European Projects

CRAL is involved in collaborative research through scientific research projects selected and funded by national or international organizations. In this context, CRAL hosts the following partnerships (EC, PIA, and ANR) [contracts listed starting in 2016].

European Research and Innovation Council

PODCAST – Predictions and Observations for Discs: Planetary Cores and Dust Aggregates from Non-Ideal MHD Simulations with Radiative Transfer

Project duration: 2020–2024
Project reference:
Principal Investigator: Guillaume LAIBE (CRAL)
Contract type: H2020 – ERC Consolidator Grant
Host institution: ENSLyon

DUSTBUSTERS – Dust and Gas in Planet-Forming Discs

Project duration: 2018 – 2022
Project reference: 823823
CRAL Principal Investigator: Guillaume LAIBE (CRAL)
Contract type: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) – Marie Curie Actions
Host institution: ENSLyon

arthUs – Advances in Theoretical Research on the Dark Universe

Project duration: 09/01/2017 – 08/31/2022
Project reference: 740021
Principal Investigator: Thomas Buchert (CRAL)
Contract type: H2020 – ERC Advanced Grant
Host institution: UCBL1-LIP

CALENDS – Clusters And LENsing of Distant Sources

Project duration: September 1, 2013 – August 31, 2019
Project reference: 336736
Principal investigator: Johan Richard (CRAL)
Contract type: FP7 – ERC Starting Grant
Host institution: UCBL1-LIP

MUSICOS – MUSE Imaging of the Cosmic Web – Ultra-Deep Observations of Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Gas

Project duration: March 1, 2014 – February 28, 2019
Project reference: 339659
Principal Investigator: Roland Bacon (CRAL)
Contract type: FP7 – ERC Advanced Grant
Host institution: CNRS-DR

TOFU – Toward a new generation of multi-dimensional stellar evolution models: the TOol of the FUture

Project duration: May 1, 2013 – April 30, 2018
Project reference: 320478
Principal investigator: Isabelle Baraffe (Exeter & CRAL)
Contract type: FP7 – ERC Advanced Grant
Managing institution: CNRS-DR7

PEPS – Exploring the physics of Proto-stars and Extra-solar PlanetS

Project duration: June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2016
Project reference: 247060
Principal Investigator: Gilles Chabrier (CRAL)
Contract type: FP7 – ERC Advanced Grant
Administering institution: CNRS-DR7