Joint funding of Japanese-French research cooperation

Based on the agreement concluded in June 1991 between the Japanese and French governments on cooperation in science and technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) agreed to establish a new scheme for joint funding of Japanese-French cooperative research projects in Japanese Fiscal Year (JFY) 2005. After consultations among JST and CNRS, “Marine Genome and Marine Biotechnology” has been selected as the field of research for which the joint funding scheme will be applied in JFY 2008.

JST shall provide approximately 5 million yen per project per year in average for the activities to be carried out by Japanese researchers, CNRS shall provide approximately 30,000 euro for the activities to be carried out by the French researchers.The cooperative research period shall be 3 years in total.

Press Release [French]
https://dri-dae.cnrs-dir.fr/IMG/pdf/JST_Appel_d_offres_Internet_07072008_V2.pdf

Guidelines for Application of Strategic Japanese-French Cooperative Program on “Marine Genome and Marine Biotechnology”[English]
http://www.jst.go.jp/sicp/guidelines_fr5th.pdf

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
http://www.cnrs.fr/

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