Generic Call for Proposals 2020
he Generic Call for Proposals 2020 (AAPG 2020) 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 2020 involves four funding instruments, each with its own specific submission and evaluation procedures. These instruments are used to fund either individual research projects coordinated by young researchers (JCJC) or collaborative research projects between public entities in a national or bilateral international context (PRC and PRCI respectively) or between and public and private entities with a potential opening to the world of business (PRCE).
Research themes
AAPG 2020 is divided into 49 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 36 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 13 research themes covering cross-disciplinary challenges and integrating issues from various scientific fields.
In the 2020 edition, the scientific scope of the AAPG research themes has been clarified, and the "Sub-atomic physics, sciences of the Universe, structure and history of Earth" theme has been separated into two scientific themes. In addition, references to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which represent major social challenges to which some research can contribute, have also been added to the relevant AAPG research themes.