- On 15 May next, the call for Exceptional Research Projects (PER) will be opened.
- These research projects will be fundable up to €260,000 each.
- These projects may be grafted onto others already underway in laboratories and university hospitals.
- The fields concerned are not only those of life and health sciences but also those of human and social sciences:
- Epidemiological and translational studies
- Natural history of the disease (including anthropogenic factors) and mode of transmission of the virus
- Diagnosis of infection, asymptomatic carriage, evolution of immune response
- Clinical characterization and management
- Predictive and retrospective numerical models
- Physiopathogeny of the disease (virus-host interactions and immune response)
- Development of animal and cellular models
- Therapeutic Targets and Evaluation Models for Drug Candidates (not including vaccines)
- Infection prevention and control measures in health-care settings (including the best ways to protect health workers) and in community settings
- Vulnerability and resilience of individuals, collectives and organizations
- Conditions of efficiency and actual conditions for implementing information, prevention, care and control measures
- Assessment and modelling of the epidemiological, economic and financial impact of the epidemic and of prevention and control measures
- As well as areas related to geopolitical issues, ethics of research and care and human rights, representations, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours relating to the epidemic and the organization of care, health policy and the acceptability of decisions, as well as the overall economic impacts of the crisis.
- Projects aiming at the development of tests in clinical biology/screening are also eligible.
