Generic call - 2022
The Generic Call for Proposals 2022 (AAPG 2022) is the French National Research Agency’s (ANR) main call. It is directed towards all scientific communities and all public and private players involved in French research. It is designed to give researchers in various scientific fields access to co-funding in a large number of research themes, basic or applied, in addition to their allocated recurrent funding.
Funding instruments
The Generic Call for Proposals 2022 involves five funding instruments, each with its own specific submission and evaluation procedures. These instruments aim to fund:
individual research projects coordinated by young researchers (JCJC)
ambitious and innovative research projects led by a team or a laboratory, within the reintroduction of the "Single Team Research Project" (PRME) instrument
collaborative research projects between public entities in a national (PRC)
collaborative research projects between public entities in a bilateral international context (PRCI)
collaborative research projects between public and private entities with a potential opening to the world of business (PRCE).
Research themes
AAPG 2021 is divided into 56 research themes, each with its own Scientific Evaluation Panel (CES). When researchers submit a proposal, they select the scientific theme – and therefore the Scientific Evaluation Panel – that most closely relates to the scientific purpose of their research. This choice cannot be changed mid-way through the selection process.
There are 37 research themes across seven main scientific fields: environmental sciences, energy and materials sciences, digital sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities, mathematics and its interactions, and physics of matter, high-energy, Earth and universe sciences.
There are 19 research themes covering cross-disciplinary challenges and integrating issues from various scientific fields.
Provisional schedule for AAPG 2022
Stage 1
July 2021 Publication of Work Programme 2022 and AAPG 2022
September 2021 Publication of the AAPG 2022 Guide
September 30, 2021 Opening of website for stage 1 submissions (JCJC, PRME, PRC, PRCE) and registrations (PRCI)
October 28, 2021 Closure of stage 1 submission
February 2022 Publication of stage 1 results
End of February 2022 Opening of stage 2 submission website
Stage 2
End of February 2022 Opening of stage 2 submission website (JCJC, PRME, PRC, PRCE and PRCI)
End of March 2022 Closure of stage 2 submission website
End of May 2022 Rebuttal stage
July 2022 Publication of first results (JCJC, PRME, PRC and PRCE)
July/September 2022 Grant agreement phase
Registration of PRCI proposals
All “International Collaborative Research Projects” (PRCI) proposals for which ANR acts as the Lead Agency, or for which there is no Lead Agency, must be registered in phase 1 of AAPG 2022. All PRCI proposals registered with ANR in phase 1 qualify for phase 2 provided that the project in question is eligible. The aim of this measure is to ensure that the PRCI submission and selection process is managed efficiently within the AAPG 2022 process.
A list of confirmed bilateral collaboration programmes for AAPG 2022 will be published soon.
Who can submit a proposal?
AAPG 2022 is open to all grant-holding researchers belonging to an organisation, establishment or public or private research laboratory eligible for ANR funding. Applicants can be involved in a maximum of three proposals submitted to ANR under AAPG 2022 and the bilateral call Fr-All SHS 2022: no more than one as coordinator and two as principal investigator for a project partner, or up to three as principal investigator for a project partner. A coordinator of a PRC, PRCE, PRCI, PRME or JCJC proposal selected for funding under AAPG 2021 cannot submit a PRC, PRCE, PRCI, PRME or JCJC proposal as coordinator for AAPG 2022. However, the researcher may act as a partner’s principal investigator. In addition, a JCJC project coordinator cannot act as the coordinator for another PRC, PRCE, PRCI, PRME or JCJC project while the initial JCJC project is ongoing.