Deadline for submission of projects : 15 September 2026 à 11:00 CEST.
Because of their specific environmental (most of them islands in the intertropical zone), economic and social characteristics, the inhabited overseas territories concentrate many of today's major global challenges. They are home to 80% of France's biodiversity, including 4/5 of the species endemic to French territories, 55,000 km2 of coral reefs and lagoons, representing more than 10% of the world's coral reef surface area, as well as 20 % of the world's atolls and more than 7 million hectares of tropical forest in French Guiana. Their populations are highly dependent on biodiversity and ecosystem services, which are being impacted by climate change. In addition, human activities in these territories have serious consequences for the environment, biodiversity and human health.
The PPR focuses on 3 challenges:
- Challenge 1 - Vulnerabilities and specific structural features of the outermost regions in the face of anthropic and economic pressures generating pollution.
- Challenge 2 - Assess the dynamics of pollution in the socio-ecosystems of the French overseas territories and anticipate their impact and potential future damage.
- Challenge 3 - Transition and solutions for socio-ecosystems degraded by pollution.
The PPR is launching this call for projects (AAP), the aim of which is to encourage the emergence of innovative projects and structuring consortiums that will strengthen teams and laboratories in the French overseas territories.
The call for projects will take place in 2 phases:
- In the first, compulsory and selective phase, five-page letters of intent are requested, on the basis of which a reduced number of project proposals will be selected after evaluation by an internal evaluation committee of the RPP Overseas, involving the chair of the evaluation committee for full projects. The assessments will be accompanied by any recommendations for the second phase.
- In a second phase, the consortia shortlisted in the first phase will be asked to submit full projects, which will be evaluated by a committee of international experts set up by the ANR.
The duration of the projects is 5 years. The amount of aid allocated per complete project is a maximum of €2M. Projects involving several DROM-COMs in different ocean basins may request aid of up to €4M, with justification. The duration of the projects is 5 years. The maximum total volume of aid for this call for proposals is €10m.