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The National Research Agency (ANR) is a public administrative institution (République Française, French Republic), under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. The Agency implements the financing of research on projects, for public operators in cooperation with each other or with companies.
The ANR was created in 2005 to promote French project-based research and to stimulate innovation by encouraging the emergence of multidisciplinary collaborative projects and by encouraging “public-private” collaborations. It is also about strengthening the positioning of French research at European and global level. The Agency's missions, defined in the decree of 1 August 2006 revised on 24 March 2014, are:
Fund and promote the development of basic and finalized research , technical innovation and technology transfer as well as partnership between the public and private sectors
Implement the programming established by the Minister responsible for Research, who collects the opinions of the ministers supervising research organizations or public higher education establishments
Manage major government investment programs in the field of higher education and research, and monitor their implementation
Strengthen scientific cooperation at European and international levels , by coordinating its programming with European and international initiatives
Analyze the evolution of the research offer and measure the impact of the funding allocated by the Agency on national scientific production
The ANR's action thus aims to support the excellence of French research at varying degrees of technological maturity, to support fundamental research, to encourage academic and "public-private" scientific partnerships, and to promote European and international cooperation . To this end, it proposes competitive calls for projects and implements rigorous selection processes based on peer review, which respect international principles in this area: impartiality, fair treatment, confidentiality, ethics, scientific integrity, and transparency.