The French-Estonian science and technology cooperation program “G.F. PARROT ”organized the 12th application round in spring 2024 for 2025–2026 travels.
The purpose of the program is to encourage high-level scientific and technological cooperation between research groups in Estonia and France and to support, in particular, new cooperation projects. The program covers all scientific fields, and the involvement of doctoral students and young researchers in projects is a priority for the program. The duration of the joint projects is two years. ETAG supports the travels of Estonian researchers to France. The total budget for Estonian researchers for 2025–2026 is 60,000 euros.
A record number of applications were submitted in 2024 application round – 22. There were 10 applications from researchers of University of Tartu, 5 from Tallinn University of Technology, 2 from Estonian University of Life Sciences, 2 from Tallinn University, 2 from TFTAK and 1 application from researchers of National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics.
The researchers submited applications to both French and Estonian funding organizations. First, the applications were evaluated separately by the evaluation committees of both countries, which formed their own rankings from the applications. The Estonian evaluation committee consisted of six experts from different scientific fields and from different research institutions. The French evaluation committee was formed from French experts. At the French-Estonian joint committee meeting, the final list of projects receiving funding was agreed. It was decided to support 10 Estonian-French cooperation projects for 2025-2026 (see the table below).
Application rounds take place every two years, and the next application round for 2027–2028 grants will be announced in March 2026.
| Project name | Estonian partner | French partner | |
| 1 | ACCORD: Algorithmic Complexity in Comparative Gallo-Romance and Finnic Dialectology | Marco Patriarca,
KBFI |
Jean Léonard,
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 |
| 2 | Assertion-based security verification of RISC-V | Tara Ghasempouri,
TalTech |
Giorgio Di Natale,
Techniques de L’informatique et de la |
| 3 | Collaboration and exchange of UNESCO Chairs on Living Heritage and UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Instruction to UNESCO Living Heritage Entity organisation. | Kristin Kuutma,
TÜ |
Chiara Bortolotto,
Heritages UMR 9022, CNRS, Paris |
| 4 | Field emission experiments and simulations for p-type Si nanowires | Andreas Kyritsakis,
TÜ |
Anthony Ayari,
University of Lyon |
| 5 | Geometry and topology in Lipschitz-free spaces | Rainis Haller,
TÜ |
Antonin Prochazka,
Université de Franche-Comté, |
| 6 | Integrative Karst Modeling for Sustainable Water Management in France and Estonia | Oliver Koit,
TLÜ |
David Labat,
Géosciences Environnement |
| 7 | Investigation of diffusion mechanism in different metallic nanowires for neural networks applications | Veronika Zadin,
TÜ |
Karine Mougin,
Institut de Science des Matériaux |
| 8 | Soft Robotic Scope for Minimally Invasive Surgery Procedures | Ritesh Soni,
TÜ |
Sofiane Ghenna,
Université Polytechnique Hauts |
| 9 | The role of microbiota in the plant resistance to apple scab caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis (AppleBioScab) | Kadri Koorem,
TÜ |
Julie Ferreira De Carvalho,
Institut de Recherche en |
| 10 | ZnO nanomaterials with activated surfaces towards photocatalytic water purification from dye pollutants | Tatjana Dedova,
TalTech |
Alexandra Apostoluk,
Institut des Nanotechnologies |