Velux Foundation: Challenges in Healthy Ageing
Event details
| Date | 24.11.2026 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
IMPORTANT: As the call allows only a limited number of proposals per institution, candidates must first send an Expression of Interest to the Research Office by 28 September 2026.
Access our internal toolkit and submission instructions here:
Goals
Access our internal toolkit and submission instructions here:
Goals
- Understand how environments and context influence health and shape functional ability in older age.
- Examine how such factors affect whether healthy behaviours are easy or difficult, whether opportunities for participation exist, and whether older people can live independently.
- Support conditions that enable people to remain healthy, contribute to society, and pursue what matters to them for as long as possible.
- Go beyond single-cause thinking. Study how environmental and contextual factors interact to shape functional ability in later life.
- Show the interaction, not just the factor. Capture pathways of risk and resilience, and identify which features are modifiable enough to act on.
- Match method to ambition. Use systems thinking in established designs, or complex-systems methods directly and translate findings into scalable, context-sensitive solutions.
- Changing the narrative of age and ageing
- Heat and out-of-home mobility & activity in later life
- Research investigating the biology of ageing to slow, pause, or reverse the ageing process itself.
- Biomedical research on the aetiology, diagnosis, or therapy of specific age-related diseases.
- At least two project partners (PI and co-PI) from different institutions.
- PI must be a permanent employee
- A maximum of 3 co-PIs is allowed. May be non-permanent employees.
- The number of collaborators is not limited.
- Co-PIs and collaborators from non-listed countries are permissible.
- CHF 75,000/year
- Projects can run for up to 4 years
- Eligible budget categories include:
- Salaries (for research staff – salaries for PI or other senior contributors to be covered through their employment)
- Consumables
- Knowledge transfer
- Stakeholder engagement
- Equipment
- Overhead is not Eligible
- Internal deadline to express interest: 28 September 2026
- Submission deadline: 24 November 2026, 23:59 CET
- Final decision: June 2027
- Submission portal: https://portal.veluxstiftung.deskone.ch/login
- Full call document: Call for proposals: Healthy Ageing PDF
- Contact: [email protected]
Practical information
- General public
- Free