Work Programme 2027
As part of its Work Programme, via the Generic Call for Projects (AAPG), the ANR maintains its mission: to support project-based research, in all scientific fields and all disciplines, by giving its full place to fundamental, exploratory research guided by the curiosity of researchers. The objective of the AAPG is to take into account the diversity of the needs of the disciplines and projects (particularly in terms of resources and duration), while maintaining strong support for young researchers.
The Work Programme allows researchers in different scientific fields to fund their research projects on a large number of themes, finalized or not, in a disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary framework.
The 2027 Work Programme is a continuation of the measures announced on 12 June 2026 by Philippe Baptiste, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Space, to strengthen the European dimension of French research, and aims to make the Agency a real springboard to Europe, at the service of laboratories and scientific communities.
It maintains and strengthens the tools to support the submission of European projects (Tremplin ERC, Access ERC, Percée JCJC, MRSEI, SRSEI, J-MRSEI) with a novelty: the Token for the Setting up of European or International Scientific Networks (J-MRSEI) program, launched in 2026 and initially offered to French laureates or scientific managers of FRAL (Franco-German call for projects in the humanities and social sciences) or PRCI projects of the AAPG, will now be extended to all of the Agency's international calls.
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The Generic Call for Projects (AAPG), the ANR's main call
The AAPG mobilizes 5 instruments to finance:
- individual research projects carried out by a young researcher within the framework of the "Young Researcher and Young Researcher" (JCJC) instrument;
- research projects supporting a coordinator and his/her team in the exploration of an ambitious and visible research project, with a commitment to submit a European project, within the framework of the "Single-Team Research Project" (PRME) instrument;
- collaborative research projects:
- the collaborative dimension of the PRCs will be strengthened for the "Collaborative Research Project" (PRC) instrument, consortia will have to associate at least one of the following profiles: a young researcher as a scientific manager, an international partner working with their own funds, or a socio-economic actor;
- between laboratory or public partner and companies in a national context within the framework of the "Collaborative Research Project-Enterprise" (PRCE) instrument or between French and foreign laboratories or public partners in an international bilateral context within the framework of the "Collaborative Research Project - International" (PRCI) instrument.
The AAPG is structured into 57 research axes, of which 38 axes are presented within 7 disciplinary fields and 19 axes correspond to transversal issues. Each axis has a scientific evaluation committee.
Whatever the AAPG instrument, all types of projects are possible: projects with original, disruptive or exploratory objectives or concepts; projects aimed at removing scientific barriers identified in the community; projects exploiting the data generated by research infrastructures; projects that follow on from previous projects and allow for new objectives.
From 2027, as part of the PRCE (Collaborative Research Project-Enterprise) instrument, the ANR and the ANRT will set up a simplified procedure for commercial partner companies of a PRCE project wishing to apply for funding for a CIFRE thesis and the conditions requiring consortium agreements will also be relaxed.
Consult the AAPG 2027 generic call for projects
The strategic priorities of the 2027 Work Programme
The ANR's 2027 Work Programme renews the strategic priorities defined by the State and introduces a new one:
- Artificial intelligence;
- Humanities and Social Sciences at interfaces;
- Quantum technologies (evolution);
- Neurodevelopmental disorders;
- Therapeutic proofs of concept in rare diseases;
- Mathematics;
- Exploitation of the data produced by the IR, IR* and OSI (evolution).
- Mental health, a Great National Cause, designated in 2025 on this major public health issue.
- PFAS (new priority): preventing, characterizing and reducing the risks of perfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) to human health, ecosystems and environmental media; to accelerate their substitution with safer alternatives.
The priorities set out in the 2027 Work Programme are detailed within the scientific axes described in the AAPG 2027.
The ANR's commitments in the 2027 Work Programme
The ANR reaffirms its commitments to:
- Respect for the principles of ethics and scientific integrity,
- The requirement for transparency in the use of AI,
- The development of a policy to reduce gender inequalities in Higher Education and Research (MORE),
- Open science,
- The Sustainable Development Goals,
- The promotion of scientific, technical and industrial culture (STIC) and science-society dialogue,
- Compliance with the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge,
- The implementation of the measures of the National Scientific and Technical Heritage Protection System (PPST) aimed at protecting, within public and private institutions, access to their strategic knowledge and know-how as well as their sensitive technologies.
The implementation of these commitments is specified in the 2027 Work Programme.
A Work Programme developed in consultation
The ANR relied on the Programming Steering Committees (CPPs) meeting from March to April 2026 to develop its 2027 Work Programme in consultation with the scientific communities and institutional research actors.
These committees bring together representatives of the ANR, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, other ministries, the CNRS, France Universités, representatives of other major research players, and private research players. They correspond to the following fields: Life Sciences, Energy and Materials, Digital Technology, Environment, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics and Interactions, Physics of Matter and Sciences of the Universe. Specific CPPs are also held to deal with cross-cutting areas, in conjunction with the programme agencies.
The ANR Rendez-vous: webinars to learn more about the ANR's actions and calls for projects
From September 2026, and then throughout the year, the ANR invites researchers, managers and institutional research actors to presentations and webinars for information and exchange on the ANR's calls, the specificities of the 2027 Work Programme, the financial regulations, consortium agreements, France 2030, the open science policy, etc.
Find the full program and replays of the webinars (continuously updated content)
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