French Guiana is a privileged territory for developing research
projects in ecology and environment. In 1986, the CNRS
Nouragues Ecological Research Station was established in an
undisturbed forest of central French Guiana to study the
dynamics of plant and animal populations. The Research Station
is a permanent field equipment of the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France). It is accessed by boat or
by helicopter only. Housing, food supply, electricity, laboratory
space, and satellite internet access are available at the Station.
For more information, see http://www.nouragues.cnrs.fr
The present Call for Proposals is aimed at facilitating access to the Nouragues Station
for scientists of all research fields. Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and
established scientists may apply. Submitted
proposals will be evaluated by a Science
Advisory Board and selected based on their
excellence,
the
quality
of
expected
publications, and the feasibility of the project.
The grants will not exceed 9,000€ in total,
and will be for a duration of one year.
Reapplications will be evaluated based on the
achievements of the previous years. Grant
recipients will be expected to provide a
scientific and financial report one month after
the end of the fieldwork. They will also be
expected to contribute to the dissemination of
knowledge in French Guiana, via participation in outreach programs of the
collaborating Nouragues Natural Reserve. In 2014, experimental projects will be
especially considered.
Grants will cover travel expenses by the participants, including air flight costs,
housing in Cayenne, transportation to the Nouragues Station, and lodging fees at the
Station. Laboratory analyses and equipment costs are not eligible for funding.
Applicants should follow the submission guidelines attached to this document.
Deadline for application: March 7th, 2014
Results of the selection process: Early April 2014
Applications should be sent as a single PDF file, only by email
(amaya.pelozuelo@univ-tlse3.fr). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Requests for further information should be directed to jerome.chave@univ-tlse3.fr
– Nouragues Travel Grants Program –
Nouragues Ecological Research Station CNRS
2014
1. Introduction
The Nouragues Ecological Research Station is located within a Natural Reserve in a pristine lowland
tropical moist forest with no recent history of human disturbance. Since 2007, the CNRS has been
funding annual travel grants. Grants will be awarded based on the quality of the proposed research
and the funds will be used solely to permit free access to the infrastructure (including travel from the
travel place to French Guiana and to the Station, and housing fees at the Station).
In 2014, experimental projects will be especially considered.
All publications resulting from this call should acknowledge the funding bodies as follows: ‘This work
has benefited from French funding managed by Agence Nationale de la Recherche’s Investissement
d’Avenir program referenced ANR-11-INBS-0001AnaEE-Services and Labex CEBA ANR-10-LABX-2501).’
2. Submission guidelines
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Total funding should not exceed 9,000€ per project. Projects are expected to be completed by
the end of 2014.
The file should be submitted as a single file in PDF format.
Please remove pages 1 and 2 of the present Word document and remove the
commentaries (in dark blue and italics) before transforming it to a PDF file.
The first and foremost criterion is the scientific quality and novelty of the project.
The proposal should make it clear that the funded research will be carried out at the
Nouragues Ecological Research Station.
3. Submission schedule
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Projects must be submitted before March 7th 2014
The decision will be communicated in early April 2014, and the funds will be available soon
thereafter. The funds will be managed by CNRS-Guyane.
A scientific report should be sent by the end of the project. A second year of funding is
contingent on a resubmission and a justification of the achievements in year 1.
How to submit your proposal
Please send your project as a single attachment in PDF to: Amaia Iribar
amaya.pelozuelo@univ-tlse3.fr
Deadline: March 7th, 2014 noon Cayenne time
For questions: please email Jérôme Chave (jerome.chave@univ-tlse3.fr)
Nouragues Travel Grant Program 2014
Response form
1. Administrative details
1.1. Proposal title:
Please use a clear and explicit title describing the proposed research. Please do not assume prior knowledge of your
research area.
1.2. Acronym:
1.3. Brief CV of the principal investigator:
Name:
Email:
Full professional address:
Education:
Current and previous employments:
Recent research funding:
Significant recent publications (5 max.):
1.4. List of the participating labs/research units:
Here only briefly state the names of the teams involved in the proposed research, if more than one
(university/institute, town, country). If need be, please provide more details in section 6.
1.5. Total support requested:
Report only the total amount here. More details are requested below (see section 7). The total amount should not
exceed 9,000 €
2. Executive summary (max. ½ page)
3. Non-technical summary of the expected results (max. ½ page)
Participants of this program are expected to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in French Guiana, via
participation in outreach programs of the collaborating Nouragues Natural Reserve.
In this section, please provide a non-technical summary of the proposed research. A litteral translation into French
could be used to disseminate the proposed research by the Natural Reserve.
4. State of the art (max. 1 page)
Please provide the context and objectives of the proposed research in relation to the recent literature, paying
particular attention to why this project is likely to be transformative. Citations and references should follow
guidelines for the journal Science (list references in section 8).
5. Scientific project description (max. 2 pages)
Please provide: objectives, program, expected results and timeline. To cite literature, see advice on guidelines in
section 4.
6. Consortium description
Staff involved in the project, including professional address and email.
Qualification and contribution of each partner (one sentence each).
7. Budget
The total amount should be equal to the value reported in section 1.5 (max: 9,000€). Only travel and per diem costs
are eligible.
Daily air flights to Cayenne are operating from Paris and from Miami. Please check online or with a travel agency
when preparing this budget.
A one-way trip Cayenne-Nouragues costs ca. 1300€ for 5 people by helicopter and ca. 900€ for 8 people by boat.
CNRS-Guyane will take care of optimizing the helicopter rotations so as to minimize the costs of the funded projects.
Per diem expenses eligible for CNRS missions are 90€/day in French Guiana, including 15.75€/meal (lunch and
dinner) and 54€/hotel night. Housing in Cayenne is possible at the CNRS house in Matoury (same per diem cost as
at the Station, see below).
Per diem station fees are 20€/day for students and 35€/day for permanent (tenured) staff researchers.
Ground transportation within French Guiana should be budgeted (Félix Eboué airport is 14km from downtown
Cayenne, and 5 km from the CNRS house in Matoury).
As a very rough indication, a project with 4 permanent researchers travelling from Europe during 14 days in French
Guiana, including 4 air flight tickets at 900€/pers , 2 days in Cayenne (90€/day/pers.), the rental of one car during
2 days (200€), 12 full days at the station (35€/day/pers.), and two round trips by helicopter, will cost ca. 8,400€.
Please feel free to adapt the table below to the proposed research.
Unit cost
Air flight travel
Transport Cayenne-Nouragues
Per diem in Cayenne
Car rental
Per diem at the Nouragues
station
Total
8. References
Nb units
Total cost
Annex. Members of the Nouragues scientific board
Laboratory
Last name
First name
ECOFOG
U Wageningen
EDB
ONF
CNRS-Guyane
CNRS-Guyane
U Vienna
CNRS Montpellier
CNRS Paris
ECOFOG
IRD Montpellier
CNRS Grenoble
Baraloto
Bongers
Chave
Delaval
Fouquet
Gaucher
Hödl
Jarne
Le Galliard
Orivel
Sabatier
Taberlet
Christopher
Frans
Jérôme
Marguerite
Antoine
Philippe
Walter
Philippe
Jean-François
Jérôme
Daniel
Pierre