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Choose the appropriate category below and find all relevant funding types of scholarships, study loans, grants, awards, prizes and other financial help that foster your personal career in your studies or your research.
The Velux Stiftung supports researchers who aim to discover and transfer new knowledge to those who can forster change to create a positive impact on all humankind. With the current ophthalmology funding program, Velux Stiftung wants to contribute to ultimately reduce visual impairments and blindness in LMICs through research funding.Deadline 01.10.2026
The International Co-Investigator Scheme provides funding for cross-border projects which include a subproject abroad.Deadline 01.10.2026
Research in all disciplines: Project funding is aimed at experienced researchers working in Switzerland who wish to obtain funding for a project of their own. The research topic can be chosen freely.Deadline 01.10.2026
Starting Grants are intended for talented early-career researchers and may be awarded for a period of up to five years and for a grant of up to 1.5 million EUR.Deadline 14.10.2026
Singapore Management University (SMU), a dynamic and globally engaged university with recognised strengths in areas such as management, computing, law, economics, and social sciences, invites outstanding talents to join us as tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor under the University’s new Presidential Early Career Professorship (SMU-PEP) Scheme.Deadline 15.10.2026
The foundation is active in the areas of education, health, human rights, development cooperation, environmental and climate protection, and the protection of children and women in Switzerland and abroad.Deadline 19.10.2026
SNIS honours high-quality, policy-relevant academic papers with the International Geneva Award.Deadline 21.10.2026
The SNIS International Geneva Award is for authors who have published their papers in the domain of international studies whose findings are accessible to a wider audience and relevant to the work of international Organisations.Deadline 21.10.2026
The Wolfgang Ritter Prize honours national and international academic work in the field of business administration and economics - also and especially by young academics who deal with business in a market economy. Deadline 25.10.2026
The Flagship Initiative aims to find solutions to current or future challenges relevant to a large part of the economy or society.Deadline 27.10.2026
Funding Database for Foundations and Associations mainly in Switzerland. Free registration is necessary to use the database. You can search for free keywords, countries, cantons and kinds of funding.
Database of charitable trusts in Switzerland. Free use of basic features upon registration.
Extensive (but not exhaustive) register of all foundations in Switzerland.
Übersicht über die Politikbereiche der Ressortforschung des Bundes 2025-2028.
The most comprehensive online navigation aid for the German foundation landscape.
The online database provides an overview of more than 650 foundations active in Switzerland in the fields of environment and energy as well as education, research and innovation.
culturalpromotion.ch is an information service of the Federal Office of Culture BAK and Migros-Kulturprozent. It assists in the search for funding in the cultural sector.
This website of the Grants Office St.Gallen provides for a list of funding opportunities according to the researcher's career level.
The cantons of St.Gallen, Thurgau and Ticino maintain a joint register of foundations.