Generic Call for Proposals (AAPG)

AAPG — Generic for Proposals

Funds French organizations through ANR's broad flagship call in multiple priority research themes.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The 2026 Generic Call for Proposals (AAPG 2026) is the French National Research Agency's (ANR) primary annual funding call, open to all scientific communities and all public and private research actors in France. It is structured across 57 research themes — 38 covering seven main scientific fields and 19 covering trans- or interdisciplinary challenges — each corresponding to a dedicated Scientific Evaluation Panel (CES). Researchers select one theme at pre-proposal submission, and that choice is binding throughout the selection process. The call deploys five funding instruments: JCJC (young-researcher single PI); PRME (ambitious single-team project); PRC (national academic collaboration); PRCE (national collaboration with at least one enterprise partner); and PRCI (bilateral international collaboration with a partner foreign agency).

AAPG 2026 ran a two-stage process: Step 1 closed on 15 October 2025 at 17:00 Paris time; Step 2 closed on 26 March 2026 at 17:00 CET. The rebuttal stage opened in the last week of May 2026, with first results (JCJC, PRME, PRC, PRCE) published from June 2026 and PRCI results from September through December 2026 according to each bilateral agency's schedule. Active bilateral PRCI collaborations for 2026 include DFG (Germany), FWF (Austria), CNPq, FACEPE and FAPESP (Brazil), RGC (Hong Kong), FNR (Luxembourg), FRQ (Quebec), FNS (Switzerland), and NSTC (Taiwan). The Franco-American PRCI (NSF lead, covering Biology and Health, Quantum Technologies, and Digital Sciences) was suspended pending resolution of the US shutdown. Projects ranked on the complementary list in AAPG 2025 are automatically reinvited to Step 2 of AAPG 2026 if resubmitted at Step 1 with the same coordinator, instrument and title.

For PRCE projects, Step 1 was simplified in 2026 to require only an online project characterisation form and CV upload — no full scientific document — with eligible registrations automatically invited to Step 2 without scientific scoring at Step 1. All consortia under PRC, PRCE and PRCI instruments must include at least one French public academic research laboratory. A coordinator may be involved in a maximum of three AAPG proposals in total — one coordinator role plus two partnerships, or three partnerships. Grant agreements commence from July 2026 for instruments with June 2026 results. Recruitment of committee chairs for AAPG 2027 was already underway by April 2026, with the chair selection window closing 16 June 2026.