Calls for Projects

AAP ANR MRSEI 2026 Montage de Réseaux Scientifiques Européens ou Internationaux - application deadlines via ANR - Session 1 on 19 05 2026 at 13h00 (CEST) - Session 2 on 01 09 2026 at 13h00 (CEST)

Information source: DRV e-mail dated 18 03 2026 at 17:35 for the attention of units

1 Brief description of the scheme (sources - ANR website)

As part of the "Building the European Research Area and International Attractiveness" component of the 2026 Action Plan, the "MRSEI" instrument has been renewed with a continuous submission format involving two selection sessions.

The MRSEI program was created to give scientists working in French laboratories the means to submit a research project as coordinator to European (Horizon Europe) or international collaborative calls, thereby giving them the opportunity to develop ambitious interdisciplinary projects and boost their visibility at international level.

In the context of this call for proposals, only proposals aimed at setting up a European or international scientific network, coordinated by a French team, are expected. These research networks set up under the MRSEI program are required to apply to an ambitious European or international call for projects.

2 Description of the program (pdf from DRV AMU)

Information source: DRV e-mail dated 18 03 2026 at 5:35 pm for the attention of units

Pdf DRV AMU AAP ANR MRSEI 2026

3 DRV AMU contact (business manager)

Giacomo Bagatella

4 Application deadline via ANR website

Session 1 on 19 05 2026 at 13:00 (CEST)

Session 2 on 01 09 2026 at 13h00 (CEST)

Current ANR calls for projects can be consulted on the ANR website.

Contact DRV de campus : Magali NIOX

The Diplomatic Archives Directorate aims to bring diplomacy closer to the French public by developing initiatives that enable professionals in the archival and library fields to diversify their audiences and organize networking events through this project. To achieve this goal, the Directorate of Diplomatic Archives is launching, for the first time during the 2026–2027 academic year, a call for applications to host young researchers in the humanities and social sciences as residents.

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Since the residency is based solely on the exchange of knowledge, it does not entitle participants to any stipend or compensation, as it is not an employment contract.

Calenda Listing 1,416,667 (excerpts) 

The Campus Condorcet Public Institution (EPCC), the Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales Paris Nord (MSH Paris Nord), and the Seine-Saint-Denis Departmental Council are launching, for the first time, a joint call for projects, with a budget of €30,000, intended to support research in the humanities and social sciences on regional issues.

Seine-Saint-Denis is a region undergoing significant urban, social, economic, and environmental changes. These changes are accompanied by a strong momentum of initiatives led by public authorities, nonprofit organizations, citizens, and the business sector, making the department a prime setting for social innovation, experimentation, and the renewal of public policy practices. Issues related to ecological transitions, reducing inequalities, education, health, mobility, and intercultural dynamics play a central role here.

This call for proposals is therefore intended to support research, participatory research, or research-creation projects in the humanities and social sciences that focus on territorial dynamics and the analysis of public action, and to promote the exchange of knowledge between the academic community, local stakeholders, and residents. This initiative is part of a broader commitment to developing a research hub rooted in its local community, in alignment with the public policies that serve it.

The 2027 call for proposals is open until October 15, 2026.

AAP French Embassy in the United Kingdom - “Sophie Germain” Funding Program 2026 – Application Deadline: July 13, 2026

1.1 Sources of information: DRV email to units dated June 22, 2026, at 2:19 p.m.

1.2 PDF from the DRV 

1.3 Useful contact: DRV AMU

Giacomo Bagatella

1.4 Useful links – PDF sources from DRV AMU in the DRV email to units dated June 22, 2026, at 2:19 p.m.

General information: see the DRV PDF mentioned in section 1.2

Submission: see the DRV PDF mentioned in section 1.2

Calenda Announcement 1 411 796 (excerpts)

This joint call for projects aims to generate a research dynamic focused on the production of the urban landscape through culture, and, in turn, to examine how territorial challenges, here and elsewhere, are redefining cultural projects in the contemporary city. It invites researchers from all backgrounds, potentially in collaboration with other stakeholders, to propose projects—whether in the Plaine Commune area or elsewhere—related to this theme, which examines the past, present, and future of urban spaces as cultural productions.

Calenda Listing 1,396,374 (excerpts)

Overview

This funding is open to students enrolled in a doctoral program at a French university in the humanities and social sciences (psychology, sociology, economics, law, anthropology, demography, philosophy, linguistics, political science, education, nursing, architecture, design…) or public health, whose research focuses on:

• societal issues arising from Alzheimer’s disease and/or other related diseases: law, ethics, the impact of the disease on family and friends…
• improving the quality of life for people with the disease and their family, volunteer, or professional caregivers.

Five doctoral students will be supported in 2026.

Please note!

• Doctoral students currently receiving funding (doctoral contract, CIFRE contract, etc.) or those who are employed are not eligible to apply.
• Biomedical research projects are not eligible.

Amount: Up to €40,000 per year, renewable twice.

Eligibility

Must be enrolled at a French university in the humanities and social sciences (psychology, sociology, economics, law, anthropology, demography, philosophy, linguistics, political science, education, nursing sciences, etc.) or in public health, whose work is conducted within a research laboratory and focuses on the societal challenges posed by Alzheimer’s disease and/or other related diseases and/or the improvement of the quality of life for patients and their family caregivers, volunteers, or professionals, and who do not have funding.

Announcement Calenda 1 393 028 (extracts)

Call for expressions of interest and new themes for the creation of digital thematic groups 2026-2029.

Calenda announcement 1 389 893 (extracts)

The Maison des sciences humaines et sociales Paris Nord is a research and support unit under the auspices of the CNRS, Paris 8 University and Sorbonne Paris Nord University. As a member of the national network of MSHs, it launches an annual call for projects on issues corresponding to its research areas and themes. This call is open to projects of a high scientific level, including incubation and risk-taking, and meeting three criteria of the charter of the national network of Maisons des sciences sociales et des humanités: interdisciplinarity, inter-institutionality and internationality.

Application deadline (via (MSH) Paris Nord) 07 09 2026 at 11:59 pm

Ecophyto call for expressions of interest (AMI) "Values and acceptability of preventive actions to limit the use of plant protection products in agriculture" - application deadlines via ecophytopic website - stage 1 16 05 2026 at 23:59 - stage 2 23 10 2026 at 23:59

Information source: DRV e-mail of 16 03 2026 at 08:57 to the attention of units

1 Summary description of the system (sources - ecophytopic.fr website)

Scheme description

The aim of the Ecophyto 2030 strategy is to reduce the use, dependence, risks and impacts of plant protection products by supporting stakeholders through the process of change. The Ministries of Ecological Transition, Agriculture, Health, Higher Education and Research, and the Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB) are launching a call for expressions of interest in research and innovation as part of axis 4 "research, innovation and training" of the Ecophyto 2030 strategy. This call for expressions of interest, with a planned budget of 3.5 million euros, is financed by funds from the diffuse pollution levy earmarked for the Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB) to support Ecophyto actions.

The aim of this call for expressions of interest (AMI) is to evaluate and highlight the values of preventive actions not using plant protection products (PPPs), compared with the values of curative actions (using PPPs) in agriculture, at relevant spatial and temporal scales, and to identify the technical, social and economic obstacles to their implementation, as well as their genericity or specificity.

Two lines of research are explored by this AMI

• How can we assess the values (agronomic, economic, environmental, social, etc.) of situations involving preventive crop protection actions not using PPPs, compared with the values of situations involving curative actions using synthetic chemistry? Which metrics, which tools, which data in a multi-criteria cost-benefit approach?
• How is preventive action (i.e. without recourse to PPPs) accepted by farmers and other players in value chains, and how can it be made more acceptable? What are the obstacles and levers to their deployment?
  These questions should be based on concrete situations and levers whose agronomic and/or technical, economic, etc. effectiveness has already been tried and tested, or even measured. The specific features of these situations and the associated preventive actions will need to be explained, while taking care to highlight as far as possible aspects of the results that can be transposed beyond specific cases, particularly in terms of methodology, metrics and indicators.
  This call for expressions of interest in research-innovation and research-action is aimed at multidisciplinary scientific communities. The aim is to pursue ongoing or existing work aimed at exploring in depth the issues involved in implementing prophylactic measures.

2 Scheme description (pdf from DRV AMU)

Information source: DRV e-mail of 16 03 2026 at 08:57 to the attention of units

pdf DRV AMI Ecophyto

3 DRV AMU contact (business manager)

Magali Niox

4 Zoom ecophytopic on this scheme on 24 03 2026 from 14h to 15h30 (link in the DRV AMU pdf mentioned above)

4 Application deadline via the ecophytopic website

stage 1 16 05 2026 at 23:59 (letter of intent)

stage 2 10 23:59, 2026 (complete project)