News | 12.11.2024: Master's internship grants; if you are proposing an internship (at Master 2 level) on digital collaboration - and have already identified a candidate - we can finance 6-month internship grants.

• Your student will also be able to take part in events reserved for the eNSEMBLE community (workshops, project meetings, etc.).
• To apply, follow the steps on this form (to be completed directly by the internship supervisor).
• We will first check your eligibility (the candidate must be based in a laboratory where one of the governing bodies is one of the PC's partner institutions), then we will ask you for information about the internship (title, abstract, supervisors) and the applicant. If you have any questions, please send an email to sebastien.dubos@universite-paris-saclay.fr (PEPR eNSEMBLE programme manager).
• Applications are possible until 28 November 2024 (for internships starting in February - March 2025 at the earliest). A second application campaign will be launched in January 2025, for internships starting in April or later.

News | 29.10.2024: The annual eNSEMBLE Research Programme Day will be held on 20 January 2025 at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (Paris 14). It will be followed by the Winter School (21-22 January), reserved for doctoral students and their supervisors. Programme and Registration (you can use your SciencesConf or HAL login to connect, or create a local account. This will enable us to send you programme updates and practical information to help you organise your day(s)).

• The annual eNSEMBLE research programme (PEPR) day - on 20 January - is open to anyone interested in the study of digital tools for human collaboration (registration is mandatory). The programme will include: plenary and parallel sessions (thematic), year in review, scientific reports on Targeted Projects (PCs), invited keynotes, pitch and poster sessions (temporary programme).
• The PEPR eNSEMBLE Winter School - on 21 and 22 January - is open to doctoral students in the eNSEMBLE programme (1st and 2nd years) and their supervisors (dedicated session for thesis supervisors on the morning of 21 January). Registration mandatory. PhD students who are not funded by eNSEMBLE but who are working on digital collaboration topics may ask to participate (please pre-register and contact us).

• For any question, please don't hesitate to contact us (sebastien.dubos@universite-paris-saclay.fr).

News | 16.10.2024: Call for grants to include a PhD thesis in the PEPR eNSEMBLE programme. If you are preparing a PhD thesis focused on digital collaboration (1st year or beginning of 2nd year), but are not a member of the PEPR eNSEMBLE, you can apply to have your doctoral thesis included in the eNSEMBLE community.

• This will entitle you to take part in events reserved for the eNSEMBLE community (winter school, annual days, project meetings, etc.) and to receive a grant of 10,000 euros (1st year students) or 8,000 euros (2nd year students) for your material purchases (equipment, small items, experiments, etc.) or your missions (travel and accommodation, registration for conferences or workshops, etc.).
• The (simplified) application procedure can be accessed by following this link (to be completed directly by your PhD director or supervisor).
• You will be guided through the completion of this form. If you have any questions, please send an email to sebastien.dubos@universite-paris-saclay.fr (PEPR eNSEMBLE programme manager).
• Applications will be accepted until 31 October 2024.

News | 09.10.2024: Only a few days left to register for the workshop of the Targeted Project 3 - MATCHING on collaboration between humans and intelligent systems!

• Thursday 17 October at 10 a.m., in person
• SCAI conference room / Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris.
• Registration mandatory (link).

• For more information, please contact the co-directors of PC3 MATCHING: pc3@pepr-ensemble.fr

News | 22.08.2024: Following the hacking of the Université Paris-Saclay (co-pilot of the PEPR eNSEMBLE), some of our communication resources and platforms are currently out of service. In particular, all emails sent since 10 August to the addresses ‘@universite-paris-saclay.fr’, ‘@upsaclay.fr’ or ‘@lri.fr’ have not reached us and have been lost. Similarly, the document submission sites (cirrus) and some of the mailing lists are inaccessible.

• If you have contacted us during this period (and until further notice) and have not received a reply, please return your messages to the following addresses: sebastien.dubos@inria.fr (the sebastien.dubos@lisn.upsaclay.fr address is no longer functional) and send a copy to contact@pepr-ensemble.fr.
• If you have any problems, you can write to us on WhatsApp only at +33 1 69 15 39 09.
• Our platforms are not a priori affected by a data leak; we will notify you individually when we have more information. In the meantime, we recommend that you exercise your usual due diligence with regard to any suspicious communications that appear to emanate from the project.

News | 11.06.2024: The PEPR eNSEMBLE opens a second session of the 2024 call for doctoral theses, with simplified modalities. This call is open to all.

• Information meeting on Friday 21 June at 13:00 (Zoom link).
• Schedule and procedure

• As a reminder, the Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is also open (applications are possible throughout the year).

News | 18.03.2024: The ANR Call for Projects (AAP) for the eNSEMBLE PEPR project is open until 2 May.

• This call follows the AMI (Call for Expressions of Interest) launched last November, to which 35 teams responded.
• On 1 March, we also organised a pitch session for applicants to the AMI (24 volunteer teams took part). The aim was to enable applicants to find partners and/or merge projects (where relevant). Under the following link, you will find a booklet containing all the information (contacts, abstracts, keywords, presentation materials and videos) for each project submitted.
• It is not necessary to have responded to this AMI (or participated in the pitch session), nor to be part of the PEPR eNSEMBLE to respond to this AAP.

News | 12.03.2024: The call for PhD program and the priority themes are now announced for the year 2024.

• Teams can already submit their PhD topic proposals and applications will be open from 5 April to 16 May!
• Procedure & Agenda
• As a reminder, the Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is also open (applications are possible throughout the year).

News | 22.01.2024: We are recruiting a Project Manager to specifically handle some Targeted Projects (PCs) of the PEPR (PC2 to PC5). This position will be based in Grenoble (UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes) for an initial period of 3 years (which may be extended, as the projects included in the eNSEMBLE programme are designed to last 7 years). Applications are now open with a target start date of 15 March 2024.

• Apply online! (UGA website)
• For further information about the position, please contact Laurence Nigay (co-director of the eNSEMBLE programme, Université Grenoble Alpes), or join us on our new LinkedIn page!

News | 09.01.2024: Call for applications for a Master final internship.

PEPR eNSEMBLE is calling for applications from Master 2 students for 5-month internships with teams participating in the following targeted projects: PC1, PC3 and PC4.

• Details and application procedure here (tentative deadline: 19 January): Call for applications 2024 for a Master2 scholarship (PDF)
• Reminder to eNSEMBLE members: if you have a subject proposal without a candidate, don't hesitate to contact us so that we can share the announcement with the whole community!

News | 06.12.2023: Call for PEPR eNSEMBLE postdoctoral programmes. We are launching a new call for young PhDs/researchers for postdoctoral contracts with our partner institutions and within one of the 80 teams spread across France.

Recruitment is open on a continuous basis between December 2023 and October 2024, with a selection committee meeting every 2/3 months. Contracts are expected to last between 12 and 24 months, and come with a €6K allowance for equipment and mission expenses. Please do not hesitate to contact the managers of the various Targeted Projects (PC) to discuss your project and your ideas. We also invite you to circulate this call within your laboratories and through your networks!

• Details and application procedure here:2023-2024 postdoctoral call for the French PEPR Research program eNSEMBLE (PDF)

News | 22.11.2023: Call for Expressions of Interest (AMI) of the PEPR eNSEMBLE - Future of Digital Collaboration. This call - open until 18 January 2024 at 11:00 (CEST) - is launched to:

• identify potentially relevant contributors to future calls for proposals (AAP), whether they come from public or private laboratories already known to be working on digital collaboration or are new entrants to the field;
• identify and specify the topics on which these actors are in a position to submit research proposals in the short term, and establishing an initial state of the art in the area.

These different elements will be used to define the scope of the subsequent Calls for Proposals (AAP), designed to select research projects for funding. By way of illustration, the total amount of financial support will be €5 million for each of the calls in 2024 and 2025. The maximum duration of a project will be four years.

More information:

• PEPR eNSEMBLE AMI leaflet (PDF, in French)
• Details and submission procedures on the ANR website (in French)

News | 20.10.2023: Kick-Off meeting of PEPR eNSEMBLE: a first day of scientific discussions will be organised in Paris on Friday 17 November 2023. Information & registration to the event.

• Update (27.11.2023): Presentations of all the kickoff sessions are now available online.

News | 08.10.2023: The first eNSEMBLE Doctoral School took place after the PEPR inauguration on October 5-6-7.

News | 06.10.2023: The inauguration of PEPR eNSEMBLE took place on 5 October 2023 at Université Grenoble Alpes with close to 250 people in attendance. Press release (in French). Replay the event (in French).