Status:Closed

Opening date: 1 November 2020

Closing date: 15 December 2020

AAP RESEARCH

Context

This call for proposals aims to support innovative, collaborative research projects. The call comprises a "classic" main component for funding research projects, and two complementary components designed to encourage the development of international exchanges and the training-research link. For the main component, the grant can be up to 30,000 euros. The Internationally complementary component can fund the stay of a foreign researcher (up to a maximum of 6,000 euros), while the Research component can fund an educational initiative based on the research project (up to a maximum of 6,000 euros).

  • Projects last 16 months.
  • The total budget for the main component is 180,000 euros.

Eligibility criteria

Research theme

IMI gives priority to the collaborative nature of projects within the Institute. This call for proposals is open to all research topics, and all subjects dealt with within the Institute are eligible. Multi-disciplinary and inter-laboratory projects are encouraged. The call for proposals must include details of the project's scientific background, research program and expected spin-offs.

Research team

Projects must indicate the name of a correspondent with whom the Institute's management will correspond. The entire team must be presented. The complementary nature of the team must be detailed. The role of non-permanent staff involved in the project (interns, PhD students, post docs) must also be specified. This call for proposals will not fund human resources (PhD students or post-docs, for example). It may, however, fund internship stipends.

Eligible expenses

The main part of the call for proposals is designed to finance the operating and capital expenditure required to carry out the proposed scientific project. All expenses must be detailed, and in particular missions (from and/or to the institute) and expenses for internships. A quotation (or list price) must be provided for equipment purchases (any item costing more than 800 euros excluding VAT, unit value). When estimating the financial cost of the project, it is possible to include additional external funding. In this case, you need to specify the amount and whether it has already been obtained, applied for or is to be applied for.
 

Calendar

  • Application deadline: April 03, 2020
  • Announcement of results: April 24, 2020

Contact

If you have any questions: cedric.fages@univ-amu.fr

Awardees

  • Awardee

    2020
    Call for Research projects

    CROCS - Restaurant Concept Optimized for Solar Cooking

    Project leader(s)
    Thomas FASQUELLE
    Laboratory(s)
    IUSTI
    Call for Research projects

    CROCS - Restaurant Concept Optimized for Solar Cooking

    Project leader(s)
    Thomas FASQUELLE
    Laboratory(s)
    IUSTI

    Le Présage is a restaurant to be built in 2021 at the Château-Gombert Technopole in Marseille. The restaurant will combine a Scheffler solar-concentrating reflector with a low-energy building to provide a pleasant place to eat high-quality, carbon-free food. A collaboration with the IUSTI laboratory has begun to work experimentally (with a prototype) and numerically on optics, improved heat transfer and thermal energy storage.

    Further information

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2020
    Call for Research projects

    THEOS - Theranostic ultrasound perspectives for pediatric bone diseases

    Project leader(s)
    Philippe LASAYGUES
    Laboratory(s)
    LMA, IRPHE & IUSTI
    Call for Research projects

    THEOS - Theranostic ultrasound perspectives for pediatric bone diseases

    Project leader(s)
    Philippe LASAYGUES
    Laboratory(s)
    LMA, IRPHE & IUSTI

    Monitoring skeletal growth in children is essential for early diagnosis and therapeutic follow-up of pediatric bone pathologies. Relevant research topics include the evaluation of the mechanical characterization of bone quality in children, the development of a high-resolution parametric ultrasound modality, and the use of ultrasound stimulation as a therapeutic treatment.

    Further information

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2020
    Call for Research projects

    MONSTER - MOdelliNg and forecaSting pf exTreme wave Events in the coastal aRea

    Project leader(s)
    Malek ABID
    Laboratory(s)
    IRPHE & IUSTI
    Call for Research projects

    MONSTER - MOdelliNg and forecaSting pf exTreme wave Events in the coastal aRea

    Project leader(s)
    Malek ABID
    Laboratory(s)
    IRPHE & IUSTI

    The study of extreme waves is a challenging problem for safety reasons and as an open problem in nonlinear physics. To date, no study in the framework of fully nonlinear governing equations has examined the dynamics of extreme ocean waves in the presence of vertically sheared currents in water of arbitrary depth. The aim of the present work is to address this problem within the framework of mathematical modelling, numerical simulations and experimental studies.

    Further information

    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2020
    Call for Research projects

    D2LIFE - second life for digestate

    Project leader(s)
    Cristian BARCA
    Laboratory(s)
    M2P2
    Call for Research projects

    D2LIFE - second life for digestate

    Project leader(s)
    Cristian BARCA
    Laboratory(s)
    M2P2

    Very few studies have focused on the recovery of mineral fractions (e.g. phosphorus, metals), and the interaction mechanisms between mineral and organic compounds during hydrothermal liquefaction are still unclear. This project aims to understand the behavior of mineral compounds and to describe their distribution between the different phases resulting from hydrothermal liquefaction of residual biomass, with a particular focus on phosphorus (P).

    Further information

    See the associated call for project