Call for research proposals of the national research program for environmental and occupational health (PNREST)

ANSES launches a call for research proposals on Environmental and Occupational Health on 26 November 2013.

Launched within the framework of the national research program for environmental and occupational health (PNREST), this call for research proposals is to support public policies. It takes into account the research priorities of national plans for Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Cancer, Ecophyto and Ecoantibio 2017.

The PNR EST aims to motivate scientific communities to produce useful data at all stages of health risk assessment and thus to bring together research and scientific expertise. The call for research proposals 2014 deals with the assessment and analysis of environmental risks to human health in the general and occupational population. It is focused on research items raised by the ministries and State agencies concerned by these topics.

This call is funded with budgets allocated to ANSES by the Ministries of the Environment and Labour. This funding is increased by the participation of several co-sponsors: ADEME, ITMO cancer and ministry in charge of agriculture under the Ecophyto plan (with ONEMA) under the Ecoantibio 2017 Plan. In 2013, the total budget is expected to be about 4,5 million Euros.

The 2014 selection process will be organized into two stages:

• an initial selection on the basis of letters of intent,
• a second round of selection based on complete applications.

The call of proposals and the research items

The scope and conditions are described in the text of the call of research proposals. It is accompanied by a list of research items that have been identified as high-priority for potential users of this research in the assessment of risks or the development of risk control measures. These items are the topics that this call aims to document.

Proposal submission terms

Letters of intent and complete applications must be submitted using the online submission platform which is available on the websites of ANSES and the Call’s co-sponsors.  http://recherche.anses.fr

The Research and Intelligence platform for the submission of 2013 applications will be operational in December 2013.

Call of research proposals timetable

• 26 November 2013 : Opening of the call.
• 8 January 2014 midday French time : Last date to submit letters of intent.
• 17 February 2014 : Dissemination of the first selection results, based on letters of intent, to the scientific project managers 
• 20 March 2014 midday French time : Last date to submit complete applications.
• End 2014 : Publication of the final selection results.