The "Subsurface: a Common Good" research programme is structured into projects.

It groups together: 

  • Project governance, the goals of which are to drive and coordinate the programme, and to implement education, training and communication campaigns. It accounts for around 10% of the programme's total budget.
  • 13 targeted projects, involving 8 cross-cutting projects addressing the themes of the programme and 5 regional-research sites, which were already mature when the programme was set up. Each project contract is drawn up between a coordinating organisation, which is responsible for the roll-out of the project, and the French National Research Agency (ANR). These projects account for around 55% of the total budget.
  • Research projects which will be selected through calls for expressions of interest and calls for projects, launched by the ANR. These calls for projects/expression of interest will be open to the entire scientific community and concern the themes addressed by the programme. They represent 35% of the total budget. 

Projects

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ANTICIP: studying the way in which the various stakeholders envisage and construct future subsurface applications
Whether they be scientists, political leaders, manufacturers or the general public, those with a stake in the subsurface have different projections of how it will be used in the future. For five year…
Vue du site de Soultz-sous-Forêts
DyMod : dynamic modeling of subsoil resource supply and demand to 2050
From 2024 to 2030, the CNRS's Isterre and Gael laboratories, BRGM, IFPEN, Carbone4, and the Science and Video Game Chair at the École polytechnique, will be combining their skills within the DyMod pr…
Ancienne mine de tungstène d’Enguialès
TAEF: Technical and Economic Foresight - extraction, processing and consumption of mineral resources
The Technical And Economic Foresight (TAEF) project will focus on the data needed to develop dynamic scenarios and models, to serve as input for the dynamic modelling project, target project No. 2 of…
Modèle géométrique 3D du Dogger du bassin de Paris
Digital Earth: a unique platform for subsoil knowledge
The Digital Earth project of the "Subsurface: a Common Good" PEPR will develop a single platform giving access to shared knowledge of the subsurface in the form of data, models and tools, with specif…
Minerai d’or concassé © BRGM
InnovTech: Innovative and sustainable technologies for the responsible exploitation of underground mineral resources
The InnovTech project aims to bring together the French scientific community working in the field of mineral processing in order to tackle the main scientific challenges linked to the sustainable exp…
Forage de géothermie profonde
LCA-SUB: Platform on environmental and life-cycle assessment for sustainable use of the subsurface
The LCA-SUB project, coordinated by BRGM as part of the “Subsurface: a Common Good” PEPR , aims to improve the methods and data used in life-cycle thinking to assess the potential environmental impac…
Inspection et scan 3D des travaux du flanc nord de l'ancienne mine de fer de May sur Orne (Calvados, 2022)
VERTIQUAL: analysing the processes of politicization and requalification of the subsurface
Since the industrial revolutions, the subsurface has been intensively exploited, in particular by the extraction industries, which highlights its potentially harmful consequences and the unequal bala…
Landfill and Aggregates Mine Located Close to Farmland and Forest
JPEC: Analysing changes in mining law within the context of the energy transition
The JPEC project, coordinated by the University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour in partnership with BRGM, brings together French and foreign researchers and various players involved in mining law. The…

Regional-research sites

La centrale géothermique de Soultz-sous-Forêts
Deep geothermal energy in the Rhine Graben
Within the context of the energy transition, developing deep geothermal energy in this Graben (which is a genuine natural research laboratory) is a major priority, since it will enable its significan…
Ressources et usages du sous-sol
S-PASS: Paris Basin - The resources and uses of the urban subsurface
Within the context of climate change and the urbanisation of the Greater Paris region, improving knowledge of the Parisian subsurface, whose space could be used for future developments, and assessing…
Modélisation 3D surfacique du Bassin aquitain, de l'avant-pays nord pyrénéen à l'embouchure de la Gironde (Gironde).
AquiBEAT: Geology of the Aquitaine Basin for the energy transition
The AquiBEAT project of the "Subsurface: a Common Asset" PEPR aims to create a research community devoted to the subject of energy transition in the Aquitaine Basin, in order to improve geological kn…
Commune de Chirols - Massif Central
Massif Central project to study the geological and social conditions under which the region can contribute to current transitions
This project aims to identify and understand the geological and societal issues – whether assets or obstacles – that will determine the future use of the subsurface at various sites in the French Mas…
Un filon pegmatitique dans la région de Kourou
French Guiana (GOYAVES)
French Guiana's subsoil has often been approached from a purely extractive angle, particularly mining, making it a politicized and controversial subject. The GOYAVES project aims to break out of this…