Scientific Incentive Grants for Pasteur Network Members

We’re delighted to share two new calls for scientific incentive grants exclusively for the Pasteur Network community!

SPARK call (Seeded Partnerships for Advancing Research & Knowledge)

Funders : Pasteur Network, Institut Pasteur

🔍 Objectives:

• to foster innovative, interdisciplinary projects through collaborative grassroots initiatives
• to reinforce relationships within the Pasteur Network
• to support the next generation of researchers worldwide
• to foster a community of early-career scientists within the PN.

💡 Project Focus:

Projects should catalyze innovation by encouraging exploratory research that pushes boundaries and opens new avenues within the Strategic Plan Pasteur 2030 and/or the scientific pillars of the Pasteur Network.

📅 Key Details:

• Duration: 24 months
• Budget : up to €75,000 – €100,000 + possibility to have a C&Y post doc grant
• Submission deadline: September 8^th, 2025 at 1 pm (Paris time)
• Starting date: at least mid-December 2025
• Coordinators and team leaders must be early-career scientists from member institutes of the Pasteur Network

The goal of this new edition is to enhance the impact of our incentive programs by prioritizing the most innovative, disruptive, and interdisciplinary projects which foster talent development and connections with the Pasteur Network, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.We will also focus on projects that leverage cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. Finally, particular attention will be given to projects that promote sustainability, talent development, entrepreneurship, societal engagement, equity, diversity and inclusion

All information about the above-mentioned call can be found on the SPARK Guidelines

Pasteur Excellence in Research & Leadership Program (PERL)

Funder: Institut Pasteur   

🔍 Objectives: 

The research projects :

• Are cross-disciplinary, bridging multiple scientific fields of expertise
• Foster new collaborations within the Pasteur ecosystem
• Establish novel, high-impact collaborations between Institut Pasteur (IP) scientists and researchers from the Pasteur Network (PN)
• Strengthen interactions between basic, clinical, and translational research by
• Initiating new collaborations with clinicians, particularly through AP-HP;
• Enhancing potential future industrial partnerships

💡 Project Focus:

Projects should be aligned with the priorities of the Strategic Plan Pasteur 2030. However, exceptional projects that open novel research avenues or novel technological developments will also be considered .

📅 Key Details:

• Duration: 36 months with a go/no go review at 24 months
• Budget: up to €300,000 + possibility to have a PRC-PERL Grant
• Submission deadline: June 6, 2025 at 1 pm (Paris time)
• Start date of projects:  At least mid-October, 2025       

All information about the above-mentioned call can be found on the PERL Guidelines.

More information : https://spais.aap.pasteur.fr/public.aspx