* $ 2 billion, to be distributed by
ANR on a project basis, for science, innovation in higher education, and grants to bring top French talent abroad back home.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, whereas French research groups traditionally have received national public funding mostly through their own research agency or university and through specific calls from French ministries, several national agencies have been set up to fund more research
projects on a nationwide competitive
basis, such as the Agence National de la Recherche (
ANR) or the Institut National du Cancer.
The concept isn't really a break with tradition, Bloch insists:
ANR takes the place of two funds, now dissolved, which doled out money
on a
project - by -
project basis: the National Fund for Science and the Fund for Technological Research.