Many scientific projects need time to achieve results. The aim of this programme is to offer organizers an opportunity to share advances on a common project by taking stock once or twice a year, during a key week at CIRM, and to have the possibility to do this several years in a row.
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• CIRM’s international Scientific Committee will normally study proposals following a call, during one of their bi-annual meetings. However, CIRM may accept proposals received at other times and will have any application studied by experts in the committee outside an official meeting, if necessary.
• Joint agreements will then be signed between the selected proposers and CIRM.
• One year before the first event is to take place, an oral presentation will take place in front of the Scientific Committee, in order to fine-tune the project.
• Timespan: 3 events on average. One-week event to be staged every year normally (or every second year for events taking place every two years)

These projects will need to be supported by external funds that can include ERC Grants, ANR grants, NSF funding etc.)

To make full use of the CIRM environment and administrative / logistical support. By planning events over several years, organizers can be sure that every effort will be made to ease their planning, that CIRM’s communication channels will be used to advertise the programme, that hotel and restaurant facilities will be professionally organized for them. CIRM’s 2019 new extension, in particular, will be used for this programme. It will provide additional bedrooms, a large conference room equipped with an AV centre to film the event and equipped with a Clevertouch touchscreen, a 40-seat video-conference equipped seminar room, offices for organizers, extended restaurant room.

The format of events may be quite flexible: conference, research schools, large thematic workshops, etc. At least one large annual or bi-annual event may be complemented by smaller workshops of 10-40 people in the same year or alternate year. The general agreement can also carry some flexibility re. its duration. We recommend that you take a look at Conferences and Research Schools to find out more information about what is envisaged.

• Normal duration of events (research schools, conferences, workshops): 5 days (Monday to Friday)
• Normal start: around 9am on Day 1 and finish after lunch or before 6pm on Day 5. This can be flexible.
• Access to an auditorium (90 seats) or to a conference room (one-level room) for 90 people.
• ‘Clevertouch‘ touch screen in the new conference room.
• Access to offices in the new wing.
• Access to other rooms in the centre for group work, if the centre is not full that week. 
• Access to the library 24/7. Free access to many  journals. Access to printing, scan, photocopying.
• Board and lodging possible for non local participants from the Sunday night before the event till the Friday morning – with the possibility to extend until Saturday morning (additional costs normally paid by the participants).
• Restaurant also open to local participants and non-residential participants.
• Gala Dinner usually on Thursdays (« bouillabaisse » local fish delicacy – with a supplement)
• The detailed schedule of talks should be entered in the Organizers Intranet a several weeks ahead of the event to maximize information to the participants and to support internal organisation.
• Possibility of video filming by a professional team, if requested and planned in advance. Ask for a quote.
• Free wifi (cirm and eduroam)
• Two free tea/coffee breaks per day. Free tea at all times. Possibility to add biscuits / Danish pastries / fruit. Ask for a quote. Lounge bar in the evening after dinner (alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks).
• Most events plan an afternoon off – usually Wednesdays – to enjoy the wonderful environment of the calanques and Marseille. Picnic meals can be supplied by the restaurant.
• Various large and medium- or small-sized events are hosted each week at CIRM therefore accommodation is distributed between all events. You may have to share the centre with other groups.
• CIRM extended its academic and hotel / restaurant facilities in 2019 and encourages organizers to not limit their group but look for additional financial support and suggest self-subsidy to those participants who have their own funding.
• CIRM communicates widely on its programmes. Organizing teams are also encouraged to advertise their event early by making full use of the bilingual website prepared for them, which contains a description, programme, abstracts, link to intranet, list of participants, speakers, committees, scientific pre-registrations, information on visa letters, practical information, a poster (if supplied), link to the videos, etc. 
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•  January 2022: opening of the online tender
• 31/03/2022 deadline for submitting applications online
• 16/05/2022: evaluation of the proposals by the Cirm International Scientific Committee. The Organizing Committee will have the result in the week following the Scientific Committee meeting. If the meeting is selected, a date will be finalized in the calendar with the Events Coordinator.
• Winter 2022: the holders of the selected files will receive the necessary information for the organization of their future events, as well as a calendar of actions.
• Winter 2022: A bilingual mini website is developed by CIRM for the events, based on the information entered in the proposal. Once the website is online, interested participants will be able to start pre-registering for the event.