The funding programmes of the SNSF are funding schemes whose basic parameters are pre-defined. These parameters may be of a thematic or conceptual/organisational nature. Some of the SNSF's programmes were suggested by researchers and their home institutions, while others were established by political actors.
The SNSF offers the following programmes:
National Research Programmes (NRPs) generate scientific knowledge aimed at solving pressing current problems of national significance.
National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) promote long-term research projects on issues of strategic importance for the future of Swiss science, the Swiss economy and Swiss society.
International co-operation programmes promote co-operations between researchers in Switzerland and abroad, particularly in certain countries.
SCOPES (Eastern Europe)
Enlargement contribution: Romania, Bulgaria
Research partnerships with developing countries
Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d.ch)
Special programmes for biology and medicine enable researchers to receive financial support for large-scale research projects that are conducted by consortia or networks.
Cohort studies
Clinical Trial Units
Special Programme University Medicine
Sinergia enables researchers from all disciplines to conduct disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in small networks.
Doctoral programmes (ProDoc) (to be discontinued)