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anr Project JCJC "FIBALGA" ANR-18-CE40-0003
2018-2022. PI: Ronan Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).
Fibrations and Algebraic Group Actions. The goal of this project is to revisit, clarify, and make significant headway with long-standing problems related to algebraic group actions on algebraic varieties by means of the most recent techniques developed in algebraic and complex geometry.
anr Project "MIAV" ISITE-BFC ANR-15-IDEX-00008
2018-2021. PIs: Frédéric Déglise and Adrien Dubouloz (IMB, Dijon).
Motivic Invariants of Algebraic Varieties. The driving force of the project is the use of the recent and powerful theory of motivic A1-homotopy introduced by Voevodsky to produce new, and study classical, invariants of algebraic varieties of both geometric and arithmetic nature.
anr Project "BirPol" ANR-11-JS01-004-01
2011-2016. PI: Adrien Dubouloz (IMB, Dijon).
Automorphismes Polynomiaux et Transformations Birationnelles. Notre principal objectif est de développer des techniques et approches unifiées permettant dans un premier temps de réinterpréter et améliorer les résultats existant en dimension 2, puis dans un deuxième temps d'apporter des progrès substantiels dans l'étude des automorphismes polynomiaux et des transformations birationnelles en dimension 3.
anr Project "Complexe" ANR-11-JS01-004-01
2009-2012. PI: Laurent Meersseman (IMB, Dion / LAREMA, Angers).
Uniformisation de familles de variétés complexes. Nous souhaitons étudier les familles de variétés complexes. Par famille, on entend famille de déformations mais aussi feuilletages holomorphes et à feuilles complexes et laminations. Le problème central est celui de l'uniformisation de telles familles. Nous souhaitons également développer un groupe de géométrie complexe à Dijon, en particulier autour du thème précédent. Le projet consiste essentiellement en l'organisation d'une école d'été, de trois rencontres thématiques et d'un congrès final.

Project PHC Germaine de Staël 26470XE "Transformation Groups and Birational Geometry".
French-Swiss Project 2012-2014. PIs: Jérémy Blanc (Basel) and Adrien Dubouloz (IMB, Dijon).
Project PHC Van Gogh 18153NA "Polynomial Automorphisms".
French-Dutch Project 2009-2011. PIs: Stefan Maubach (Nijmegen) and Adrien Dubouloz (IMB, Dijon).

Project NCN SONATA BIS 5 2015/18/E/ST1/00562 "Modern methods in complex affine geometry".
Polish National Science Centre Project 2016-2022. PI: Karol Palka (IMPAN Warsaw).
Project Iuventus Plus 0382/IP3/2013/72 "Varieties and sub-varieties of nongeneral type and their role in degeneration phenomena".
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Project 2013-2015. PI: Karol Palka (IMPAN Warsaw).

Past Conferences and Workshops

Conference Algebraic Geometry, Lipschitz Geometry and Singularities
December 12-15, 2023, Pipa, Brazil..

Basel-Dijon-EPFL Joint Seminar

BDL

November 13-14, 2023, Basel, Switzerland.

Workshop ANR HqDiag

HQDIAG

October 24-25, 2023, Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France.

Journées du GDR GAGC

GAGC-Poitiers-2023

October 18-20 2023, Poitiers, France.

Workshop Motivic Geometry in Dijon
September 14-15 2023, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with N. Bader and J. Nagel (IMB, Dijon).

Master Class Algebraic Geometry & Physics

MCAGP-Dijon-2023

August 28 - September 1 2023, Dijon, France. Lecturer.

Summer SchoolChow-Witt Rings: Computations and Applications
August 21-25 2023, BIMSA Beijing, China. Lecturer.

Conference Oka Theory and Complex Geometry
June 19-23 2023, Sophus Lie Center, Norway. Invited speaker.

Conference Birational geometry and regulous functions

BGRF-LeCroisic-2023

June 5-9 2023, Le Croisic, France. Invited speaker.

Workshop FIBALGA 2023
March 23-24 2023, IMAG Montpellier, France.

Workshop Arithmetic & Homotopic Galois Theory 2023

AHGT-Hybrid-2023

March 20-24 2023, ENS Paris & RIMS Kyoto [Hybrid].

The 21st Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting

AAG-Saitama-2023

March 3-5 2023, Saitama, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama) and H. Kojima (Niigata).

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 12th edition

SF-AG

January 30- February 3 2023, Charmey, Switzerland.

Workshop Algebraic Geometry in Dijon - Algebraic Group Actions
January 16-17 2023, Dijon.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

Workshop Fano varieties and Hyper-Kähler varieties
January 9-11 2023, IRMA Strasbourg, France.
Co-organized with D. Faenzi and Nadia Bader (IMB), L. Fu and R. Laterveer (IRMA Strasbourg).

Workshop Complex and symplectic curve configurations
December 12–16, 2022, Nantes, France.

Workshop Birational Geometry and K-stability of Fano Varieties
November 20-25 2022, ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland. Invited speaker.

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

October 6-7 2022, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

Rencontre ANR HQDIAG

HQDIAG

September 5-6 2022, ENS de Lyon, France.

Conference Motivic Geometry

MG-Oslo-2022

August 8-12 2022, University of Oslo, Norway. Invited speaker.

Conference Birational Geometry
June 13-17 2022, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited speaker.

Conference in Enumerative, real and birational geometry
June 6-10 2022, Le Croisic. Invited speaker.

Spring School Invariant in Algebraic Geometry

IAG-Dijon-2022

May 16-20 2022, IMB Dijon.
Co-organized with F. Déglise, D. Faenzi and R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

May 12-13 2022. EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.

Colloque tournant 2022 du GDR TLAG
March 16-18 2022, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

Workshop FIBALGA
March 10-12 2022, Poitiers, France.

The 20th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting (Hybrid Edition)

AAG-Saitama-2022

March 2-3 2022, Saitama, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama) and H. Kojima (Niigata).

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 11th edition

SF-AG

January 10-14 2022, Charmey, Switzerland.

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

November 29-30 2021. Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Rencontre ANR HQDIAG "Singularités, perversité et calculs quadratiques"

HQDIAG

November 8-9 2021, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with F. Déglise (ENS de Lyon).

Workshop de Géométrie Algébrique à DIJON
October 7-8 2021, Dijon, France.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 10th edition

SF-AG

September 20-24 2021, Charmey, Switzerland.

Conférence Groupes et géométrie algébriques en mémoire de Laurent Gruson
May 10-12 2021, Lille Paris Versailles, France.

The 19th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting

AAG-Saitama-2021

March 3-5 2021, Saitama, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama) and H. Kojima (Niigata).

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

October 1-2 2020, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

Conference Motivic Geometry

MV-Oslo-2020

September 7-11 2020, CAS, Oslo, Norway.
Co-organized with M. Levine (Essen), O. Röndigs (Osnabrück), K. Wickelgren (Duke) and P. A. Østvær (Oslo).

The 18th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting
March 5-7 2020. Saitama University, Saitama, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama), H. Kojima (Nigata) and K. Masuda (Osaka).

The official meeting was cancelled on March 2nd 2020 due to Covid-19 outbreak.
A non-official smaller workshop "Affine and Birational Geometry" was organized by the participants already present in Saitama on March 5-6.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 9th edition

SF-AG

January 13-17 2020, Charmey, Switzerland.

CIMPA School Fourth Latin American School on Algebraic Geometry and its Applications (ELGA IV)

ELGA-Talca-2019

December 2-13 2019, Universidad de Talca, Chile.

Workshop Arc schemes and algebraic group actions
December 2-4 2019, Paris, France. Invited speaker.

Workshop Edge Days 2019: Fano varieties, Cones and Links
November 4-8 2019, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Invited speaker.

Kinosaki Algebraic Geometry Symposium
October 21-25, 2019, Kinosaki, Japan. Invited speaker.

Workshop Algebraic Geometry and Homotopy Theory
October 3-4 2019, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Invited speaker.

Del Duca Workshop on Cremona Groups
September 23-27 2019, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.

Special Session "Derivations in Algebra and Geometry" at the occasion of 1st Joint Meeting Brazil-France in Mathematics

BF-Rio-2019

July 15-19 2019, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Co-organized with A. Bianchi (Sao Paulo).

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

June 4-5 2019, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Conference Affine Algebraic Geometry and Transformation Groups in honor of Lucy Moser-Jauslin
May 27-29 2019, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau, F. Déglise, D. Faenzi and J. Nagel (IMB, Dijon).

Workshop FIBALGA 2019
May 20-21 2019, LAREMA Angers, France. Spare speaker.

Conference Algebro-Geometric and Homotopical Methods
May 6-10 2019, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden. Invited speaker.

The 17th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting
March 7-10 2019, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama), H. Kojima (Nigata) and K. Masuda (Osaka).

Journée I-SITE "Motivic Invariants of Algebraic Varieties"
January 31 2019, Besançon, France.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 8th edition

SF-AG

January 7-11 2019, Charmey, Switzerland.

Rencontre Del Duca Groups of Birational Transformations
November 26-30 2018, IRMAR Rennes, France. Invited Speaker.

Workshop Explicit Birational and Affine Geometry in Saitama

EBAG-Saitama-2018

November 16-17 2018, Saitama, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama) and I. Cheltsov (Edinburg).

Conference Algebraic groups : Geometry, Actions and Structure
October 29 - November 2 2018, ICJ, Lyon, France.

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

October 10-11 2018, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

Journées de Géométrie Algébrique de Bourgogne
October 24-25 2018, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Bignalet-Cazalet and D. Faenzi (IMB).

Conference Holomorphic Elliptic Geometry and Group Actions
September 4-7 2018. Bern, Switzerland. Invited speaker.

Workshop Subgroups of Cremona Groups
June 17-23 2018, MFO, Germany.

Conference Algebraic Geometry - Mariusz Koras in memoriam

Koras-Warsaw-2018

May 25-June 1 2018, IMPAN Warsaw, Poland. Speaker.

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon-EPFL

BDL

May 3-4 2018. EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. Speaker.

Mini-Workshop Algebraic Geometry
March 29-30 2018, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Bignalet-Cazalet, F. Déglise and R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

The 16th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting
March 8-11 2018, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama), H. Kojima (Nigata) and K. Masuda (Osaka).

Winter School Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
February 5-9 2018, Freiburg, Germany. Invited Speaker.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 7th edition

SF-AG

January 8-12 2018, Charmey, Switzerland.

The Shokurovs: workshop for birationalists

Shokurov-Pohang-2017

December 18–22 2017, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics, Pohang, South Korea. Invited Speaker.

Journée Géométrie Algébrique - Géométrie Arithmétique Besançon - Dijon
October 13 2017, Dijon, France.

Joint Seminar Dijon-Basel, 5th Edition
September 11-12 2017, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with J. Blanc (Basel).

Summer School Current Topics in the Theory of Algebraic Groups

SC-Dijon-2017

July 3-7 2017, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R.Bignalet-Cazalet, D. Faenzi, L. Moser-Jauslin, R. Terpereau and E. Wagner (IMB, Dijon).

Worshop Edge Days 2017 Birkar's boundedness and Cremona groups
June 26-30 2017, Edinburgh University, Scotland. Invited Speaker.

Rencontre Del Duca Groupes de transformations birationnelles
May 17-19 2017, IRMAR Rennes.

Joint Seminar Basel-Dijon, 4th Edition
May 9-10 2017, Basel, Switzerland.

Mini-Workshop Algebraic Geometry
March 23-24 2017, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with R. Terpereau (IMB, Dijon).

The 15th Affine Algebraic Geometry
March 2-5 2017, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama), H. Kojima (Nigata) and K. Masuda (Osaka).

Research Program Algebro-Geometric and Homotopical Methods
February 11-17 2017, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden. Invited speaker.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 6th edition

SF-AG

January 9-13 2017, Charmey, Switzerland.

Workshop Algebraic Geometry

AG-HangaRoa-2016

December 18-22 2016, Hanga Roa, Chile.
Co-organized with A. Liendo (Talca) and I. Cheltsov (Edinburgh).

Conference SUMA 2016

SUMA-Valparaiso-2016

December 14-17 2016, Valparaiso, Chile.

Conference Groups of birational automorphisms
November 14-18 2016, Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, Moscow, Russia. Lecturer.

Workshop Complex Affine Geometry, Effective Hyperbolicity, Analysis, in honour of Mikhail Zaidenberg

GACHAC-Grenoble-2016

October 24-28 2016, Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France.
Co-organized with J.-P. Demailly (Grenoble), H. Flenner (Bochum), S. Kaliman (Miami) and A. Liendo (Talca).

Workshop Frontiers in Elliptic Holomorphic Geometry
October 10-14 2016, Jevnaker, Norway. Invited Speaker.

The 39th Autumn School in Algebraic Geometry Complex Affine Geometry
September 18-24 2016, Łukęcin, Poland. Lecturer.

The Cremona Conference - Basel 2016

September 5-16 2016, Basel, Switzerland. Poster

Conference Interacting Algebraic Geometry

IAG-Dijon-2016

July 4-8 2016, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with D. Faenzi, J. Nagel, A.-L. Thiel, E. Wagner (IMB, Dijon).

Conference New Methods in Birational Geometry
June 27 - July 1st 2016, Toulouse, France.

Dijon-Basel Seminar 2nd Edition
June 6-7 2016, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with J. Blanc (Basel).

Mini-Workshop Analytic and Algebraic Geometry
May 26-27 2016, Bern, Switzerland.
Co-organized with J. Blanc (Basel), A. Ramos and F. Kutzschebauch (Bern).

Basel-Dijon Seminar 2nd Edition
April 14-15 2016, Basel, Switzerland.
Co-organized with J. Blanc (Basel).

The 14th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting
March 5-8 2016, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.
Co-organized with T. Kishimoto (Saitama), H. Kojima (Niigata) and K. Masuda (Osaka).

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 5th edition

SF-AG

January 18-22 2016, Charmey, Switzerland.

Workshop Birational geometry of Surfaces
January 11-15 2016, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy. Invited speaker.

Dijon-Basel Seminar
December 14-15 2015, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with J. Blanc (Basel).

Conference Algebraic Surfaces and Related Topics

ASRT-Bangalore-2015

November 21-30 2015, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India. Invited speaker.

Basel-Dijon Seminar
October 26-27 2015, Basel, Switzerland.
Co-organized with J. Blanc (Basel).

Second SwissMAP Geometry & Topology Conference
June 22-26 2015. Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Invited speaker.

Conference Perverse Sheaves and Applications

PSA-Dijon-2015

April 7-8 2015. Dijon, France.
Co-organized with D. Mégy (Nancy) and J. Nagel (Dijon).

The 13th Affine Algebraic Geometry Meeting
March 5-8 2015. Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan. Invited speaker.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 4th edition

SF-AG

January 26-30 2015, Enney, Switzerland.

Conference Complex Geometry, Analysis and Foliations, Honouring the memory of Marco Brunella

CGAF-Trieste-2014

September 29 - October 3 2014. ICTP Trieste, Italy.
Co-organized with with C. Arezzo (ICTP), L. Meersseman (Angers) and J.V. Pereira (IMPA).

French-Swiss Mini-Workshop Algebraic Geometry

SFMWAG-Dijon-2014

December 9-11 2014. Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin (Dijon).

Joint Workshop in Algebraic Geometry "BirPol-PTT"

BirPolPTT-Toulouse-2014

October 13-16 2014, Toulouse, France.

International Short-School/Conference on Affine Algebraic Geometry & the Jacobian Conjecture
July 14-25 2014. Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Lecturer

Workshop Algebraic Varieties and Automorphism Groups

AVAG-Kyoto-2012

July 7-11 2014. RIMS Kyoto, Japan.

Conference Structure of algebraic groups
June 23-27 2014. Lyon, France. Invited Speaker.

Conference Moduli Spaces of real and Complex Varieties

MSRCV-Angers-2014

June 2-6 2014. Angers, France. Co-funded by the ANR Project "BirPol".

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 3rd edition

SF-AG

January 27-31 2014, Enney, Switzerland.

Conference Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry "BirPol6"
December 11-13 2013, Basel, Switzerland.

Conference Algebraic Geometry in Dijon

AGiD-Dijon-2013

September 17-20 2013. Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin and C. Petitjean (Dijon).

Groupes de transformations algébriques "BirPol4"
March 20-22 2013, ENS Paris, France.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 2nd edition

SF-AG

February 18-22 2013, Enney, Switzerland.

Conference in Algebraic Geometry "BirPol 3"
November 28-30 2012 Basel Switzerland.

Conference Groups of Automorphisms in Birational and Affine Geometry
October 29 - November 3 2012. CIRM Levico Terme, Italy. Invited Speaker.

Workshop The Topology of Algebraic Varieties

TAV-Montreal-2012

September 21-28 2012, CRM Montréal, Canada.

Conférence Géométrie algébrique affine réelle et complexe "BirPol2"

GAARC-LaRochelle-2012

May 29-31 2012, La Rochelle, France.

Conference Derived Categories in Algebraic Geometry

DCAG-Dijon-2012

May 23-25 2012. Dijon, France.
Co-organized with J. Nagel (IMB, Dijon).

International Conference Birational and Affine Geometry
April 23–27 2012. Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia. Invited Speaker.

Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry 1st edition

SF-AG

February 20-24 2012, Enney, Switzerland.

Workshop Géométrie Birationnelle et Affine "BirPol 1"
January 16-18 2012, Toulouse, France.

Mini-Conférence Géométrie et Dynamique Complexe
November 28-30 2011, Nice, France.

Oberwolfach Seminar Affine Algebraic Geometry and Group Actions
November 20-26 2011, Oberwolfach, Germany.
Co-organized with H. Flenner (Bochum) and H. Kraft (Basel).

Conference Complex Geometry and Uniformisation
October 17-21 2011, CIRM Luminy, France.

Worshop Affine Algebraic Geometry

October 3-4 2011, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin (IMB, Dijon).

Conference Birational Transformations and Automorphisms of Affine Varieties
June 20-22 2011. Basel, Switzerland. Invited Speaker.

Journées de Géométrie Affine à Grenoble

May 9-10 2011, Grenoble, France.
Co-organized with M. Zaidenberg (IF,Grenoble).

Workgshop Real and complex affine algebraic geometry
March 10-12 2011, Angers, France.

International Conference Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CAAG) 2010
December 6-10 2010, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Invited Speaker.

Workshop Polynomial Automorphisms

November 25-26 2010, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin (IMB, Dijon).
Workshop Automorphisms of Affine Spaces

October 7-8 2010, Lyon, France.
Co-organized with S. Lamy (ICJ, Lyon).

Wokshop Higher Dimensional Birational Geometry
June 16-19 2010, Warwick Mathematics Insitute, Warwick, UK. Invited Speaker.

Mini-Conférence Variétés Complexes et Feuilletages
June 7-10 2010, Strasbourg, France.

Workshop Automorphisms of Affine Spaces

March 29-30 2010, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin (IMB, Dijon).

Mini-Conférence Surfaces Complexes et Feuilletages
January 18-22 2010, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France. Lecturer.

Workshop Automorphisms of Affine Spaces

November 12-13 2009, Basel, Switzerland.
Co-organized with S. Vénéreau (Basel).
École d'été Uniformisation de familles de variétés complexes
August 31 - September 11 2009, Dijon, France. Proceedings

Conference Automorphisms of Affine Spaces
July 6-10 2009, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Speaker.

Workshop Automorphisms of Affine Spaces

April 16-17 2009, Basel, Switzerland.
Co-organized with S. Vénéreau (Basel).

Workshop Automorphismes des Espaces Affines
December 5-6 2008, La Rochelle, France.
Co-organized with J.P. Furter (La Rochelle).
Workshop Polynomial Automorphisms

June 22-23 2008, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin and P.M. Poloni (IMB, Dijon).

Workshop Polynomial Automorphisms

PA-Dijon-2008

January 31 - February 2 2008, Dijon, France.
Co-organized with L. Moser-Jauslin (IMB, Dijon).

Workshop Affine Algebraic Geometry
January 7-13 2007, Oberwolfach, Germany.

Study groups archives

Study Group "Clopen Seminar"
Multi topics Study Group at IMB Dijon 2017-2022.

Study Group "Intersection Cohomology and Perverse Sheaves"
Joint study Group between IMB Dijon and IECL Nancy. 2014-2015.

Study Group "Théorie $\mathbb{A}^1$-topologique des variétés algébriques"
Study Group at IMB Dijon. 2011-2012.

Study Group "Flips en dimension 3"
Joint Study Group between IMB Dijon and ICJ Lyon. 2008-2009.

Study Group "Automorphismes des espaces affines"
Informal long term joint Study Group held in collaboration with mainly IMB Dijon, ICJ Lyon and the Mathematics Institute of Basel between 2006 and 2012 and whose activities merged with those of the ANR Project "BirPol" after 2012. .