  A multi-messenger approach with gravitational-wave transients and high-energy
neutrinos is expected to open new perspectives in the study of the most violent
astrophysical processes in the Universe. In particular, gamma-ray bursts are of
special interest as they are associated with astrophysical scenarios predicting
significant joint emission of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos.
Several experiments (e.g. ANTARES, IceCube, LIGO and Virgo) are currently
recording data and searching for those astrophysical sources. In this report,
we present the first joint analysis effort using data from the
gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo, and from the high-energy neutrino
detector ANTARES.
