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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.
EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Postdoctoral Fellowships support internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers in Europe and around the world.Deadline 10.07.2026
Temperatio supports environmental, social and cultural projects.Deadline 15.07.2026
The funding opportunity is open to researchers from all countries with a doctoral degree who wish to follow a postdoctoral programme in higher education institutions, organised or subsidised by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Deadline 15.07.2026
This program offers opportunities for graduate and Ph.D. students, young professionals and artists to study or conduct research at U.S. universities or other appropriate institutions.Deadline 03.08.2026
This is a non-degree, post-doctoral award program for researchers, university lecturers, and experts from academic institutions in Switzerland.Deadline 03.08.2026
Postdoc.Mobility fellowships are aimed at researchers who have done a doctorate and who wish to conduct a research stay abroad. The objective of a research stay abroad is to enable them to acquire more in-depth knowledge, to extend their scientific network and independence and to enhance their research profile, in view of a future scientific or academic career in Switzerland.Deadline 04.08.2026
Open-i yearly offers the Swiss Technology Award. Open-i is the pioneering Swiss innovation community and dialogue platform for the economy and the science sector. Their goal is to bring innovative thinkers and doers together in order to pave the way for cooperation that will secure Switzerland’s leading role as an innovative and successful market.Deadline 14.08.2026
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) carries out programs that provide excellent researchers from other countries an opportunity to conduct collaborative research, discussions, and opinion exchanges with researchers in Japan. Deadline 28.08.2026
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) provides opportunities for pre-/post-doctoral researchers from other countries to conduct cooperative research under the guidance of their hosts with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions.Deadline 28.08.2026
With this prize, ECSA Suisse promotes young researchers in Switzerland. The prize is awarded to scholars affiliated to a Swiss University or research institute who published an excellent single-authored research article in an academic journal. Deadline 31.08.2026
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.