INRAE scientists

Submit and/or jointly construct projects

Submit and/or contribute your ideas linked to the metaprogramme’s scientific themes.

The SANBA metaprogramme does not constitute an additional source of funding but is a management tool designed to “go beyond” the work of standard programmes. It was set up by INRAE to foster interdisciplinarity and be able to offer responses to major societal challenges in the fields of animal health and welfare.

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Exploratory projects

  • Innovative, interdisciplinary and potentially risky (with few or no preliminary results)
  • Duration: two years
  • Frequency: every two years
  • Procedure: submission of projects via Calls for Expression of Interest (Appels à Manifestation d’Intérêt, AMI). Go to the most recent calls for projects

Flagship projects

Submit ideas for consortia (networks)

  • Interdisciplinary research networks or multi-actor consortia include non-academic partners. Their aim is to encourage, support and accompany scientific communities or networks linked to the field covered by the metaprogramme. They must produce at least one previously identified deliverable: compilation/organisation of a project, planning/organisation of a seminar/workshop, production of a publication or position paper, etc.
  • Duration: 18 months
  • Procedure: via the AMIs or on an ad hoc basis by directly contacting SANBA managers

Submit PhD projects

  • Joint funding of one or two half-grants for PhD students each year.
  • Frequency: annual
  • Timetable: submission of applications in the autumn each year (September-October depending on the INRAE Division concerned).
  • Procedure for the submission of applications: aligned with those of the INRAE Division to which the applicant is attached. For more information

Receive information

  • SANBA publishes a Newsletter (SANBA-News) that is open to all and provides recent news on the metaprogramme and animal health and welfare at both the national level and worldwide.
  • To subscribe/unsubscribe: send an email to the Management Unit.

Participate in and contribute to different scientific events

See also

For all inquiries, please contact SANBA management