SNSF Projects | Research funding for individual and collaborative research in any disciplines

Event details
Date | 03.04.2023 › 02.10.2023 |
Category | Call for proposal |
Projects is the SNSF instrument for experienced researchers working in Switzerland who wish to obtain funding for a project of their own in any discipline.
Who can apply:
Funding and duration: min. CHF 50’000 (no upper limit) for 12-48 months.
Eligible costs:
Deadlines: 3 April and 2 October 2023 (17:00 Swiss local time)
For further information, please have a look at the call webpage, regulations and EPFL Toolkit.
For collaborative projects with applicants based in selected countries:
The SNSF offers other instruments for collaborative projects:
Who can apply:
- SNSF Projects can be held by one or more applicants. Each applicant must individually meet the following requirements:
- PhD obtained at least 4 years prior to the application deadline or 3 years of research work. This restriction does not apply to independent researchers who can apply as soon as they get the said position. All applicants must be in a position to carry out research projects under their own responsibility and to lead project staff. Applicants must be employed at least 50% at a research institution for the duration of the project or have been given assurance of such employment in writing.
Funding and duration: min. CHF 50’000 (no upper limit) for 12-48 months.
Eligible costs:
- Personnel (scientific and technical staff; excluding the PI’s and the project partners salaries), research costs, equipment (for equipment costs higher than CHF 100K in total, an institutional co-financing of 50% must be obtained and you need to contact [email protected] 3 weeks prior to the deadline!), subcontracting (salaries for personnel are not eligible), scientific cooperation, networking and communication.
- Costs for open access publications are not eligible and must be requested separately (https://oa100.snf.ch/en/home-en/).
- We would like to remind you that EPFL applies, since 2018, a flat rate salary scale of CHF 50’040 per year for doctoral students funded by SNSF grants.
- Use the EPFL Budget Calculator to prepare your application.
Deadlines: 3 April and 2 October 2023 (17:00 Swiss local time)
For further information, please have a look at the call webpage, regulations and EPFL Toolkit.
For collaborative projects with applicants based in selected countries:
- SNSF Lead Agency: to participate in collaborative research with the State of Sao Paulo (Brazil; Deadline: 1 April 2023), South Africa and the Province of South Tyrol (Deadline: 1 April 2023) and France.
- SNSF Weave: to participate in collaborative research with two or three European countries or regions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Croatia, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia and Czech Republic (Deadlines: 3 April and 2 October 2023).
- International co-investigator scheme: to fund foreign partners in collaborative projects with Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK and the Netherlands. Deadlines: 1 April and 1 October 2023.
The SNSF offers other instruments for collaborative projects:
- SNSF Sinergia: for interdisciplinary collaborative research in any disciplines. Deadline: 17 April 2023)
- SNSF Spirit: for collaborative research in any disciplines with countries receiving development assistance. Deadline: 2 November.
Practical information
- General public
- Free