The Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives (MITI) aims to promote, animate and coordinate interdisciplinarity at the CNRS, and more particularly the interaction between its ten institutes. In this context, it is launching a joint call for projects in 2023 with IRSN, entitled “Materials, health and measurements: at the heart of nuclear challenges”. Applications can be submitted until December 10 at 12 noon.
CNRS and the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) have a long history of cooperation in the field of nuclear safety. In 2008, they created a joint laboratory, MIST (Laboratoire de Micromécanique et Intégrité des Structures), to study the thermomechanical behavior of materials subjected to harmful environments such as nuclear fuels. Last June, they presented their joint roadmap covering the following topics
- Weathering of component materials and structures,
- Earthquakes and soil-structure interactions,
- Transversal in-situ research in the field of the environment,
- New nuclear techniques for health,
- Sensors and metrology,
- Software platforms and simulation.
A call for projects to support the IRSN-CNRS roadmap
This partnership aims to be a tool that serves the respective strategic objectives of IRSN and CNRS.
The call for projects will thus encourage exploratory and interdisciplinary research by setting up collaborative projects covering the themes of the roadmap.
To this end, it combines the mechanisms set up by MITI to support interdisciplinary research programs and cross-disciplinary initiatives within CNRS and those deployed by IRSN to encourage innovation and creativity among its researchers in the context of its exploratory research program.
Themes covered by the 2023 call for proposals
This call is more specifically targeted on the following priority themes
- Material alteration of components and structures;
- New nuclear techniques for health;
- Sensors and metrology.
Eligibility criteria
The call is open to any proposal submitted jointly by a permanent IRSN researcher and a permanent researcher belonging to a CNRS unit (research officer, research director, lecturer, professor, research engineer).
The consortia formed must include at least one IRSN research unit and one CNRS unit. In the case of larger consortia, the involvement of units attached to different CNRS institutes will be encouraged.
If necessary, the consortium may also involve partners from research organizations other than CNRS and IRSN, foreign partners or industrialists, but these will not be eligible for funding.
The key selection criteria will be:
- The relevance of the project will be judged in relation to the themes of the IRSN-CNRS roadmap selected for the call;
- Originality and innovation: the call for proposals is intended to encourage work of an exploratory nature and, as such, encourages the use of ideas and approaches that are disruptive or involve risk-taking;
- Interdisciplinarity: the interdisciplinarity and transverse nature of the project will be judged through the diversity of the contributing teams and the skills to be used.
Registration procedures
The proposal will be submitted in agreement with the management of the IRSN and CNRS applicants’ units.
The project leader must pre-register on the Limesurvey application. He or she will receive an automatic pre-registration email containing a personalized link to apply.
LimeSurvey link
https://survey.miti.cnrs.fr/limesurvey/index.php/569422?lang=fr
Translated from Le CNRS et l’IRSN lancent l’APP « Matériaux, santé et mesures : au cœur des défis du nucléaire »
