SysChem Complex Systems Chemistry
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Flexible, reactive support for innovative and collaborative projects

One of SysChem’s missions is to maintain and strengthen the high level of excellence in research and teaching in the field of complex systems chemistry, to contribute in a new way to the understanding and resolution of the major scientific and societal challenges of the future. It draws on the experience of the Jean-Marie Lehn Foundation for the management and coordination of its funding program, in order to select and support the most innovative projects within Strasbourg’s scientific community, through annual calls for proposals. To guarantee an exacting selection process, the foundation holds a meeting of its scientific board for each of its programs.

Calls for proposals

Objective: to enable the laboratories within Strasbourg’s chemistry cluster to develop ambitious projects in the field of complex systems chemistry, thanks to funding of up to €300,000.
Objective: to support lecturers or non-independent researchers and give them the opportunity to lead their own project, in the field of complex systems.
Objective: to support the installation of new members, recruited from outside Strasbourg, in synergy with the unit.
See the list of successful projects by category

Peer evaluation

In accordance with international standards for competitive selection of research projects, the foundation’s selection process is based on the principle of peer evaluation . So the foundation relies upon an international community of scientific experts from outside the Strasbourg campus to independently undertake written evaluations. The experts are mainly French and international figures in the scientific community, called upon by the foundation on the basis of proposals from the scientific board, based on criteria of expertise. Before being given access to the full applications, the evaluators sign a confidentiality agreement and declare themselves free of any conflict of interest . The projects are evaluated on the basis of their originality, feasibility, importance and excellence.
expert reports per project to feed into the scientific board’s debates.
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assessments undertaken each year to ensure the selection of high-quality projects.
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An independent scientific board with final decision-making powers

The scientific board meets after the individual expert evaluations have been carried out. A ranking of the projects is established following collective discussions relating to each of the projects, involving at a minimum two members of the scientific board and ensuring the complete absence of conflicts of interest with the projects discussed.
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Selection criteria:

  • Clarity of the research objectives and hypotheses
  • Innovative nature, originality, positioning in relation to the state of the art
  • Pertinence of the methodology, management of scientific risks
  • Expertise of the project proposer and partners
  • Appropriateness of the resources deployed and requested to the project’s objectives