Swiss National Science Foundation

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📢 @chistera_net 2025 call for proposals – Science in your Own Language (SOL). Submission deadline: 15 April 2025 ➡️sohub.io/vpru

💡🌱From sustainable windows to the early detection of natural hazards thanks to AI: with the #BRIDGE funding programme, the SNSF and @Innosuisse invested over CHF 25 million in 51 innovative projects in 2024. ➡️ sohub.io/3vck

⏰🗓️ 7 days left: Nominations for the #MarcelBenoist Swiss Science Prize 2025 close on 24 February. Don't miss out on the chance to propose researchers from #MINT disciplines! 🏆 📷 Carmela Odoni ➡️ sohub.io/smko

#LeadAgency call with the SNSF 🇨🇭 and the @NSF (National Science Foundation) 🇺🇸: Applications can be submitted to the NSF by 31 March 2025 and to the SNSF by 1 April and 1 October 2025. ➡️ More information on our website: sohub.io/87dt

📣Call for proposals: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 This programme enables researchers based in Switzerland to do a research stay in Japan for 12 to 24 months. 🚨Submission deadline: 30 April 2025 snf.ch/en/y0zm3sSwV5b…

At a joint press conference, the SNSF and its ERI partners called on the Federal Council to abandon the planned cuts to education, #research & innovation in the "relief package 27", as they would have far-reaching consequences for the economy society. ➡️sohub.io/tshl

#IDWGS Day of Women and Girls in Science 🙆 🔬 📚 🍃 To strengthen the leadership qualities of women researchers, the SNSF ran the #PRIMA Leadership Programme for five years. Now, some of the participants have written a book to share personal stories. 🗓️ Book launch: 29 Sept 2025

📢 New call for proposals: #Spark enables researchers from all disciplines to test or develop novel and unconventional scientific approaches, methods, theories or ideas within a short time. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 4 March 2025. ➡️ snf.ch/en/CVNR0Q5f3P3…

New #call for proposals BRIDGE Discovery for experienced researchers, who wish to implement their #research and #innovation projects. Submission deadline: 25 March 2025. sohub.io/hmga

40 years of organic farming: strong for soils and efficient fibl.org/en/info-centre… @agroscope @CHblw @bafuCH @snf_ch @SBFI_CH @ETH

How can agriculture help fight climate change? Can problematic biological invasions be predicted? These are just two of the questions to be investigated by the 19 COST projects that the SNSF will fund with a total of 7 million francs. #research #science sohub.io/wqbq

#Call for proposals open: As part of the bilateral programmes, the SNSF and the National Research Foundation of #Korea are launching a call for Joint Research Projects in the #quantum domain. Submission deadline: 27 February 2025 sohub.io/za3m

📢Second #call for proposals: NRP 84 “Plant Breeding Innovation” seeks interdisciplinary #research projects on the humanities and social sciences. Submission deadline: 7 May 2025. sohub.io/gzvw

📢#JPND is launching a new #call for projects on "Health and social care research with a focus on the moderate and late stages of neurodegenerative diseases". 🗓️Submission deadline for pre-proposals: 4 March 2025 ➡️ sohub.io/e40x

ERA-NET NEURON is launching a new #call for proposals on “Interdisciplinary approaches to the neuroscience of pain”. Submission deadline for pre-proposals: 6 March 2025. sohub.io/23hx

2025 #call for COST projects in Switzerland COST encourages networking of scientific and technological research activities throughout Europe and beyond. The deadline for submission is 29.04.2025. sohub.io/orxr

The #SNSF is launching its new Leadership Programme. Early-career researchers who lead a research team funded by the SNSF are offered the possibility to engage with renowned speakers to enhance their #leadership, communication and team management #skills. sohub.io/v8na

📣 Pre-announcement of the @chistera_net Call 2025 on “Science in your Own Language” (SOL). Anticipated submission deadline: 15 April 2025. sohub.io/lglx

What do Saint Francis of Assisi and Diego Maradona have in common? A literature researcher at Bern University explains. 📚🧐😇 👉 Read our profile of Nicolas Detering, who unearths the saints of the past in contemporary culture: ➡️ sohub.io/hilo #FacesOfScience