-
07/Aug/2020
The SNSF awards Doc.CH grants to 21 young researchers who wish to write a doctoral thesis in the humanities and social sciences. They receive 216,000 francs per grant on average.
Doc.CH: SNSF supports 21 doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences: Details
-
05/Aug/2020
The new Practice-to-Science funding scheme has attracted great interest among experts who wish to return to academia at universities of applied science or universities of teacher education.
More than 100 applications in response to the first Practice-to-Science call: Details
-
04/Aug/2020
New research has been launched to better control COVID-19. 18.6 million francs have been invested in projects that will investigate innovative solutions and develop public health recommendations.
28 new coronavirus research projects funded under NRP "COVID-19": Details
-
03/Aug/2020
The SNSF has adopted the DORA recommendations in its career funding schemes and adapted some other criteria. This will make the selection process even fairer and more inclusive of re-searchers with diverse career paths.
Career funding: the researcher’s overall performance counts: Details
-
28/Jul/2020
Experienced researchers use the SNSF's project funding scheme to investigate self-chosen topics. They submitted 1032 applications in response to the first call of 2020.
More than 1000 project funding applications: Details
-
23/Jul/2020
The SNSF's PROMYS pilot programme is funding seven promising young researchers in Eastern Europe. This facilitates attractive new partnerships for Swiss research within the European network.
New partnerships with Eastern Europe enrich research in Switzerland: Details
-
15/Jul/2020
Publish an open access article in "Clinical Immunology" or "Journal of Materials Science"? Thanks to new agreements between universities and publishers, this is now free of charge for Swiss researchers.
Breakthrough in negotiations with large publishing houses: Details
-
10/Jul/2020
Simplified submission process: SNSF signs Lead Agency agreement with Croatian funding organisation HRZZ.
Joint projects with Croatia: Details
-
09/Jul/2020
Doctors can do an MD-PhD in natural sciences, public health sciences, clinical research or biomedical ethics.
Eleven MD-PhD grants awarded: Details
-
03/Jul/2020
Due to widespread concerns about the climate, the environmental parties made significant gains in the 2019 federal elections, especially among young voters. The SP was able to mobilise its party base well, but lost almost a quarter of its former electorate to the Greens. In contrast, the SVP encountered difficulties persuading its supporters to turn out to vote. It does, however, have the most stable voter base among all parties. The mobilisation of women across party lines was only partially successful. Nevertheless, 2019 turned out to be the year of electoral success for women, because the willingness to vote for women instead of men increased significantly compared to 2015. These are some of the findings revealed in a report from the national election study Selects, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and conducted by the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS in Lausanne.
Influx from the SP helps the Greens to win elections: Details
-
01/Jul/2020
The SNSF and the Dutch Research Council have agreed to finance joint projects. This will make it much easier for Swiss researchers to collaborate with their Dutch counterparts.
Dutch on board: Details
-
30/Jun/2020
Many scientists are currently undertaking work on the Sars-CoV-2 virus. But hundreds of projects supported by the SNSF are already contributing to finding answers to the current health crisis.
Meeting challenges through basic research: Details
-
25/Jun/2020
NRP 69 recommends that the government develop a Swiss Food Strategy for 2050. This strategy should enable the entire population to eat healthy food sourced from a sustainable production and distribution system.
Towards a Swiss Food Strategy for 2050: Details
-
22/Jun/2020
With its Sinergia programme, the SNSF finances research that is interdisciplinary, collaborative and innovative. For example, research aimed at improving the prediction of epileptic seizures.
40.8 million francs for Sinergia projects: Details
-
16/Jun/2020
Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation and the current pandemic crisis make it obvious. The need for a more sustainable world has never been as urgent as it is today. But how do we transition to a sustainable economy? The National Research Programme "Sustainable Economy: resource-friendly, future-oriented, innovative" (NRP 73) is creating knowledge that can support Switzerland in addressing this question. It has now published its first report, on the state of research at the midway point.
Is Switzerland ready for change?: Details