Extended Deadline: SNIS | Research Funding
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Event details
Date | 01.02.2024 |
Category | Call for proposal |
The Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) offers grants to pluri-disciplinary research teams, to support projects on international studies, in the social sciences or combining natural and social sciences.
Proposals can be submitted in one of the following sections:
- General call for proposals on International Studies: concerning issues that are pluri-disciplinary, relevant to the international agenda, and for which international cooperation is required to produce policy-relevant outputs. Investigated issues may combine political, economic, social, environmental, historical, legal, health, scientific, and development dimensions of complex societal questions.
- Special 2024 theme: “Pathways to inclusive and participatory multilateralism.” With the following sub themes:
and biodiversity crisis
2. The role of technology for enhanced participation / representation
3. The role of education for enhanced participation / representation
4. New forms of representation, particularly
• Representation of youth
• Representation of the private sector
Who can apply:
- The project Coordinator and Co-coordinator can be professors or post-docs, employed at least at 40% for work unrelated to the project at a Swiss Higher Education Institutions for the duration of the project. The applicant cannot hold a SNIS grant at the time of the submission of the pre-proposal. All coordinators must contact [email protected] to obtain an institutional letter of support.
- Associated members: SNIS strongly encourages collaborations with International Organisations and NGOs. The team can also include researchers from abroad and local partners.
Funding & Duration: from CHF 100’000 to 300’000 for 24 months.
Eligible costs
- If the coordinator or the co-coordinator is a faculty member without a full-time contract, SNIS will fund up to a 50% of a full-time position for the coordinator.
- PhD students’ salary (following SNSF salary scale: CHF 51’292 per year + 16% social charges) with a minimum of 60% of their time dedicated to the SNIS project. All other personnel covered by this grant must be employed at least 50% FTE.
- Travel expenses.
- Open access (up to 3% of the requested funds).
- If the coordinator or co-coordinator has a full-time contract, SNIS funds cannot be used for the coordinator’s salary
- Salary of the associated members (e.g. of IOs, NGOs).
- Infrastructure, Equipment, Publications and Overheads.
- Must amount to at least 25% and no more than 100% of requested funds.
Timeline of the call:
- Deadline for pre-proposals: 25 Jan 2024 at 1pm (CET)
- Decision on pre-proposals: end of March 2024
- Internal deadline for institutional letter of support (only for non-independent PIs: at least 7 working days prior to the full proposal deadline (contact [email protected])
- Deadline for full proposals (by invitation): 15 May 2024
- Decision: end of July 2024 (success rate: 40%)
- Start of the project: Autumn 2024
For further information and application, please have a look at the call document, the regulations, the online submission platform, past successful proposals and visit the call website.
Practical information
- General public
- Free