Internationally, the AXA Research Fund supports the creation of innovative research professorships. Each AXA Chair is selected to address a global societal challenge related to one of the following areas: Environment, Health, New Technologies and Socio-Economics.

An AXA Chairholder must have demonstrated outstanding research achievements and leadership qualities. The application must be submitted by the host institution.

Evaluation criteria

• Academic excellence of the candidate and innovative nature of the research program
• Potential to make a step change in the considered research field
• Transformative potential of the chair on the host institution
• Commitment to engage science with society
• Commitment to open access to data and publications, whenever possible

Award duration

• An AXA Chair is awarded for 5 years

Level and use of the support

• Up to € 1M for the whole duration of the programme
• The funding can be used to support part of the professor’s salary and support research activities

Eligibility and application procedure

• Institutions can submit only one application and need to choose one of our two campaigns.
• Please consult https://www.axa-research.org/en/page/AXA-Chairs?xtatc=INT-1-[AXA_CHAIRS] for further information on eligibility criteria and on the application procedure

Deadlines

• Institutions can express their interest in participating in AXA Chairs’ call for proposal until:
• October 22^nd, 2018 (Fall campaign)
• April 22^nd, 2019 (Spring campaign)

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