The 3rd Academy's call 2018 was closed on April 5, 2018
! French and English versions of the call presentation in PDF are available here !
The overall intention of the Academy "Networks, Information, and Digital Society" is to support research excellence in the fields of communication networks, processing and modeling of digital information and to better understand the evolutions of society induced by the digital revolution.
Three major ambitions guide the projects of the academy:
The objective of this third internal call of the academy is twofold :
According to this twofold objective, the present call is structured in two, separated parts :
Call 1: Transdisciplinary (Including salary)
This call aims to support transdisciplinary and ambitious research work in the Academy’s scientific areas. Funding will be provided to 3-year projects, which include a doctoral thesis. The depth and quality of the transdisciplinary research will be considered as the major selection criterion. In particular, projects combining expertise in computer science/electronics and expertise in the humanities and social sciences (management/law/economics) and/or in art will be given priority. The application must include funding for:
The objective is to fund 4 projects with this call (corresponding to 4 thesis grants).
Call 2: International Reach (Without salary)
The purpose of this call is to fund equipment, travel, paid internships, and other necessary resources (with the exception of salaries) to carry out research projects. The requested funding should be at least 20 k€, over 1 or 2 years. The structuring aspect of the project and its international reach are the two main selection criteria for projects in this call.
A principal investigator (PI) can apply to both calls provided that the two, submitted projects are distinct and on different topics. The submitted projects in each call may or may not be based on prior, existing projects already funded by the Academy.
The principal investigator of the project should be a permanent member of one of the laboratories or research groups associated with the Academy. In addition to the PI’s laboratory, the project should involve at least one secondary laboratory, institution, association, or company from the Alpes-Maritimes region.
If the project demonstrably involves several Academies, a request for funding can be made to several academies. However, it should be noted that if the launch and closing schedule is identical to five academies of excellence, the orientation of the calls may differ from one Academy to another. In this sense, it is not a common call; the prerogatives are different according to each call of each Academy. It is therefore necessary for Principal Investigator who wish to submit a project within the scope of several academies and who wish to benefit from funding from several academies, I) to carefully learn the content of the calls from the five Academies; II) to submit a single application to the Reference Academy (corresponding to the most appropriate one thematically), to indicate the amount of funding requested from each Academy involved, III) to prefigure in the description of the submitted project all the prerequisites of the different calls (eligibility criteria) and the link with each Academy.
The Academy’s Scientific council (SC) will rank the submitted projects (first and second calls) and, on the basis of 3 expert reviews, including at least one from an external expert, provide a detailed opinion of the projects.
The project’s quality and transdisciplinary character will be the main selection criteria for Call 1.
The project’s structuring aspect, international reach, and scientific excellence will be the main criteria for evaluating Call 2.
The Scientific Council may interview project PIs from Call 1 during the evaluation phase. The steering committee will select the projects based on the Scientific Council’s evaluation.
For the projects selected, a report will be requested at the end of the project. The results (publications, demonstrations, animation days, ...) should be visible from the website of the academy.
For the projects issued from the call 1, a presentation on the project progress in front of steering committee and / or SC will be delivered at the meetings by the principal investigator on M6, M18 and M24.
The submitted proposal should use the template file for each call available on the Nuxeo web site. It may be written in French or English.
Online submission through the Nuxeo calls plateform :
The deadline for submitting the projects is noon, 5 April 2018.
Olga Kieffer, Academy project officer
Laure Blanc-Féraud, President of the Scientific Council
