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Ongoing calls
Launch of the International Emerging Actions (IEA) call for projects – 2024
IEA are a tool for international cooperation shared by the CNRS, to explore new themes and new international partnerships.
International Emerging Actions are “PI-to-PI” projects whose aim is to explore new fields of research and new international partnerships by means of
short missions, the organisation of working meetings and the initiation of initial joint research work based on a shared scientific project. These actions will last for 2 years.
Closing date : 30 September 2024
SPRINT 2024 – new edition of the joint call between CNRS and FAPESP
CNRS eligibility criteria :
Be a project leader or co-leader involved in the submitted project.
Be a CNRS researcher, or a teacher-researcher from another organization working in a CNRS unit. The participation of PhD students and post-docs is an important criterion in the evaluation of the project.
Themes: this call is open to all fields of research.
Duration: 24 months
Application deadline: October 28, 2024
Find out more about all JSPS 2025 calls
Description :
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) is offering 15 Standard Program scholarships for young researchers wishing to carry out a 12 to 24-month research internship in a Japanese laboratory.
Eligibility criteria:
Fellowships are intended for post-docs who have defended their thesis less than 6 years ago (after April 2, 2019). The fellowships are intended for young researchers of French nationality or young foreign researchers who have defended their thesis in France and have at least three years' experience in a university or research organization in France.
All disciplines are eligible.
Deadline for submission of applications to CNRS : November 6, 2024
Download the call for proposals :
- 2-6.(Standard)FY2023 INVITATION LETTER (Sample)
- Dossier_CNRS_long term_jsps-2
- Bourses JSPS Postdoctoral STANDARD Fellowships - 1st call2025
- (Standard)FY2025 Instructions for the application form
- (Standard)FY2025 Application form
- (Standard)FY2025 Application Guidelines REV
The JSPS has entrusted the evaluation and selection of the winners to the CNRS.
Description :
Each year, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) offers 16 summer program scholarships for young French researchers who wish to carry out a 2-month research internship in a Japanese laboratory.
Eligibility criteria:
Master 2 students, PhD students or post-docs who have defended their thesis less than 6 years ago are considered.
All disciplines are eligible.
Deadline for submission to CNRS : November 12, 2024
Download the call for proposals :
- Application Guidelines for JSPS Summer Program 2025
- (SUMMER) - INVITATION LETTER (Sample)
- Application Form for JSPS Summer Program_FY2025
- List of Eligible Host Institutes_FY2025
- Formulaire-CNRS_word
- Texte de l'appel Summer program 2025
The JSPS has entrusted the evaluation and selection of the winners to the CNRS.
Description :
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) offers 13 Fellowships for young researchers who want to spend 1 to 12 months for a research internship in a Japanese laboratory.
Eligibility criteria:
The grants are intended for doctoral or post-doctoral students who have defended their thesis for less than 6 years ago (after 2 April 2019). The fellowships are intended for young researchers of French nationality or young foreign researchers who have defended their thesis in France and can prove that they have been working for at least three years in a university or research organisation in France.
All disciplines are eligible.
Deadline for submission of applications to CNRS : November 8, 2024
Download the call for proposals :
- FY2025 Application Guidelines
- FY2025 Application form
- Bourses JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships - short term Call 2025
- FY2024 Sample Letter of Invitation・Acceptance Letter
- FY2025 Instructions for the application form
The JSPS has entrusted the evaluation and selection of the winners to the CNRS.
Passed calls
Scientific High Level Visiting Fellowships (SSHN) 2023
These grants finance research stays in France in CNRS laboratories for researchers living in the United Kingdom, in order to support the development of structuring Franco-British research collaborations
Application deadline : closed
The CNRS initiates bilateral dialogues with major international research organizations through “PhD Joint Programmes”. Each selected joint project will provide funding for a 3-year PhD scholarship, and mobility between France and the partner country.
For each project, there will be two PI – one from the CNRS and one from the partner institution – and two PhD students, one from the CNRS UMR and one from the partner university.
These calls are open to all disciplines, although certain thematic priorities are highlighted in some calls.
PhD Joint Programmes 2023
Eligibility : staff from CNRS units
Disciplines: The theme for this year’s call is Transformational Science and Technology. The call is intended to be open to all areas of science, technology, engineering and medicine.
Deadline : CLOSED
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines:
Social Sciences and Humanities
Physical biology of emerging model organisms
Quantum Information Sciences
Deadline : closed
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines: all
Deadline : Closed
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines: Priority will be given to projects based on the thematic axes of the CNRS-USP International Research Centre: humanities and social sciences; ecology and environmental sciences; earth and ocean sciences; computer science; biological sciences; quantum technologies; and agriculture and decarbonization.
Deadline: Closed
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Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Disciplines:
- Social Sciences;
- Data-driven interdisciplinary challenges in Earth observation and the environment;
- AI for science, science for AI;
- Energy transition
Areas of interest will also include collaborative projects with CNRS-UTokyo international research laboratories (LIMMS, JFLI, ILANCE, DYNACOM and FJLMI).
Deadline : Friday January 12, 2024
Eligibility: staff from CNRS units
Deadline : Monday 29 January 2024
AMORCE 2024 call for projects – Support for setting up European Coordination Research Projects
This call for projects aims to support researchers and teacher-researchers from CNRS research units who intend to submit, as coordinator, a collaborative project under Horizon Europe.
Deadlines :
Submission deadline: closed
Results: End of February 2024
Download the text of the AMORCE 2024 call for proposals
SALTO exchange programme for doctoral and post-doctoral students between the CNRS and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
SALTO is a strategic exchange programme between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG). The aim of this call for applications is to finance the mobility of young researchers in a Max Planck Institute in Germany as part of their research project over a period of 4 to 10 months. This call is open both to doctoral students in the 2nd year of their thesis and post-doctoral students, working in CNRS laboratories.
Eligibility criteria :
This call is only open to young scientists – PhD students and post-docs – employed in a CNRS unit.
MPG researchers (doctoral and post-doctoral students) interested in the call – to carry out a mobility in a CNRS laboratory – are invited to contact the following e-mail address : salto@gv.mpg.de
Themes :
All proposals in all scientific fields will be considered without exception.
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: closed
Results: from 19 February 2024
International Emerging Actions (IEA) – 2023
International Emerging Actions are “PI-to-PI” projects designed to explore new areas of research and establish new international partnerships through short-term missions, the organization of working meetings and the launch of joint research work on a common scientific project.
The call is open to researchers working in a CNRS unit.
Application deadline: September 28, 2023
JSPS Standard Call
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) offers 8 Standard fellowships for young researchers who want to spend 12 to 24 months for a research internship in a Japanese laboratory. The grants are intended for post-doctoral fellows who defended their thesis less than 6 years ago (after 2 April 2017). The fellowships are intended for young researchers of French nationality or young foreign researchers who have defended their thesis in France and can prove that they have been working for at least three years in a university or research organisation in France. All disciplines are concerned. JSPS entrusted CNRS with the evaluation and selection of fellows.
Deadline for application: closed
Download documents for the call :
Bourses-JSPS-Postdoctoral-Fellowships-2nd-call2023
2-1.(Standard)FY2023 Application Guidelines
2-2.(Standard)FY2023 Application form
Tremplin International – Mobility support (2023)
InSHS is launching a new call intended to promote mobility, give the opportunity to stay abroad in order to carry out fieldwork, surveys, work on archives, manuscripts, etc., develop its international research network, conduct research that may lead to subsequent.
Submission deadline : closed
For more informations about this call, click here https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/en/node/4285
Call for proposals Doctoral contracts with international mobility 2023
InShS launches call for thesis subject proposals for four 36-month doctoral contracts with international mobility which will start on October 1, 2023.
Application deadline : closed
For more informations about this call, click here : https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/en/node/4284
Scientific cooperation with Africa
The CNRS launched a series of calls for projects to promote scientific cooperation with and on the African continent. As indicated in the CNRS multi-year cooperation plan with Africa, the objectives are to meet the different needs expressed by our scientific communities as well as the priorities set by African partners.
These three calls for projects are closed
PhD Joint Programmes
The CNRS launches PhD Joint Programmes every year with some of its major international partners.
Stay tuned for upcoming calls
