Call 2016
The call concerned projects in the following area:
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being: from new tools to systems understanding
- Sustainability, focusing on the following fields: Environmental Sciences, Engineering and energy-related issues
- Social sciences and humanities (including law) in the context of current and coming societal challenges
- Methodologies and technologies for data intensive applications
The call for proposals was open from 1 March 2016 to 31 May 2016.
The 89 submitted applications were jointly evaluated by the SNSF and the NRF. All in all, 12 applications were approved for funding. The SNSF will cover the costs of CHF 4 million for the Swiss part of the research and the NRF the costs incurred in South Africa.
Call 2013
The 65 submitted applications were jointly evaluated by the SNSF and South Africa's NRF. All in all, 25 applications were approved; the projects to be funded are distributed as follows across the different topics of the call:
- Public health and biomedicine: 10
- Biotechnology and nanotechnology: 5
- Environmental technology (greentech and cleantech): 6
- Humanities and social sciences: 4
The SNSF will cover the costs of CHF 5.5 million for the Swiss part of the research and the NRF the costs incurred in South Africa.