Eligible to participate are researchers whose current research is in the humanities and social sciences.
Applicants must meet the requirements set out in Article 10 of the Funding Regulations. Their work quota may be lower than 50%, but not lower than 20%.
Applicants with a doctorate must have obtained the latter before the submission date of the application. Applicants without a doctorate must generally have completed three years of research work as their main source of income since obtaining their higher education degree. Such research work will be regarded as equivalent to a doctorate.
Applicants may submit one application only in relation to this call.
The restrictions on the number of ongoing projects and project funding applications do not apply to the present call.
Application
Applications must be submitted via the mySNF platform.
mySNF
Please select the funding scheme "Digital Lives".
The requirements for the research plan are set out in Call document.
Call document
Evaluation procedure
The SNSF appoints a panel consisting of members of the Research Council as well as national and international experts to conduct the evaluation. The evaluation panel awards a grade (out of a six-point grading system) based on the evaluation criteria and a comparison of all the applications submitted. At the recommendation of the evaluation panel, the Humanities and Social Sciences division of the National Research Council awards a grade that determines whether the project will be funded. The decisions made by the division are subsequently endorsed by the Presiding Board of the Research Council. The funding decisions are communicated to the applicants in the form of a ruling in August 2018 at the latest.
The list contains the names of the members of evaluation bodies. For the SNSF, interaction between applicants and members of evaluation bodies over applications is not compatible with academic best practices.