ANR ASTRID 2026 — Defence Research including Disinformation, Deepfakes and Cognitive Sciences

The ASTRID 2026 call covers broad defence-relevant science including cybersecurity, information engineering, AI, human-systems interactions, and disinformation/deepfake detection. The call explicitly welcomed proposals with expertise in mass analysis of social network data, natural language processing, desinformation detection, deepfake detection, and cognitive sciences as applied to defence. Projects require DGA IP authorization for commercialisation. French institutions as lead; international collaboration permitted. Next call expected early 2027.

Deadline

02 Mar 2026

Open date

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Funding

— – €400,000

TRL

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Eligible entities

university, research_org, company

Eligible countries

FR

Topics

disinformation detection, deepfake detection, NLP, cognitive sciences, social network analysis, defence research