Benefit from the expertise of PNRIA engineers, whatever your research field: call for projects open
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As part of the National AI Research Programme (PNRIA)*, CNRS Computer Science has the mission to build a network of engineers around the Jean Zay ecosystem and the user support missions of IDRIS.
To this end, a team of 9 PNRIA engineers is based at IDRIS, within the AI User Support team to be close to the Jean Zay supercomputer and the teams responsible for its operation. In parallel, smaller teams of 3 people are also established at GRICAD (Grenoble), IRISA (Rennes), IRIT (Toulouse) and LORIA (Nancy).
The PNRIA Deep Learning expert engineers have the mission to support the French academic community in adopting AI technologies to advance their research projects.
This service is intended for researchers from all scientific fields (environment, astrophysics, materials physics, fluid mechanics, chemistry, biology, health, humanities and social sciences, computer science, etc.).
Whether you are discovering the possibilities of applying Deep Learning in your research field, or you are already experienced in training deep neural networks, whether you want to exploit large databases or optimise the performance of your training algorithm, you can benefit from enhanced support for your project by the AI engineers of the programme for a period of up to six months.
A first call for projects was launched on 9 March 2026!
The submission period is open until 30 April 2026 inclusive.
For more information, visit our page dedicated to the PNRIA engineers network.
* The PNRIA is a programme led by CNRS Computer Science on behalf of the CNRS. It is funded under the France 2030 plan and operated by the French National Research Agency (ANR).