This call for proposals is open to all interdisciplinary projects aimed at exploiting and developing sensor networks to answer scientific questions while minimising their footprint.
This work may address one or more of the issues listed below:
- Physical issues (miniaturisation of sensors, frugality, resilience, biodegradability, detection limits, traces, living (biological) sensors, biomimetics, molecular imprinting, analytical chemistry, etc.),
- Computing and mathematical issues (reliable data acquisition, data compression, aggregation or selection algorithms, use of AI, inverse problems and identification problems in mathematics and automation, modelling the distribution of sensor networks, etc.),
- Systems engineering issues (influence of sensors on the environment, optimisation and control of the distribution and number of sensors, means of data transmission, means of storage, securing data circuits, etc.).
- Environmental and ecological issues (continuous biological measurements) iebeyond electrical variables, long-term monitoring of populations, reduction in energy consumption, study of the impact of the layout of networks according to use cases, life cycle analysis, etc.).
- Political and public issues (informing and consenting patients or stakeholders to the presence of sensors, and to the collection and dissemination of personal and potentially confidential information)
- Social issues linked to the creation of new collective and territorial knowledge and new learning processes
- The relationship between science and society: the impact on society of the production, use, interpretation and distributed enrichment of data.
- Ethical and legal issues (assessment of the need to deploy sensors, limits to data collection and use, role of AI and associated risks, impact on public policy, etc.).
- Economic stakes (public policy on exploiting the data collected).
Deadline for applications : 10 November 2025 at 12 noon
To submit an application, please log on to theNOA application. You will be invited to connect via the RENATER "identity federation" (JANUS codes for agents of CNRS units) and you will be able to choose the "Capteurs2026" call from the list of calls. If you are an agent of a CNRS unit, please use your institutional address linked to JANUS in order to benefit from the pre-filling of certain fields (information concerning you or your laboratory as well as those of your partners). If you are not an agent of a CNRS unit, you can register via your institution's identity federation with RENATER. If this is not possible, please open a local account.
Contact
Project monitoring : Arthur Panier (MITI)