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SUMMARY:Swiss Polar Institute I Technogrants 2022
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221019
DTSTAMP:20260506T180527Z
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DESCRIPTION:The Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) was created to provide service
 s to and promote synergies within the polar community in Switzerland.\n\nW
 ith Technogrants\, SPI supports Swiss groups developing technologies relev
 ant for research in polar regions (and other extreme environments such as 
 remote high-altitude regions). Technogrants can also serve the improvement
  and adaptation of technologies to extreme environments\, or support new t
 echnological developments to be used in the field for polar or remote high
 -altitude research.\n\nIn 2022\, SPI has dedicated a total budget of CHF 1
 50’000.- to fund technology development relevant for polar science\, the
  Arctic and Antarctic\, according to the SPI’s high latitude focus.\n\nW
 ho can apply:\n \n\n	The grants are open from Master’s students to seni
 or researchers based at a Swiss public research institution.\n	Application
 s are submitted by a Principal Investigator (PI)\, which will be SPI’s c
 ontact person within his/her institution. In case of a submission by a Mas
 ter’s student\, the application has to be overseen by a supervisor.\n	Pr
 ivate companies and start-ups are eligible to join the project as partners
  but should work within a project coordinated by a PI employed at a Swiss 
 public research institution.\n\n\nFunding: maximum CHF 75’000.-. The gra
 nts can be used to complement the funding of initiatives supported by larg
 er funding schemes (e.g. SNSF\, EU\, etc.).\n\nEligible costs:\n\n\n	All c
 osts related to the conception\, development\, field testing (especially i
 n the extreme environments of polar or remote high-altitude regions in whi
 ch it is supposed to operate)\, upgrading and adjusting of science support
  technologies in a broad sense.\n	Travel and logistics costs for field tes
 ting purposes. The SPI also considers the offset of carbon emissions as an
  eligible cost\, if not an option offered by the institution of affiliatio
 n of the applicant.\n	Costs relating to salaries of permanent academic pos
 itions\, overhead as well as the acquisition of long- term asset are not e
 ligible.\n\n\nSubmission process:\n\n\n	Complete the online application fo
 rm (contact\, main information and proposal)\n	Attachments to be uploaded 
 into online application form as PDF:\n	\n		Letters of support\n		CVs of th
 e applicant and main partners\, incl. publication lists as PDF\n	\n	\n\n\n
 Submission deadline: 19 October 2022 (12:00 Swiss time)\n\nFor more inform
 ation and application\, please have a look at the call webpage\, the call 
 guidelines\, the online application form and past grantees.\n\nPlease cont
 act research@epfl.ch for any additional questions.\n\n\n\n\n 
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