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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 Last Mile programme supports researchers of the University of St.Gallen with funds of the Basic Research Fund (BRF) for the writing of research publications.Deadline 01.09.2026
NCCRs (National Centres of Competence in Research) are intended for experienced researchers and consist of several research groups working together in an interdisciplinary, interuniversity network with partners from the academic, public and private sectors, addressing topics of scientific, societal and economic relevance.Deadline 01.09.2026
Support of projects by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation focuses on scholars in the humanities, social sciences and biomedicine fields. Deadline 01.09.2026
NCCRs are aimed at established researchers in Switzerland who wish to pursue a long-term research project on a theme of strategic importance.Deadline 01.09.2026
The University of St.Gallen supports young researchers with the new “Mobility grant for doctoral students of the University of St.Gallen” (Mobi.Doc) who would like to strengthen their academic profile with a research stay abroad and are not employed within an SNSF project. Deadline 01.09.2026
The Health Forward Programme supports research projects in the field of health sciences that enable the recipients to prepare and submit applications to national or international research funding bodies.Deadline 01.09.2026
The Stepping Stone Programme supports research projects at the University of St.Gallen that enable recipients to prepare and submit applications to national or international research funding bodies.Deadline 01.09.2026
Bilateral Switzerland-UK project call for joint research and development projects on innovative applications and products with high market potential in the Semiconductors, Life Sciences and Engineering Biology fieldDeadline 03.09.2026
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 07.09.2026
The BRIDGE Proof of Concept funding program promotes the further development of scientific results in order to evaluate their economic and/or social potential. It supports researchers who want to implement their research results with a view to entrepreneurial activity or with a partner from the private or public sector.Deadline 07.09.2026
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.