[ SNSF Projects | Research funding for individual and collaborative research in any disciplines ]
Event details
| Date | 08.04.2020 |
| 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.
New! All researchers applying for the next SNSF Project Funding call deadline, 8 April 2020, with Division III (biology and medicine) must use the new SNSF CV format.
Who can apply:
Funding and duration: min. CHF 50’000 (no upper limit) for 12-48 months.
Eligible costs:
Deadlines: April 8, 2020 and October 1, 2020
New! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the SNSF has decided to postpone the deadline for SNSF Project Funding to 8 April 2020 (previously 1 April ) (ref. SNSF News).
For further information, please have a look at the call webpage, regulations and EPFL Toolkit.
Other SNSF instruments
For collaborative projects with partners based in selected countries:
For interdisciplinary collaborative projects:
New! All researchers applying for the next SNSF Project Funding call deadline, 8 April 2020, with Division III (biology and medicine) must use the new SNSF CV format.
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 salary), 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, scientific cooperation, networking and communication.
- Costs for open access publications are not eligible and must be requested separately via mysnf.ch (www.snf.ch/oa).
- 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: April 8, 2020 and October 1, 2020
New! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the SNSF has decided to postpone the deadline for SNSF Project Funding to 8 April 2020 (previously 1 April ) (ref. SNSF News).
For further information, please have a look at the call webpage, regulations and EPFL Toolkit.
Other SNSF instruments
For collaborative projects with partners based in selected countries:
- SNSF Lead Agency: to participate in collaborative research with Austria, Germany, Luxembourg (Deadline: 8 April, 1 October), France, Belgium, Czech Republic and South Tyrol (Deadline: 8 April), Slovenia (Deadline: November) and Poland (Deadline: 15 December).
- International co-investigator scheme: to fund foreign partners in collaborative projects with Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK, Germany and Austria. Deadline: 8 April, 1 October.
- SNSF Spirit: for collaborative research in any disciplines with countries receiving development assistance. Rolling call.
For interdisciplinary collaborative projects:
- SNSF Sinergia: for interdisciplinary collaborative research in any disciplines. Deadlines: 1 June, 1 December.
Practical information
- General public
- Free