http://joriss.ens-lyon.fr/

2024 CALL FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

. Deadline for submission: February 17, 2025

. Notification of results: March 2025

JoRISS  GUIDELINES:

Created in 2010, the Joint Research Institute for Science and Society is a without walls research structure designed to foster scientific research collaborations between ECNU, ENS de Lyon as a member of the Université de Lyon (UDL), and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

For more details: – see the JoRISS website at http://joriss.ens-lyon.fr/

– contact the JoRISS coordinators:

. Prof. Shuguang KUAI : sgkuai@psy.ecnu.edu.cn
. Prof. Jean-Michel Roy: jean-michel.roy@ens-lyon.fr

 GENERAL CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY:

• All research projects must be jointly headed by two investigators: one affiliated with ECNU and one affiliated with ENS de Lyon. Complementary participation as team members of investigators from other institutions than ECNU and ENS de Lyon is possible.

Project content

Projects may be submitted under one of the 2 following content categories:

A. Projects dealing with the 2024 priority domain: THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

B. Free topic Projects

Project types

 New Incubating Projects
. JoRISS provides up to 30 000 euros per project in seed money for the incubation of a new research project;
. 50% of the funding obtained is provided by ECNU to the Chinese members of the research project, and 50% to the French members of the research project by ENS de Lyon.
. Funds can be used for a maximum period of 24 months on both sides (however, use of funds can be limited to a 12-month period in certain cases);
. Project leaders must commit themselves to seek further subsidies from national and international funding agencies in the course of the incubating period, and are also strongly
encouraged to submit projects with partial funding from other sources already secured;
. at the end of the first year, selected projects may solicit additional seed funding from JoRISS;
. at the end of the incubating period, successfully matured projects are expected to apply to pursue their development at JoRISS with external financial support;

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Applicants are strongly encouraged to have a preliminary discussion about their projects with one of the JoRISS coordinators (see mails above) before submitting their application.

• Application forms, together with the list of required documents can be found on the “Call for Projects” page of the JoRISS website: https://www.ens-lyon.fr/en/article/research/2024-joriss-call-sino-french-research-projects

Proposals must be submitted to joriss@ens-lyon.fr in PDF format only.