Created in 2010, the Joint Research Institute for Science and Society is a without walls research structure designed to foster scientific research collaborations between ECNU, ENS de Lyon as a member of the Université de Lyon (UDL), and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

JoRISS acts primarily as:

• an incubator for new research projects over a 1 to 2 year long period
• a platform for long term development of projects previously incubated within or independently of JoRISS

For more details:

• see the JoRISS website
• or contact the JoRISS coordinators:
  • Prof. Shuguang KUAI : sgkuai [at] psy.ecnu.edu.cn
  • Prof. Jean-Michel Roy: jean-michel.roy [at] ens-lyon.fr (jean-michel[dot]roy[at]ens-lyon[dot]fr)

 All research projects must be jointly headed by two investigators: one affiliated with ECNU and one affiliated with ENS de Lyon.
 Complementary participation as team members of investigators from other institutions than ECNU and ENS de Lyon is possible. 
 

Project content

1) Projects may be submitted under one of the 2 following content categories:

A. Projects dealing with the 2024 priority domain:

     THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
    Projects can address any aspect of the impact of the development of artificial intelligence on society.

B. Free topic Projects:
    The 14th Call is also open, without any topic limitations, to all research projects satisfying the JoRISS conditions of eligibility.

 2) General guidelines:
-    The Call is open to all disciplines. 
-    Projects with an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary perspective are encouraged.

Project type

In contrast with previous calls, the 14th Call is limited to new incubating projects, excluding in particular applications for extension of incubating projects already funded in 2022.

New Incubating Projects characteristics:

• JoRISS provides up to 30 000 euros per project in seed money for the incubation of a new research project;
• 50% of the funding obtained is provided by ECNU to the Chinese members of the research project, and 50%to the French members of the research project by ENS de Lyon. 
• Funds can be used for a maximum period of 24 months on both sides (however, use of funds can be limited to a 12-month period in certain cases);
• Project leaders must commit themselves to seek further subsidies from national and international funding agencies in the course of the incubating period, and are also strongly encouraged to submit projects with partial funding from other sources already secured; 
• at the end of the first year, selected projects may solicit additional seed funding from JoRISS; 
• at the end of the incubating period, successfully matured projects are expected to apply to pursue their development at JoRISS with external financial support;

Special attention will be paid to the following criteria in the selection process: 
-    number of doctoral students involved in the project; 
-    number of high standard scientific publications authored by the investigators in the area of the project; 
-    amount of seed funding already secured;
-    adequacy with the strategic scientific orientations of each partnering 
     institution.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to have a preliminary discussion about their projects with one of the JoRISS coordinators (see mails above) before submitting their application.

• Application forms can be found in the "Documents" section.

• Proposals must include:

-    the application form downloaded from the JoRISS website;
-    a description of the project not exceeding 10 pages and including all crucial information, such as:  brief history of previous and/or existing collaborations, agenda of realization of the project, detailed list of involved investigators, specific relevance of a Sino-French cooperation, originality in the field, expected scientific and institutional impacts, long term perspectives and potential beyond incubating period;
-    a detailed budget, specifying the breakdown of the total amount into standard category of expenses (travel, stay, instruments…) and the anticipated distribution of expenses between France-based investigators and China-based investigators;
-    a short curriculum vitae of the two project leaders emphasizing their scientific competences and achievements related to the project.
 

Proposal must be submitted to joriss [at] ens-lyon.fr (joriss[at]ens-lyon[dot]fr) in PDF format only.