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The Connect & Collaborate Grant (CCG) supports Swiss-based researchers who are addressing the world’s most pressing challenges by sharing knowledge, exchanging findings, and establishing long-lasting ties.Deadline 06.04.2025
CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide a salary and research and conference funds for up to two years, enabling fellows to complete a research project at the CYD Campus under the supervision of a professor at a higher education institution in Switzerland.Deadline 09.04.2025
CYD Doctoral Fellowships will provide a salary and research and conference funds for four years (with a possible one-year extension), enabling fellows to complete a PhD thesis at the CYD Campus under the supervision of a professor at a higher education institution in Switzerland.Deadline 09.04.2025
CHIST-ERA funds interdisciplinary collaborative research projects in the field of Information and Communication Sciences & TechnologiesDeadline 15.04.2025
The Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship enables PhD candidates to conduct short-term research at leading universities in Israel. Deadline 22.04.2025
The postdoctoral fellowships programme offered by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) enables researchers in Switzerland to stay in Japan for 12 to 24 months.Deadline 30.04.2025
Falling Walls fosters discussion on research and innovation and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. Deadline 30.04.2025
Die Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit bietet auf Grundlage der Idee des Liberalismus Angebote zur Politischen Bildung in Deutschland und in aller Welt. Mit Veranstaltungen und Publikationen helfen sie Menschen, sich aktiv im politischen Geschehen einzubringen.Deadline 30.04.2025
The Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité honors researchers, institutions, and early career researchers around the globe whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science and research.Deadline 30.04.2025
The Holcim Foundation's purpose is to promote young scientists. Deadline 30.04.2025
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.