SNIS | Research Funding
Event details
| Date | 28.01.2026 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
The 2026 SNIS call will focus on ‘Re-thinking Multilateralism’ to help address the current adaptation challenges facing the International Geneva ecosystem.
The Swiss Network for International studies (SNIS) provides funding for trans-disciplinary projects that connect science with International Organisations and NGOs to produce policy relevant results.
New requirements in this call:
Eligible costs
Timeline of the call:
For further information and application, please have a look at the call document, the online submission platform, past successful proposals and visit the call website.
The Swiss Network for International studies (SNIS) provides funding for trans-disciplinary projects that connect science with International Organisations and NGOs to produce policy relevant results.
New requirements in this call:
- Partnership(s) with International Organisations / NGOs are required: Proposals must include an endorsement letter from an IO / NGO and have at least one IO / NGO member in the research team.
- Eligible research domains are: Governance, security, digital transformation, trade, inequalities, migration, international law & human rights, health, climate change, sustainability. Projects must be pluri-disciplinary. Natural science–led proposals will only be considered if they demonstrate a substantive social-science component and include at least one social-science researcher on the team.
- The project envelope now contains a 7% provision for an impact phase which can last up to 6 months after the 2-year academic project limit.
- Duration: Two years
- Funding: from CHF 100’000 to 300’000 for 24 months (including 7% reserved for impact phase)
- NOT a personal career grant, i.e. one cannot attribute more than 50% of the funding envelope to one person
- No overheads, but 3% of the funding envelope available for the PI's discretionary research fund
- Co-funding (in-kind and monetary): Must amount to at least 25% and no more than 100% of requested funds.
- 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 Institution 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.
- How to apply: Two-round submission process (see timeline further down). Check the insights from members of the SNIS scientific committee for a successful proposal.
Eligible costs
- Salaries for research personnel:
- 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) 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.
- Field costs (including travel, data access)
- Costs associated with the organisation of workshops
- Discretionary fund (max 3% of requested amount)
- Impact fund (7% of requested amount).
- Infrastructure (e.g room rental)
- Auxiliary staff (not related to project; exception: student help for organisation of final workshop)
- Equipment (e.g. computers, lab equipment)
- Third party services (e.g. communication agency)
Timeline of the call:
- Deadline for pre-proposals: 28 Jan 2026 at 1pm (CET)
- Decision on pre-proposals: End of March 2026
- 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 2026
- Decision: early July 2026
- Start of the project: Autumn 2026
For further information and application, please have a look at the call document, the online submission platform, past successful proposals and visit the call website.
Practical information
- General public
- Free