Research - Interdisciplinarity - 2023

Targeted actions

Applications for funding are invited for collaborative research projects involving at least two of IM2B's UMRs and falling within at least one of the Institute's 4 strategic areas:

• Biodiversity, molecular mechanisms and machines
• Metabolic diversity and cellular approaches
• Inter-organism dialogue
• Biotechnologies: bioenergy, environment, health

Projects may involve fundamental or applied research, including finalized projects and partnerships.

Eligibility requirements

Projects must be led by at least two researchers/teacher-researchers or engineers from at least two IM2B research units. Platform engineers are eligible if the platform is involved in technological development related to the platform's activity, and not in the provision of services. Projects may involve non-IM2B partners, but will not be funded by the Institute.

Pre-existing collaborations are eligible if they are not already funded.

An IM2B member may participate in only one project for this call for proposals.

A partner funded under previous Interdisciplinarity calls for projects (2020 to 2022) may not apply for this call for projects.

Selection criteria

• Quality of the project with regard to the objectives of the call for projects: novelty of the approach and/or question addressed, particularly with regard to the different disciplinary fields involved, relevance of the project for IM2B, risk-taking.
• Project implementation: quality of the consortium and added value of inter-UMR collaboration, match between project objectives and resources mobilized.
• Potential impact of the project: impact in terms of structuring the collaboration, and impact with regard to the scientific or application issues targeted.