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.
This program is open to all research structures under the supervision of the 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 clusters.
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-doc; Professors, tenured researchers.
This program is open to all research structures under the supervision of strategic agreement establishments attached to the University of Montpellier's clusters.