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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.
In its annual call for projects the SNIS invites academic researchers active in international studies to submit project proposals.Deadline 29.01.2025
The SNSF Scientific Image Competition encourages researchers working in Switzerland to present their works to the public and the media. Photographs, images and videos will be rated in terms of their aesthetic quality and their ability to inspire and amaze, to convey or illustrate knowledge, to tell a human story or to let us discover a new universe.Deadline 31.01.2025
Postdoc stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation are an instrument used to support highly qualified individual junior scholars with doctoral degrees in a research project for a limited period of time.Deadline 01.02.2025
Postdoc.Mobility fellowships are aimed at researchers who have done a doctorate and who wish to pursue an academic career in Switzerland. A research stay abroad enables such researchers to acquire more in-depth knowledge, increases their scientific independence and enhances their research profile.Deadline 01.02.2025
NCCRs are aimed at established researchers in Switzerland who wish to pursue a long-term research project on a theme of strategic importance.Deadline 03.02.2025
SCIEX is aimed at PhD students and postdocs affiliated with a Bulgarian institute, who are permanent residents in Bulgaria and who wish to do a research secondment in a non-commercial research institute in Switzerland.Deadline 03.02.2025
Die Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) vergibt jährlich einen Preis für eine hervorragende Dissertation (GI-Dissertationspreis). Die Dissertation muss in der Informatik angesiedelt sein.Deadline 14.02.2025
The Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize is awarded to established researchers whose work is relevant to all aspects of human life and society. The research must be of the highest quality, original, innovative and up-to-date. The awardee is recognised and has a strong track record. Deadline 24.02.2025
To promote research and education in cyber-defence, the EPFL and the Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus have jointly launched the “CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research.”Deadline 26.02.2025
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 01.03.2025
Funding Database for Foundations and Associaltions 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.
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.