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11.03.201044 new SNSF-funded SNSF professorships

In conclusion to its eleventh call for proposals, the Swiss National Science Fo...

10.03.2010td-net: Swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research 2010

The swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research supported by Stiftung ...

04.03.2010From “Horizons”: Intense political campaigns help to educate

Only a limited number of referendum campaigns end up swaying opinion in Switzer...

04.03.2010'Horizons' looks at virtual autopsies

The digital future of forensics is in Switzerland. Researchers from the Nationa...

03.03.2010ESF: Call for new EUROCORES Themes

EUROCORES Themes proposals are "bottom-up" initiatives for the creati...

19.02.2010Science communication carries results around the globe

A natural signal from a maize plant can be genetically activated, re-enabling m...

19.02.2010Gudrun Sander implementation officer of NRP 60

18.02.2010Call for funding applications: R’Equip 2010

The SNSF launches the call for proposals 2010 of the R’Equip program. Under R'E...

16.02.2010Guide 2010 – an overview of National Centres of Competence

The SNSF Guide 2010 brochure provides an overview of the current status of the ...

05.02.2010Explaining science imaginatively

An exhibition in Geneva reveals the secrets of modern genetic research in an en...

03.02.2010Call for funding applications: SNSF Professorships

With the SNSF Professorships, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) enab...

28.01.2010Lead Agency Agreement with Luxembourg

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Luxembourg National Resear...

28.01.2010Launch of a new funding instrument called “International Exploratory Workshops”

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) will launch the “International Exp...

28.01.2010Dominik Büchel implementation officer of NRP 65

27.01.2010ESF: EUROCORES - Call für Outline Proposals

The European Science Foundation (ESF) launches new Eurocores programmes and ope...

25.01.2010ERA-Net EuroNanoMed: eight projects supported

A panel of international experts has recommended to support 8 out of 26 project...

21.01.2010Active promotion of women in research: 41 new MHV subsidies awarded

2009 was a record year for submissions to the Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) Programm...

18.01.2010SNSF Website now available in Italian as well

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18.01.201029 new prestigious grants for Switzerland

On 14 January, the European Research Council (ERC) published the results of the...

14.01.2010ESF: Call for European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP)

The European Science Foundation has published a Call for Proposals for the Euro...

14.01.2010In spite of positive developments in Europe: equal opportunities don’t just happen

The European Commission publication, “She Figures 2009”, shows increasing growt...

08.01.2010Life-work balance – an issue for both women and men

How can an academic career with its intellectual challenges be reconciled with ...

05.01.20103D cinema for the human spine

Picture from research: New, more accurate screening method

21.12.2009NRP 64 is seeking an implementation officer