PNR EST call for research proposals on "Environmental and Occupational Health"
On 14 October 2024, ANSES launched its 2025 call for research proposals on the topic "Environmental and Occupational Health".
Issued as part of the National Research Programme for Environmental and Occupational Health (PNR EST), the aim of this call is to support public policy-making. It takes into account the research priorities of the national environmental health, occupational health and cancer plans.
The PNR EST aims to encourage scientific communities to produce data of use in the different phases of health risk assessment, thereby bringing research and scientific expert appraisal closer together. The 2025 call for proposals covers the assessment and analysis of environmental risks to human health, in the general and worker populations. It will also support projects on risks to ecosystems and quality of environmental media. It is focused on research questions raised by ANSES, the ministries and State agencies addressing these topics.
This call for proposals is being financed by ANSES from budgets delegated by the Ministries in charge of the environment, labour, health and agriculture, together with two co-funding partners: ADEME and ITMO Cancer from the Aviesan alliance.
For this 2025 edition of the PNR EST, additional funding will be allocated by the Ministry in charge of the environment to finance research projects on endocrine disruptors.
The selection process will be divided into two stages:
- An initial selection on the basis of letters of intent
- A second round of selection based on complete applications
Two committees are involved. The scientific committee is made up of researchers, and is responsible for evaluating and selecting projects on scientific grounds. The steering committee, made up of representatives of the funding bodies, relevant ministries and other stakeholders, draws up the list of projects to be funded from among those shortlisted by the scientific committee.
The call for proposals and the research questions
The scope and conditions are described in the text of the call for research proposals. It is accompanied by a list of research questions that have been identified as priority areas for potential users of this research. These questions are the topics that this call aims to document.
Certain questions are being given precedence this year as they are of key importance for the steering committee or reflect priorities of the co-funding partners. They are highlighted in red.
Project submission terms
Letters of intent and complete applications must be submitted online using the Iris platform: https://iris.anr.fr/en/login.
Provisional timetable for the call
- 14 October 2024: opening of the call.
- Mid-October 2024: opening of the Iris platform.
- 10 December 2024 at noon: deadline for submitting letters of intent.
- Mid-February 2025: project coordinators informed of the first selection results, based on the letters of intent.
- 25 March 2025 at noon: deadline for submitting complete applications.
- September 2025: publication of the final selection results.
Letters of intent must be submitted online by the scientific project leaders no later than 10 December 2024 at noon (12:00), French time.
For those whose letters of intent are shortlisted, complete applications must be submitted online by the scientific project leaders no later than 25 March 2025 at noon (12:00), French time. The time of the submission deadline must be respected. Acknowledge of receipt of electronic applications will be automatically sent to the scientific project leaders.
Applications that are incomplete, received after the deadline or do not fulfil the eligibility criteria will not be evaluated.
For administrative or scientific information, please contact the Research Funding Unit by email (recherche@anses.fr) or, if needed, by telephone at: +33 (0)1 49 77 23 02 or +33 (0)1 56 29 18 88
Practical recommendations
- Before submission of the letter of intent or the complete application, carefully read the text of the call, and in particular the "eligibility criteria" section and annexes with the relevant research topics and "list of chargeable expenses".
- Once finalised, submit the letter of intent or the complete application to ANSES using the platform (remember to click on the "dépôt" button). You are strongly advised not to wait until the deadline.