The Risk Research Programme, led by BRGM, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes, aims to formalise a “science of risk” in order to contribute to the development of a new strategy for risk and disaster management and for addressing their impacts in the context of global, anthropogenic and climate change.
To meet this challenge, which is intensified by climate disruption, the chosen approach brings together geosciences, climate and environmental sciences, engineering, data and digital sciences, as well as the social sciences and humanities, in order to foster convergence through the consolidation of knowledge and the development of inter- and transdisciplinary methodological approaches.
Objective: to better detect, understand, quantify, anticipate and manage risks and disasters in all their complexity.
Objectives of the call
The purpose of this call is to collect proposals for the organisation of the 2026 international research school, with the aim of reviewing recent scientific advances in one or more disciplines related to risk science and contributing to the dissemination of new knowledge to early-career and senior researchers.
Proposals must align with the research themes of the Risk Programme as defined in the various targeted projects, as well as within the framework of the call for expressions of interest on “Climate Risks” and the call for proposals of the PEPR Risks programme.
The research school is expected to have a strong international dimension (particularly European), notably through the participation of foreign researchers as speakers and/or participants.
Organisation of the call
The call will be conducted in two phases:
- submission of a letter of intent proposing a consortium of partners responsible for the organisation, based on a credible and well-argued programme, by 2 February 2026 at the latest;
- selection of one of the submitted letters, which will receive the funding allocated by the INTERRISK project.
Eligibility
- Potential beneficiaries of the funding are higher education and/or research institutions, as well as public industrial and commercial establishments. Companies and local authorities may participate as partners but will not be eligible for funding.
- Proposals for a European research school must fall within at least one of the thematic areas covered by the targeted projects, the call for expressions of interest and the call for proposals of the Risk Programme, and must address innovative and cross-cutting research questions.
- Proposals should be designed with a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity, in particular through knowledge sharing across disciplines and the implementation of interdisciplinary research approaches.
- They must include innovative educational components (tutorials, practical sessions, simulations or experimental activities, etc.).
- The European research school must have a minimum duration of three days and be held in person, with at least 30 participants (adequate hosting capacity and supervision must therefore be ensured).
- The participation of foreign researchers (particularly from Europe) is encouraged.
- Proposals that would cause significant harm from an environmental perspective are also excluded, in accordance with the DNSH (Do No Significant Harm) principle, as defined in Article 17 of the European Taxonomy Regulation.