Aurora is the French-Norwegian Hubert Curien Partnership (PHC). It is implemented in Norway by the Research Council of Norway and in France by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR).
Ten projects have been selected for the year 2026. The list includes two projects in Mathematics (DS1), one project in Physics (DS2), one project in Earth Sciences (DS3), one project in Chemistry (DS4), one project in Biology, Medicine and Health (DS5), one project in Social Sciences (DS7), one project in Engineering (DS8), and two projects in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (STIC, DS9).
The list of projects selected for PHC Aurora 2026 is as follows:
| Project code | French Institution | Project title |
| 55509WC | Université Marie et Louis Pasteur | Conservation Laws and Hamilton–Jacobi equations: Nonlocal effects, Control and Discontinuities |
| 55481TL | Université Grenoble Alpes | Parameter estimation for laboratory porous media |
| 55524XG | Fédération de recherche ONERA – ENAC – ISAE-SUPAERO | lidARCTIC – LIDar for ARCtic aTmospheric proCesses |
| 55497VH | ISAE-SUPAERO RECHERCHE | Astromaterial Bender Element Analysis (ASTROBE) |
| 55504TA | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Plastic crystal matrix phase ferroelectric composites by cold sintering – ColdPCC |
| 55498YF | Université de Rennes | Investigating the lesion-seeking mechanisms of the DNA glycosylases OGG1 and AAG |
| 55513YM | KEDGE Business School Talence | D-PORT: Digital Twins for Seaport Resilience |
| 55480QA | Inria Saclay, ENSTA | FWI-DAMS: Full-Waveform Inversion for Dam Safety |
| 55443RG | Inria Rennes | ROBOPERCEPTOR |
| 55518PB | Université Bretagne Sud | DYNAMIC-AI: AI-Enhanced Crisis Training Collaboration |