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Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) - Call for Projects 2018
Sponsor: Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation 		Closing Date: 16-Jul-2018
In 2018, the AFRAN Association will offer funding towards logistics and/or travel costs for selected initiatives. This program only funds projects initiated by members of AFRAN. As a consequence, this program does not consider applications for participation in external conferences and seminars, nor applications for individual travel to a partner’s laboratory, unless it is indispensable for the development of such initiatives or activities.

Aims: This year’s call will support initiatives that complement those already eligible for funding under new suite of cooperation support mechanisms provided by the French Embassy in Australia (e.g. mobility, internships, workshops). In 2018, AFRAN will thus fund initiatives or series of smaller, integrated initiatives (e.g. series of network building activities, one-off or series of collaborative research exhibitions or productions, symposia/workshops focussed on community development) designed to federate, build and scale up thematic communities around particular research and innovation areas within the perimeter of AFRAN and/or between France and Australia.

Eligibility
Applications are open to researchers and other professionals of any nationality and seniority level who are members of AFRAN. To be eligible, an initiative must:
1. Be open (within reason and depending on the purpose) to all interested members of AFRAN to participate, AND
2. Aim at creating and/or scaling up a collaborative research and innovation community within AFRAN perimeters and/or between France and Australia. Laureates of this program will not be eligible to reapply for funding for 3 years after the year of the grant awarded. All research fields, including Humanities and Social Sciences are open and coordinators of eligible projects involving French overseas territories are encouraged to apply. Current strategic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Space
• Climate change and biodiversity
• Health
• Agriculture and food
• Artificial intelligence, data and society

Funding
The duration of AFRAN projects is 12 months, with funding of $5,000 AUD per award and a total funding pool of $15,000.

Please see http://afran.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AFRAN-call-for-initiatives-application-form-2018.pdf for further information, noting the application form and all supporting documents (preferably in PDF format) must be submitted before the application deadline by email to: science.canberra-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr.

Key Dates
Call for projects opens: 1 June 2018
Full Applications due to UQR&I: 1 July 2018
Full Application close with AFRAN: 16 July 2018
Results Announced: 31 July 2018
Earliest date for project start: 1 August 2018
Latest date for project completion: 31 July 2019

For UQR&I internal review and feedback, email your application and completed Funding Application Coversheet to your UQR&I Office of Sponsored Research RAO.
Website: http://afran.org.au/2018/

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