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"ANR-NRF Joint Call for Projects on Artificial Intelligence for Biotechnology for Binational France-South Korea Research Consortia" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
This is a bilateral France-South Korea call funding 36-month collaborative research projects that combine artificial intelligence with biotechnology, run jointly by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the National Research Foundation of Korea, with a submission deadline of 4 June 2026.
Four thematic domains are named: AI in biotechnology covering bioinformatics, genomics, biomedical imaging, drug discovery and personalised medicine; agricultural and industrial innovation covering precision agriculture, bioprocess optimisation and sustainable biotechnology; advanced research covering diagnostic and therapeutic tools and data-driven modelling of biological systems; and ethical AI covering explainable models and transparent algorithms.
Every proposal must be built as a genuine binational partnership with at least one French and one Korean partner and a designated scientific coordinator in each country.
The mechanic that catches applicants out is the mirrored submission: partners must prepare substantively identical proposals and submit them separately to the ANR and NRF platforms, each under that agency's own national eligibility and budget rules, and a proposal that succeeds at one agency but fails the other's formal checks does not get funded.
This call sits in a growing cluster of Korea bilateral AI instruments - NRF also runs joint calls with Sweden on AI in life sciences and with Germany on engineering sciences - and teams should pick the bilateral track whose partner country matches their existing collaborator rather than attempting several.
The AI-plus-biotech framing is comparatively specific, so purely methodological AI proposals without a biological application are poorly matched.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to research institutions and organisations in France and South Korea only. Each proposal requires a minimum of one French partner and one Korean partner, with one scientific coordinator appointed per country. Projects run for 36 months. Funding is provided separately by ANR and NRF to their respective national teams under each agency's own rules, so each national budget must be independently viable; funds are not pooled or transferable across the partnership. Applicants must form the binational partnership, develop an integrated AI-and-biotechnology proposal, prepare identical proposals for both countries, and submit separately to the ANR and NRF platforms. The deadline is 4 June 2026. Research must fall within the four named domains: AI in biotechnology (bioinformatics, genomics, biomedical imaging, drug discovery, personalised medicine); agricultural and industrial innovation (precision agriculture, bioprocess optimisation, sustainable biotechnology); advanced research (diagnostic and therapeutic tools, data-driven modelling); and ethical AI (explainable models, transparent algorithms). Per-project funding ceilings are not published in the call summary, so applicants must confirm the applicable national budget limits and eligible cost rules directly with ANR and NRF before preparing budgets. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows ANR and NRF do not publish a per-project ceiling for this call; each agency funds its own national team separately under its standard bilateral rules, so the figures in amount_min and amount_max are an inference from ANR's usual envelope for international collaborative projects (PRCI), typically on the order of 300,000 to 500,000 euros for the French side, roughly 351,000 to 585,000 US dollars at 1.17 dollars to the euro. Treat these as indicative only and confirm against the published call text before budgeting. The structural point matters more than the headline number: because funding is disbursed separately by each agency to its own national team, the French and Korean budgets are neither pooled nor transferable, and each side must be independently viable. A consortium cannot solve a shortfall on the Korean side by shifting French budget across, which is the most common planning error in agency-to-agency bilateral calls of this type. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was June 4, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
ANR-NRF Joint Call for Projects on Artificial Intelligence for Biotechnology for Binational France-South Korea Research Consortia is funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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