Deadline: 11-Apr-23
To prepare France for a new major health crisis, the Government has launched the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) and Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical (ND) Threats acceleration strategy, included in the Health Innovation 2030 section of the Investissement France 2030.
This strategy must allow the State to understand, prevent and control the phenomena of emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases, to limit their impacts, but also to fight against other ND threats.
As part of the interdisciplinary research component supported by the strategy, two complementary Priority Research Programs and Equipment (PEPR) are implemented in order to bring together, animate and structure the scientific communities concerned around research priorities on EIDs in an approach between human, animal and environmental health: PREZODE PEPR (Preventing Zoonotic Diseases Emergence) and MIE PEPR (Emerging Infectious Diseases).
The PEPR PREZODE aims to strengthen the production of knowledge and the development of relevant tools to define innovative strategies for risk reduction and early detection of emergences. This call for projects only concerns PEPR PREZODE, which aims to better understand the links between human activities, global changes and the mechanisms of the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
Focus Areas
More specifically, this call for projects (AAP) aims to cover 3 areas:
- Axis 1. Characterization and role of hosts, reservoirs and vectors, as well as their interactions, in the evolution, circulation, transmission and emergence of zoonotic pathogens in a context of global changes;
- Axis 2. Characterization of the sociological, economic and environmental dimensions in the evolution, circulation and emergence of zoonotic pathogens at the human species/animal/environment interface in a context of global changes;
- Axis 3. Characterization and quantification of cascading effects between human activities, global changes, socio-economic activities, structuring of ecological communities and risks of zoonotic emergence.
Funding Information
- This first call for projects will mobilize a maximum of €9 million and the amount of aid requested per project will be between €1 and €3 million for a period of between 3 and 5 years.
Phases
The call for projects will consist of two phases:
- a first phase of submitting letters of intent. This phase will not be a step for evaluating the letters of intent submitted but will allow the scientific community to formulate its research proposals, to identify any lack of skills within each consortium.
- a second phase of submission of complete projects, with a view to the evaluation of the scientific project of the consortia selected by an international evaluation committee mandated by the ANR.
For more information, visit ANR Agence Nationale de la Recherche.