What is a LabEx ?
Under the large national loan in 2010, the French government launched the "Investments for the Future" program for the country at the forefront of innovation. A budget of € 35 billion is reserved for this program.
Among the calls for proposals launched by the government, calling LabEx (Excellence Laboratory) aims to develop significant resources research units with international visibility, to enable them to compete with their foreign counterparts to attract researchers and teacher-researchers of international renown and build an integrated policy research, training and development of high level.
The UnivEarthS project is one of 100 winners of the wave 1 of the call Laboratories of Excellence (2010 edition) projects.