PARIETAL Team
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Inria’s European and International Partnerships Department (EIPD) launches the 2017 call for Inria Associate Teams.
An Associate Team is a joint research project created between an Inria project-team and a research team from abroad. The two partners jointly define a scientific objective with a clear added value for each of them, a research plan and a program for bilateral exchanges.
Successfull proposals are created for a period of three years and are awarded a grant from Inria in the range of 10 000 – 13 000€ /year.
Application guidelines
An Associate Team proposal must be edited and submitted by the French PI via the dedicated Web site at:
https://drisi.inria.fr/eaEquipeAssociee/new
Proposals will be evaluated by Inria’s COST-GTRI[1] according to the following criteria:
- Scientific excellence of the project (motivation of the general problems, identification of the main challenges, intended approaches/methodologies/ techniques);
- Balanced participation of researchers from various career stages and contribution to fostering young researchers’ participation;
- Relevance and consistency of the mobility and work program;
- Expected results and impact of the joint project for each partner (mutual advancement of research through the transfer of knowledge and expertise);
- Contribution of the foreign partner to the budget of the Associate Team;
- Strategy to obtain other funding, in particular from the H2020 framework programme.
[1] Scientific Committee in charge of project evaluations.
Associate Teams with California partners are supported in the framework of Inria@SiliconValley and a partnership with CITRIS supports Inria-CITRIS Associate Teams (see below)
Associate Teams with California
The aim of the Inria@SiliconValley program is to strengthen and structure existing collaborations between Inria and its partners in California, and support new innovative projects.
As such, Inria@SiliconValley fosters the creation of Associate teams between Inria research teams and California partners.
Coordinated by the EIPD with an Inria senior scientist based full time in California, Inria@SiliconValley offers:
- A dedicated website to promote joint research activities, funding opportunities (French and US), news etc.
- The HAL INRIA-SiliconValley Collection that gathers all the publications related to the program.
- A monthly newsletter to inform the community and communicate at large about the initiatives arising from the collaborations.
- The organization of an annual workshop to exchange about ongoing collaborations and investigate opportunities for new ones. Obviously, the participation of the Inria@SiliconValley associate teams is key and the related expenses need to be budgeted by the teams. In 2017, the 2-to-3-day workshop will take place in California. The EIPD will inform as soon as possible the associate teams’ Principal Investigators about the workshop’s tentative dates (the workshop usually takes place around May/June) so that teams can plan ahead if they wish to organize a co-located working meeting with their collaborators.
- EIPD programs targeted to Inria-California cooperation (sabbatical, post-doc, International Chair etc.).
- Support for innovation activities in relation with the local eco-system (e.g., see the partnership with NETVA in 2016).
Inria-CITRIS Partnership: Associate Teams with CITRIS (Berkeley)
Acknowledging the fruitful collaboration between Inria and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), as well as the need to increase the leverage of the seed funding provided by Inria@SiliconValley, we invite proposals for ambitious collaborative projects between Inria and CITRIS PIs.
The targeted projects will be elaborated and submitted in the context of the Associate Team program whose detail is provided above on this webpage. The concrete implementation of the project must also consider support by complementary grants to be applied for, in the first years of the Associate Team.
In that direction, successful Associate Team applicants may submit proposals to the CITRIS Seed Funding program (http://citris-uc.org/citris-seed-funding/), provided the proposals meet the program’s requirements:
- The research focus must meet Inria and CITRIS themes (http://citris-uc.org/core-initiatives/)
- The proposal should involve at least 2 CITRIS PIs from 2 different CITRIS Campuses (i.e., from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz); one of them being obviously the co-PI of the Associate Team.
For further information, feel free to contact:
- Valérie Issarny, Scientific coordinator of Inria@SiliconValley.
- Camille Crittenden, CITRIS deputy director.
Important dates:
The submission deadline for the 2016 Associate Team call is September 30, 2016
Inria Associate Teams results will be published by the end of January, 2017
Details and submission: http://www.inria.fr/en/research/international-mobility/associate-teams/call-for-projects
