French funding agency provides automatic project extensions

Extra six months will help researchers overcome pandemic-related delays

The ANR, France’s national research agency, has extended the majority of active research projects by six months in order to reduce the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The extension will be implemented automatically and will not require any action on the part of laboratories or their management, the agency said. “The supply of all the deliverables related to these projects, such as expenditure statements and scientific reports, will be postponed to the next payment deadline,” it said in a statement to the press.