Support for research: I-SITE 2024 program of excellence
As part of the I-SITE Excellence Program, the University is implementing its research support program for 2024.
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This program is open to all research structures under the supervision of establishments in the strategic agreement (BRGM - CEA - CIHEAM-IAM - CHU-Montpellier - CHU-Nîmes - CIRAD - CNRS - ENSCM - ICM - IFREMER - INRAE - INRIA - INSERM - Institut Agro Montpellier - IRD - Université de Montpellier) attached to the University of Montpellier's divisions.
It aims to support 4 types of action
- Acquisition of research equipment with a view to pooling resources
- Preparing a project for submission to the ERC
- Support for the prematuration of technologies or know-how with a view to innovation
- Emerging avenues of exploratory research
Calendar
STEPS | |
Launch of the AAP | 25/07/2023 |
Application deadline | 29/09/2023 |
Sent to internal and external evaluators | 16/10/2023 |
Deadline for returning evaluations | 17/11/2023 |
Analysis of files by the Selection Committee | 07/12/2023 |
Analysis and validation of files by COMIS | 12/12/2023 |
Results announcement | 13/12/2023 |
Credit availability | January 2024 |
How to submit
Projects from each research structure are submitted exclusively by their director.
Files are submitted in PDF format according to the attached template:
Amount available
Type of action | Potential overall amount | Maximum amount of aid per project |
Equipment | 1600 k€ | 200 k€ |
ERC springboard | 800 k€ | 100 k€ |
Innovation Accelerator | 500 k€ | 80 k€ |
Exploratory | 400 k€ | 15 k€ |
Total | 3 300 k€ |
Number of projects by research structure
Facility managers are asked to moderate the number of applications submitted according to the following scale:
For the Equipment section: 1 application per research organization, with up to 2 items of equipment prioritized by the organization's director.
For the ERC Springboard, Innovation Accelerator and Exploratory sections, the total number of applications submitted by a research organization depends on its size:
Number of titular EC and C | < 30 | 30 ≤ N < 60 | 60 ≤ N < 100 | 100 ≤ N |
Total number of files (excluding equipment) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Target audience
Post-docs; teacher-researchers, tenured researchers.
This program is open to all research structures under the supervision of institutions in the strategic agreement attached to the Université de Montpellier clusters.