LIEPP General Call for Projects 2026: Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies

This call for projects (AAP) aims to support a wide range of activities in public policy evaluation in connection with LIEPP's six thematic research groups (discriminations and category-based policies, evaluation of democracy, educational policies, environmental policies, socio-fiscal policies, health policies) or in a cross-cutting way around evaluation methods and approaches.

The call is open to all full researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral students whose main affiliation is with a Sciences Po or Université Paris Cité laboratory.

Thematic scope of the call for projects

Projects must focus on programme and intervention evaluation, policy evaluation: educational, social, fiscal and environmental policies, health policies, anti-discrimination and category-specific policies (e.g. gender, disability, migration policies), democracy evaluation, theoretical and methodological approaches to evaluation.

The call is open to all disciplines that contribute to the reflection on public action. Projects involving mixed methods, methodological innovations and participatory science approaches will be particularly valued.

Practical information

Type of possible projects:

• Networking (events/workshops of existing networks or support for the creation of a new seed funding network),
• Co-financing of ongoing projects,
• Support for publication,
• Short research stays.

Maximum amount of funding requested : 10 000 €

Duration: Expenditure must be incurred between 1 May 2026 and 31 December 2027.

How to apply

We recommend that those interested in this call for projects contact the LIEPP team [andreana.khristova@sciencespo.fr or liepp@sciencespo.fr] as soon as possible to inform them of their wish to submit a project, by sending a short message with the subject [Call for LIEPP projects]. The LIEPP team will be on hand to answer any questions they may have and to help them set up their project (particularly in terms of budget).

Projects may be written in French or English.

Projects must be submitted by 16 March 2026 at the latest to liepp@sciencespo.fr with the subject line [LIEPP call for projects].

The results will be announced in mid-April 2026.

Documents to download:

• Complete call for projects (pdf)
• Registration form (Word document to download and complete)

Selected Projects

• Eliciting the Social Cost of Carbon (EliSCC)
• La Sécurité Sociale, 80 ans après : dimensions et horizons de l’universalisme (SécUniverselle)
• Social Movement Complementarity: Labor and Voting Rights in France, 1870-1940 (SOCMOV)
• Policy menu pour les politiques de psychiatrie et de psychothérapie (POLI-PSY)
• Introduction of Minimum Wage, Gender Gaps, and Informality (MiGap)
• Femmes et Extractivisme (FEMEX)
• Intersectionnalité et besoins de préventions en santé sexuelle. Une analyse comparative France vs Royaume-Uni (Beso-UK)
• Aux sources de la politique des revenus japonaise : Savoirs, biopolitique et normes transnationales (1920-1960)
• Les Ateliers De Rue : évaluation d’une expérience d’éducation populaire dans l’espace public, comme Alternative aux Ecrans et vecteur de Socialisation pour les enfants et les jeunes d’un QPV parisien (ADRAES)
• Inequalities in Global Societies: What social policy is for? (IGS)
• Le théâtre forum comme méthode pour l’analyse de la réception des politiques « d’accès aux droits » par leurs destinataires
• Perceived Agency, Anticipatory Anxiety, and Motivated Reasoning about Environmental Threats (AGEN)
• Cités éducatives et dynamiques d’évaluation (CITÉVAL)