CHIST-ERA 2025 call for proposals: Science in your Own Language

Since 2010, The European funding scheme CHIST-ERA (European coordinated research on long-term ICT and ICT-based scientific challenges) has been supporting collaborative research in information and communication technologies (ICT). This year, it is launching a call for proposals on the topic of Science in your Own Language (SOL).

Researchers can submit their projects from 17 February to 15 April 2025. Applicants will be notified of their proposal's acceptance from late July 2025 and projects will be able to start from 1 November 2025 at the earliest.

Under the CHIST-ERA funding scheme, international consortia comprising researchers from at least three of the following countries may submit applications: Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, the Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan and the United Kingdom. To foster broader dissemination of scientific excellence within the European Union, consortia are encouraged to include scientists from the enlargement countries (italicised above).

As CHIST-ERA is supported by the Horizon 2020 framework programme, to which Switzerland is fully associated, researchers in Switzerland are eligible to coordinate consortia.

An international panel will assess the applications from a scientific perspective. Each partner in a consortium is supported by a research-funding agency from their country or region. Applicants from Switzerland must be eligible for the SNSF's project funding scheme and are urged to contact us if this is their first submission to the SNSF.

In addition to the CHIST-ERA application, applicants must submit an administrative application to the SNSF via mySNF (under Programmes/ERA-NET). In addition, the consortia are encouraged to adopt best practices regarding open access to publications and open data from the moment they submit their project as per the new Open Science policy of CHIST-ERA.

Last year, topics supported by CHIST-ERA included multidimensional geographic information systems and smart contracts for digital transformation ecosystems. Of the nine projects approved, three included a partner in Switzerland.