Supporting science



Agropolis Fondation Grant for scientific platforms

Agropolis Fondation provides support to the establishment and strengthening of scientific platforms and projects that are of excellent quality, original and innovative. It supports relevant research projects that foster strong linkages between the Foundation’s research units, with strong international partnership dimension and those that promote the interaction between social and bio-technical sciences while at the same time with high potential to contribute to addressing socio-economic and sustainable development issues.

Agropolis Fondation Support Award for Scientific platforms and projects

  • Objective
  • Organization of new platforms
  • Reinforcement, integration, networking or rationalization of existing platforms

Eligibility criteria

  • Opening up of the platform to foreign scientists
  • Resources and products to be made freely available with non exclusive access
  • Project hosted in Montpellier or Avignon

Evaluation criteria

  • Scientific quality: originality, innovativeness, feasibility
  • Fostering strong linkages (i.e., interactions across various research units, interaction between social and bio-technical sciences as well as between temperate, Mediterranean and tropical issues, extent of partnership in particular with Southern and Mediterranean areas)
  • International character
  • Relevance to socio-economic and sustainable development issues
  • Added-value

Evaluation process

  • 2-stage