Welcome to the Funding Finder of the University of St. Gallen!
Are you looking for financial support for your studies? Or do you need funding for your research?
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.
Upcoming deadlines for submission
Fellowships Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society
The Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg aims at contributing to responsible leadership in business and society.Deadline 31.12.2024
Mobility grant for doctoral students of the University of St.Gallen (Mobi.Doc)
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 15.01.2025
Society in Science - The Branco Weiss Fellowship
Society in Science – The Branco Weiss Fellowship is a unique postdoc program. It awards young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for up to five years. Deadline 15.01.2025
SNSF Starting Grants
The SNSF Starting Grant enables grantees to lead an independent research project and manage a team of researchers in Switzerland.Deadline 15.01.2025
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
Promotionsstipendienprogramm: Die DBU vergibt jährlich 60 Promotionsstipendien für die Promotion an einer deutschen Hochschule (Bewerbungen auch von promotionsberechtigten Ausländer/innen möglich). Deadline 15.01.2025
Research Panel Fund at the University of St. Gallen
The Research Panel Fund can be used to finance academic conferences and conventions at the HSG.Deadline 15.01.2025
SNSF Scientific Image Competition
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
SNF: Postdoc.Mobility
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
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
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
SNSF: National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs)
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
More funding databases
Fundraiso
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.
Stiftungschweiz
Database of charitable trusts in Switzerland. Free use of basic features upon registration.
Register of Swiss Foundations
Extensive (but not exhaustive) register of all foundations in Switzerland.
German Foundation Index
The most comprehensive online navigation aid for the German foundation landscape.
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
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
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.
Funding opportunities for researchers according to career level
This website of the Grants Office St.Gallen provides for a list of funding opportunities according to the researcher's career level.
Foundations in the cantons St.Gallen, Thurgau and Ticino
The cantons of St.Gallen, Thurgau and Ticino maintain a joint register of foundations.