[ SERI - Innovation Partnership Grants with China, Japan, South Korea, and the ASEAN Region | Research funding ]
Event details
Date | 30.07.2020 |
Category | Call for proposal |
In 2017 the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has renewed the Leading House (LH) mandate to ETH Zurich for bilateral collaboration with partner institutions in Asia. An important element for this bilateral cooperation is fostering innovation and the application of research results to economy and society.
The third call for Innovation partnership grants will support the establishment of cooperation between Swiss researchers from universities, universities of applied sciences or public research institutes with non-academic innovation agents in China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan, South Korea and member states of ASEAN.
These agents can be corporates, SMEs or start-ups, innovation parks or similar entities with a focus on applied sciences or technical development.
The goal of the innovation partnership grants is to initiate long-term partnerships with mutually beneficial concrete outcomes (see page 1 of the call guidelines for examples).
The call is open to all scientific disciplines and fields of research.
The grants do not cover research projects, salaries of doctoral students or exchange of young researchers. For these activities, please refer to the bridging grants or mobility instruments of the same bilateral programme.
Who can apply:
- All senior scientists of Swiss federal and cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teachers’ education, as well as public research institutions, are eligible to apply. The Swiss scientist is the main applicant.
- Innovation agent partners must be senior staff affiliated with a company, start-up, innovation park or similar agency in one of the partner countries.
- Universities from the partner country can participate as third parties.
Funding & Duration: max. CHF 20’000 for up to 12 months.
- Eligible costs: salary cost contributions are only permitted for the preparation of a joint proposal to be submitted to a larger funding agency (i.e. National funding agencies or EU funding schemes); travel (max. CHF 2K per trip); accommodation; consumables; equipment; worshops.
- A financial contribution of each partner is expected and must be made explicit in cash and in-kind.
- Industry partners must cover their own cost.
Deadline: 30 July 2020
Evaluation and Decision: August-September 2020
Notification: October 2020
Project start: October 2020 or later
For further information, please have a look at the webpage and guidelines (including the application form).
For Swiss applicants interested in submitting a proposal with a South Korean non-academic agent based in South Korea and active in the life sciences industry (startup, hospital, private company), the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) will launch a unilateral call later in the year to which interested parties can also apply.
Practical information
- General public
- Free