A method for executing an application on a terminal provided with a chip card. The method includes an installation entity verifying that the chip card possesses execution resources for executing a remote server module in cooperation with a client module being executed on the terminal in order to provide the application. When the chip card is verified, the installation entity makes available the resources for executing the remote server module, sends a request for creating a virtualized resource based on the execution resources to a virtualized resource management entity of the chip card, and orders installation of the remote server module in the chip card, in order for the created virtualized resource to execute the remote server module, in cooperation with the client module.