This is how we can support your research! - HES-SO

This is how we can support your
research!
Contents
1. Research funding in Switzerland
2. SNSF in brief
3. Funding opportunities for advanced researchers
Careers
Projects
Programmes
4. Submission of applications and selection procedure
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Swiss research landscape
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R&D: sources of finance in Switzerland
Total: CHF 16.3 billion
Source: Swiss Federal Office of Statistics, OECD, as at 2008
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R&D: federal funding
Total: CHF 3,3 billion
Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office, as at 2010
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The SNSF in brief
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Funding schemes
Free choice of theme and discipline
• Careers
• Projects
• Science communication
• Infrastructures
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Funding schemes
Thematic and conceptual constraints:
• National Research Programmes (NRP)
• National Centres of Competence in Research
(NCCR)
• Sinergia
• International collaborations
• Special programmes in biology and medicine
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Funding (general) by scheme 2012
Total: CHF 755.2 million
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Funding (general) by research area 2012
Total: CHF 755.2 million
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Funding opportunities: for whom?
Anonymous
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Funding opportunities: Overview
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Funding opportunities: Careers
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Career funding
Who can apply?
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Individuals looking to finance their own salary/gain a
fellowship
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Researchers between the levels of PhD and
professorship
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Programmes conceived for a specific academic age
group
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Other conditions detailed in the relevant regulations or
the call for proposals (see following presentation)
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Career funding
What can you get?
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Your own salary / fellowship
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Depending on the programme: money for research
costs (e.g. travel costs, consumables, salaries)
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Mobility for PhD students
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120%
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Careers: funding schemes
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Funding opportunities: Projects
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Project funding
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Grants for research projects that do not pursue
commercial goals
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Open to all research topics and disciplines
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Individuals or research groups acting as applicants
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Project duration: up to 3 years with the possibility of
one follow-up project (overall duration of 6 years max)
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Use of grant: for personnel, materials and
infrastructure, salary of applicant(s) excluded
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Project funding
What can you get?
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money for research costs (travel costs, consumables,
equipment, salaries)
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Mobility for PhD students
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120%
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Not your own salary
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Projects: one funding scheme
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Funding opportunities for advanced
researchers: Programmes
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Programmes
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New National Research Programmes
NRP 68 Sustainable Use of Soil as a Resource (12 Mio
CHF)
NRP 69 Healthy Nutrition and Sustainable Food
Production (12 Mio CHF)
NRP 70 Transforming Energy (37 Mio CHF)
NRP 71 Options for Controlling Energy Consumption
(8 Mio CHF)
Call for pre-proposals NRP 70 / 71: July – October 2013
NRPs generate scientific knowledge aimed at solving Switzerland’s most
pressing problems emanating from society, politics and the economy
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Examples of NCCRs started 2010
NCCR TransCure - From transport physiology to
identification of therapeutic targets, Bern
NCCR LIVES - Overcoming vulnerability: life course
perspectives, Lausanne/Geneva
NCCR Robotics - Intelligent Robots for Improving the
Quality of Life, EPFL
NCCR QSIT - Quantum Science and Technology, ETHZ
National Centres of Competence in Research promote long-term
research projects in areas of vital strategic importance for the
development of science in Switzerland, for the economy of the country,
and for Swiss society.
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Sinergia
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Small research networks
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Inter-institutional
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Disciplinary or interdisciplinary
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Innovative
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Very competitive scheme reserved for experienced
researchers
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Submission of applications
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Guidelines and documents
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Guidelines for selecting SNSF funding schemes
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Project and career funding: Guidelines for applicants
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Project and career funding: Description of the
evaluation procedure
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Project funding: Guidelines for Lifetime management
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snf.ch/E > Funding > Guidelines & Documents
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Evaluation procedure
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Scientific evaluation criteria
Proposed project
• Scientific relevance, topicality and originality
• Suitability of methods and feasibility
Applicants
• Scientific track record
• Professional expertise with regard to the project (in
project funding)
• Other criteria specific to programmes in career
funding (see following workshops)
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Evaluation procedure
Receiving applications,
checking if formal conditions are met
Evaluation of application based on a peer review
system, reader system or panel in one or two stages
Discussion and provisional decision in relevant body
Formal examination of evaluation procedure
and final decision
Communication of decision to applicants
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Further information
www.snsf.ch
Do not hesitate to contact us!
+41 (0)31 308 22 22
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