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The new Grants Office presents itself
Dear researchers of the University of Lucerne
Since January 2024, the University of Lucerne has a newly established Grants Office. Anita Soltermann, the head of the Grants Office, has already managed and significantly developed the Grants Office at the University of Basel. The aim of the Grants Office is to ensure that you as a researcher can make the most of your potential for acquiring competitive third-party funding. The Grants Office advises you on the choice of the right funding instrument, supports you with the application process and project management, and strives to provide the best possible conditions and administrative processes for funding applications. Anita Soltermann is supported by Daniel Allemann, whom many of you will already know as a senior research and teaching fellow in the History Department.
Please feel free to drop by, you will find us in room 3.A18, or contact us by email:
For questions regarding SNSF and third-party funding: grantsremove-this.@remove-this.unilu.ch For questions regarding the internal research fund: fokoremove-this.@remove-this.unilu.ch
Please also follow us on X: @LucerneGrants
Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF
Project funding: submission deadline April 03, 2024 Reminder: The revised project funding regulations give more weight to collaborative and interdisciplinary research. The success rate for individual and collaborative applications should be roughly the same. For applications with at least three applicants, one applicant may be employed at a research institution outside Switzerland. The maximum budget per applicant is CHF 250,000 per year.
For the second time, applications for SNSF project funding will be submitted via the new SNSF portal. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the new portal in advance. The initial registration and setup of your mySNF account may take some time. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Last Doc.ch call for proposals: March 15, 2024 In its multi-year program 2025 - 2028, the SNSF has decided to focus on career funding from the postdoctoral level onwards. The Doc.ch instrument will be discontinued. However, support for doctoral students will continue to be an important component of project funding.
SNSF Starting Grants and Advanced Grants As part of the SNSF's transitional measures for ERC grants, five candidates have applied for a Starting Grant and one candidate for an Advanced Grant in the current call. Best of luck to the applicants!
Visit the "Open Calls" section on the SNSF website for a full overview of SNSF funding opportunities.
The resumption of talks on a bilateral agreement (package approach) between Switzerland and the European Union is bearing fruit! The participation of researchers in Switzerland in Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ should be possible again. The following transitional arrangements have been agreed with the EU until the association agreement is concluded:
ERC Advanced Grants 2024 Now that the negotiations on Switzerland's association have started, researchers at Swiss institutions can submit applications to the EU for the ERC Advanced Grant 2024. The submission deadline is August 29, 2024 and the call for proposals is to be published at the end of May 2024. Calls for proposals 2025 As soon as the Association Agreement has been negotiated and initialed, researchers in Switzerland will have access to all calls for proposals for the 2025 program year. This means that they will be listed as "beneficiaries" and funded directly by the EU. The calls for proposals for 2025 are not expected to be published until late 2024/early 2025 due to the elections to the EU Parliament. Further information can be found on the website of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI. If you have any questions, please contact the Grants Office: grantsremove-this.@remove-this.unilu.ch
Further Funding Opportunities
Science communication: Gebert Rüf Stiftung's "Scientainment" funding line supports innovative science communication projects that reach a broad public. Submission deadline: May 1, 2024
PostDocs: Branco Weiss Fellowships are aimed at postdocs from all disciplines with unconventional, "outside the mainstream" project ideas. The maximum amount is CHF 600,000 over five years. The submission deadline is January 15, 2025.
The next deadline for FoKo proposal submission is February 26, 2024. The meeting of the research committee (FoKo) will take place on March 21.
Further information can be found on the FoKo website.
We would like to congratulate the following researchers for their recent grants:
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Martin Baumann for his SNF Weave Project "Between Intensification and Relativisation. Modalities and Mechanisms of Religious Change of Muslim and Christian Refugees from Syria in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (BIR)"
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Mira Burri for winning the WEF "ASEAN Digital Economy Agreement Leadership" tender
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Armin Gemperli for his SNF Project "Gender inequity in access to healthcare services in individuals with spinal cord injury living in the community: a comparison between 30 countries"
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Simon Lüchinger for the SNSF contribution to the SSES Annual Congress 2024
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Gisela Michel and the consortium for the Horizon Euope Collaborative Project "eQuol"
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