Grants Office
The Grants Office ensures that the University of Basel can exploit its full potential in obtaining competitive research funding.
Horizon Europe
The European Commission has fully activated the transitional arrangements as of 1 January 2025. This enables researchers and innovators in Switzerland to participate as “beneficiaries” in almost all calls for proposals from Horizon Europe and the Euratom programme and in addition also the calls of the Digital Europe Programme. This means that, for Calls from the 2025 programme year, participants in Switzerland :
- can submit project proposals in the role of coordinator
- must prepare project proposals as a beneficiary and apply directly to the EU for funding (request EC contribution).
- must include their budget in the total amount of funding requested by the consortium from the EU.
This arrangement also includes ERC and MSCA calls. Currently excluded are calls in areas considered as strategically important by the EU (e.g. Quantum and Space), as well as Specific Objectives 3 (Cybersecurity) and 6 (Semiconductors) of Digital Europe. Further information can be found here, an overview of the expected call for proposals here.
Please note that for calls from 2024, i.e. with 2024 in the Call/Topic Identifier, Swiss partners remain Associated Partners and funding is provided by SERI, even if the deadline for the call is in 2025.
For further information on the situation, please visit the Horizon Europe website of the SERI.
Sould you have further questions please contact the Grants Office: grants@unibas.ch, 061 207 60 53
The Grants Office is the central contact point for National and International funding programmes at the University. Additionally, the Euresearch Mandate includes advising institutions outside the university, e.g. companies and start-ups, foundations, public authorities and other organizations. We provide advice and support at the proposal and project implementation stage.
The Grants office manages the Grants Tool and provides support by clarifying questions like structural aspects in research proposals or division of overheads. Furthermore we inform about open calls.
For general inquiries please send a message to grants@unibas.ch or call us on
+41 61 207 60 53.
In the framework of the the Euresearch Mandate our company advisor provides information to SMEs and Start-ups in the Region of Basel that apply for the European Research Framework Program Horizon Europe.
SMEs and Stat-ups please contact Gillianne Bowman:
gillianne.bowman@euresearch.ch oder +41 61 207 68 69.
National Grants
The Grants Office supports researchers with administrative questions concerning their proposal to the Swiss National Science Foundation or other national funding organizations.Further information on funding opportunities of the SNSF can be found under Individual Grants and Project Grants.
International Grants
We inform and advise researchers regarding grant applications to European and other international funding agencies. At the project phase we provide support with the contract management for projects at the university.
The main source of non-Swiss third party funding at the University of Basel comes from the EU framework programme (FP7 and Horizon 2020) projects.
Further information regarding Horizon Europe, the EU framework programme from 2021-2027, and regarding the situation for researchers in Switzerland can be fund on the Horizon Europe website of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), including this Q&A document.
