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
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit
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
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships 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
Holcim Stiftung Wissen
The Holcim Foundation's purpose is to promote young scientists. Deadline 30.04.2025
The Einstein Foundation Award
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
National Scholarship programme of the Slovak Republic (NSP)
The National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic supports study/research/teaching/artistic mobility of foreign students, PhD students, university teachers, researchers and artists at higher education institutions and research organisations in Slovakia. Deadline 30.04.2025
Falling Walls Global Call
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
Innosuisse: Flagship Initiative
The Flagship Initiative aims to foster systemic innovation that helps to overcome major challenges for the economy and society.Deadline 07.05.2025
SNIS Annual Call for Projects
SNIS promotes academic research in the interdisciplinary area of international studies with an interest in phenomena that transcend traditional nation-state boundaries.Deadline 14.05.2025
Germaine de Staël
Mandated by the Swiss Confederation, the Germaine-de-Staël programme promotes French-Swiss research partnerships. It is open to all research disciplines and covers travel and accommodation costs for short stays with the partner team.Deadline 15.05.2025
Pivot Fellowship
The Pivot Fellowship programme, supported by the Simons Foundation, helps researchers with a strong track record in their current field to make contributions to a new discipline. Deadline 15.05.2025
More funding databases
Fundraiso
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.
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.
Ressortforschung des Bundes
Übersicht über die Politikbereiche der Ressortforschung des Bundes 2025-2028.
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.