Major scientific advances involve a certain amount of risk-taking. By supporting, through calls for projects, cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that is integrated into its environment, the A*Midex Foundation contributes to the emergence of innovative science, capable of responding to the societal challenges of the present and the future.
Which devices for which objectives?
Call for projects - Research category
The call for proposals "Generic Research 2022" call for proposals is intended to recognize and encourage innovative approaches whose aim is to give a significant boost to ambitious emerging or exploratory scientific projects that are favorably positioned in the national competition and that present original objectives.
o Web page of the "Generic call Research 2022.
The call for proposals "EQUIPMENT Research" call for proposals supports research units on the Aix-Marseille site that wish to acquire new structuring equipment to develop and strengthen their capacity to implement their research programs . This call for projects is part of the A*Midex Foundation's "EQUIPEMENT Formation Recherche" program, which has a budget of €12 million for the period 2022-2024. Following the launch of the "Research Component" in 2022, the "Training Equipment" call for projects will be launched in early 2023.
o Web page of the "Research Equipment" PAA.
The call for projects "Interdisciplinarity" call for proposals recognizes original and relevant interdisciplinary combinations: capitalize on results already successfully obtained by the carrier team and strongly enhance the potential socio-economic impact.
- Interdisciplinarity 2016-2017 (call closed) - Presentation of the call 2016-2017
- See the winners of the 2016-2017 edition
- To learn more about interdisciplinarity at Aix-Marseille University, consult the AMU letter n°74 - July / August 2019
- AAP Interdisciplinarity 2021 (call closed) - Text of the call presentation.
The "Emergence & Innovation" call for projects fully encourages risk-taking in the context of scientific approaches engaged in unexplored research fields: to bring out new knowledge and identify the potential impact, fundamental and/or applied.
- Emergence & Innovation 2016-2017 (call closed) - Presentation of the 2016-2017 call
- See the winners of the 2016-2017 edition
The "Incubator of Excellence" call for projects encourages seed projects for the benefit of disciplinary or interdisciplinary research: stimulating innovative, creative, collaborative and high-quality initiatives and sparking new partnerships with social-economic and/or cultural actors.
- See the winners of the 2018 edition
- Incubator of Excellence 2017 (call closed) - Presentation text of the 2017 call
- See the winners of the 2017 edition
- Incubator of Excellence 2021 (call in progress) - Presentation text of the 2021 call
Support for ERCs
Initiative Le CERCLE- Club des lauréats du European Research Council du site d'Aix-Marseille: A*Midex contributes, in support of the partners of the Aix-Marseille site, to the impulse of a site policy to support the applications of teachers-researchers and researchers to the ERC program (European Research Council), a strong marker of scientific excellence.
Research projects in the Experimenting the Future Collection
Project Manager Research and Scientific Integration
Ouafia BEHLOUL
- Tel : 04 13 94 94 72
- Email : ouafia.belhoul@univ-amu.fr