
The French National Research Agency (NRA) is a funding agency for research projects whose aim is to increase the number of research projects issued from the entire scientific community, and to provide funding based on calls for proposals and peer review selection processes. The ANR addresses both public research institutions and industries with a double mission of producing new knowledge and promoting interaction between public laboratories and industrial laboratories through the development of partnerships.
NRA issues each year various calls for projects
The list of 2010 open calls is available on the NRA web site : http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/AAPProjetsOuverts
Projects selected by the NRA and that were accredited by a French competitiveness cluster will receive an additional funding from the NRA.
Lyonbiopole proposs to evaluate accreditation's application for projects that fullfill the following conditions :
To submit a project for accreditation, the "fiche de synthese" must be filled by the project leader and sent back at projets@lyonbiopole.com
BioTecS and TecSan projects will be evaluated by Lyonbiopole on February, 5th 2010.