding of the factors that hamper social inclusion, civic participation, dignity and quality of life of patients and their families and to develop more adequate concepts of easily accessible support for people with neurodegenerative diseases at moderate, advanced and end of life stages.

To contribute to achieving the goals of the Ecophyto 2030 Strategy by building on research outcomes, the Ministries responsible for research (MESR), agriculture (MASAF), ecological transition (MTEECPR), and health (MSA) are launching the fourth edition of the "Ecophyto Maturation" (ECOM) call for projects. Managed by the ANR and co-financed by the OFB, this programme promotes the emergence of innovative, operational, and deployable solutions to reduce the use and impact of pesticides.

The joint LEAP-SE 2025 call is the first call of the COFUND LEAP-SE, cofunded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Europe programme. For France, the ANR is participating in the financing of this call, jointly with the ARI (Agence Régionale de l'Innovation - La Réunion).

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.

17/02/2025 - 07/05/2025

The European Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) launches its 1st co-funded call for transnational research projects. This call for proposals is co-funded by the European Commission.

20/12/2024 - 28/03/2025

The AGROECOLOGY Partnership, funded by the European Union as part of Horizon Europe, which unites the European Commission and 72 partners across 26 Member States, is a research and innovation program aiming to quicken agroecological transition by developing a network of living labs and research infrastructures, enabling the production of innovative solutions with a multi-stakeholder approach and a real-world experimentation.

ANR is joining forces with the ERA-NET NEURON COFUND 2 to launch a call for projects aimed at better understanding the neuroscience of pain in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Since 2011, the coastal regions of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico have been confronted with massive strandings of Sargassum seaweed, the scale and persistence of which stand out from previous waves. The degradation of the seaweed causes significant releases of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, leading to beach closures and the evacuation of coastal populations, thus confronting the regions concerned with a critical health, environmental and economic situation.

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.

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

Le Programme de Recherche (PEPR) Biothérapies et Bioproduction de Thérapies Innovantes (BBTI) s’inscrit dans la Stratégie d’Accélération Biothérapies et Bioproduction de Thérapies Innovantes qui a pour but de placer la France à l’avant-garde dans les domaines de la biothérapie et de la bioproduction de thérapies innovantes.

Au cours des dernières années, les modèles animaux ont démontré des limites importantes dans l'exploration des mécanismes d’apparition et d’évolution des maladies humaines. Ceci explique en partie le fort taux d’échec (90%) des essais cliniques de nouveaux médicaments qui se sont pourtant révélés efficaces chez l'animal. De plus, dans un contexte qui vise à réduire l’expérimentation animale pour respecter la politique des "3R" (Reduce, Replace, Refine), les modèles actuels de culture cellulaire in vitro présentent certaines limitations dans leurs capacités à reproduire les mécanismes in vivo et ne permettent pas d'aborder facilement la variabilité entre les patients, une question essentielle dans le domaine en pleine expansion de la médecine personnalisée.

20/11/2024 - 30/06/2025

Le PEPR exploratoire « Sous-sol, bien commun » vise à mieux évaluer la demande nationale future en ressources et usages du sous-sol, à caractériser les potentiels géologiques, à faire émerger des technologies innovantes et à définir les conditions d’une utilisation responsable et durable, en travaillant à la fois sur la connaissance géologique du sous-sol et sur les enjeux économiques, sociaux, environnementaux et réglementaires de son utilisation.

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.

PRIMA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda identified 8 operational objectives for facing Mediterranean challenges related to Water management, Farming systems and Agro-food chains. In this context, ANR participates to the 2025 Section 2 joint transnational call for proposals to fund innovative research projects addressing the following 3 topics:

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, in collaboration with 35 funding organisations, launches the second joint transnational call for proposals on “Pharmacogenomic strategies for personalised medicine approaches (PGxPM2025)”. The available budget for this call is over 36.5 Mio€.

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 French National Research Agency is joining the 3rd transnational call for proposals launched within the framework of the Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) Partnership « Better care closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care ».

The French Research Agency is participating to the Joint Transnational Call “InterHeart” launched under the umbrella of the Partnership ERA4Health (“Fostering a European Research Area for Health”). This call aims to support proposals studying the interactions between the cardiovascular system and the other organs/systems when at least one of the two presents a pathological state.