Each year, funding applications to support staff exchanges between French and Japanese teams of scientists wishing to pursue research together can be submitted to the TYL-FJPPL.

Collaborative projects supported by the TYL-FJPPL should be led jointly by a French and a Japanese staff scientist of the CNRS, CEA, KEK or one of the participating universities. Both emerging activities and new initiatives within existing projects can be supported. Joint training of young staff and students is encouraged, both through secondment periods in the partner team and co-supervised theses. Projects can be resubmitted at most three times. When re-submitted, a report on the activities in the elapsed year must be provided. If two teams wish to continue their collaboration beyond four years, they should submit a new proposal, with a new title and an evolution in the content, as well as new leaders.

Please be aware that funding from the TYL-FJPPL is too limited to cover the basic needs of the involved teams to pursue their research activity. It is only intended as a complement supporting the additional costs of cooperation between France and Japan in the context of a project or initiative defined jointly. Therefore, the requested amounts should be justified in terms of reasonable (and, depending on the project, balanced) levels of exchange between the French and Japanese partner teams towards achieving their common goals.

The timeline is usually as follows:
- deadline for applications in the middle of January
- independent evaluation by French and Japanese reviewers from January to May
- exchange of opinions on each project within the Steering Committee, followed by funding decisions
- allocation of French and Japanese funds in June

Evaluation criteria have been agreed by the Steering Committee:

• Scientific and technical quality of the foreseen research program. In case of re-application, progress made in the elapsed year, including publications, reports, communication to conferences,...
  
• Quality of the collaboration in terms of scientific and technical exchanges between the French and Japanese partners, task definition and assignments, complementarity, joint publications and reports, joint training of junior staff and students,...
  
• Expected impact of the TYL-FJPPL framework for the described activity. Justification for the funds requested to support the proposed exchanges between French and Japanese teams.
  

The 2014 "Call for proposal" application is now closed.

For questions or enquiries on the TYL-FJPPL staff exchange program, please contact one of the Directors or Steering Committee members.

-- PhilipBambade - 2014-06-19