FIRAH runs an Annual Call for Projects to fund applied research on disability, in order to provide solutions to the difficulties encountered by persons with disabilities and their families in their daily lives. It will fund research projects for a maximum of three years each.

Research supported by FIRAH must represent genuine collaboration between researchers and disabled people, their families, carers and professionals. Knowledge generated by the projects must be disseminated to non-scientific stakeholders in the disability sector as well as to the research community.

The 2022 Call for Projects focuses on the following areas:

• Representation of disabled people and the exercise of their citizenship.

• Links between specialised and ordinary environment - interactions between establishments and services specific to disabled people and more mainstream sectors and systems.

• Access to sport and physical activity for disabled people.

The Foundation may also select high-quality projects which do not cover these issues, if they respond to the criteria described in the Call for Projects. Comparative research involving several countries as well as a French perspective is encouraged.

Research projects can be financed by FIRAH to a maximum of €70,000 per project, over a maximum duration of three years.

Proposals are invited from leaders of research teams with relevant experience and knowledge. Each team should include at least one research scientist working in an institutional or academic setting.

The Foundation supports projects worldwide. For projects conducted outside France, at least one partnership with a French organisation must be established to develop international collaboration.

Project leaders who have already received FIRAH funding may again be eligible only if the previous research project has been finished and all funding has been provided.

The research project may involve civil society organisations that help promote the rights of persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities, their families, and organisations that represent them should fully participate in the research; proof of this participatory approach must be demonstrated in the proposal.

Applicants must first complete a letter of intent using the form available for download from the call webpage on the FIRAH website.

Letters of intent for the 2022 Call for Projects must be submitted by email to FIRAH by 21 March 2022 (23:59).

In case of interest, please contact leonor.norton@sjd.es