Calls for projects
The Fund makes a global annual donation of around 2 million euros to innovative research projects.
Eligible applicants are research institutes with a high level of excellence and international scope situated within one of the European Union [1].
N.B. Please note that the Fund does not cover the cost of infrastructures or physical renovations.
[1] Or in Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and Singapore.
Results of 2010 campaign
IMPORTANT: The AXA Research Fund's Calls for projects 2010 campaign has been closed since April 15.
Results for this campaign are available here.
INSERM - Biomedicine - Innovative Project
To combat dependence with a novel approach against the TAU protein abnormalities of dementias.
Project Leader: Etienne Baulieu
24 months
University of Basel - Technology to assist the Disabled
Emerging biomedical risk with ageing (e.g. vision, sleep and cognition).
Impact of cataract surgery and intra-ocular lens replacement on endocrine and molecular circadian rhythms, sleep and cognitive function in older adults.
Project Leader: Christian Cajochen
36 months
INSERM - Autophagy for longevity - Innovative Project
Longevity and aging: basic mechanisms in model organisms
Project Leader: Guido Kroemer
36 months
Results of 2009 campaign
The results of the 2009 Calls for Projects are available.
Please click here for the list of selected candidates
INSERM - Longevity - Oldest Old Project (5-COOP)
Project entitle "Relationships between the level of mortality selection and the health status of the oldest old: The Five Country"
Project Leader: Jean-Marie Robine
Support: 588 000€ for 2 years
April 2010 - University of Leeds - Climate Change
AXA Project on assessing model uncertainties in climate projections of severe European windstorms
Project Leader: Peter Knippertz
Support: 450 000€ for 3 years
April 2010 - London School of Economics - Long-Term Care
The AXA Research Project on "How can private long-term care insurance supplement state systems? The UK as a case study."
Project Leader: Raphael Wittenberg
Support: 300 000€ for 2,5 years
April 2010 - University of Exeter - Climate Change
The AXA Research Project European windstorms in a Changing Climate: Storm Tracks, Clustering and Multi-peril Extremes
Project Leader: David Stephenson
Support: 275 000€ for 3 years
March 2010 - MET Office - Climate Change
AXA Project on the Evolution of Hail Storms over Europe in a Changing Climate
Project Leader: Michael Sanderson
Support: 240 000€ for 33 months
April 2010 - London Business School - Adaptability of organizations
The AXA Research Project on Covenants in Private and Public debt contracts and their effects on corporate performance.
Project Leader: Florin Vasvari
Support: 83 000€ for 3 years
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Creation of a 3 years Research Program called «AXA Research Programme on Risk Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions» directed by Prof. David Webb
Institute of Meteorology of Berlin
Donation of €300 000 to a project on the impact of Climate Change on large-scale European floodings
Queen's University of Belfast
donation of € 350 000 to a project on the impacts and dynamics of Marine Aliens in the context of climate change under the supervision of Prof. Christine Maggs
Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Donation of 200 000 € to the projet « The economics and psychology of risk taking, impatience and financial decisions : confronting survey, experimental and insurance data » under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marc Tallon
Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona
donation of € 100 000 to a project dedicated to Assessing the Risk of Civil conflicts, under the supervision of Prof. Joan Esteban
EDHEC Business School, Lille
donation of €150 000 to a project covering a Structural Approach on Inflation and Term Structure, under the supervision of Stéphane Grégoir