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Grants Office Newsletter December 2024

Dear Researchers of the University of Basel,

In the last issue of our Newsletter for this year, we talk to Prof Anna Petrig from the Faculty of Law about the COST project that she will be coordinating over the next four years.

We congratulate our successful SNSF Starting Grantees, whose projects will be financed by the SNSF as part of the measures to compensate the non-association to Horizon Europe. On that subject, we report on the hopes for increased access to Horizon Europe next year.

Taking a further look into 2025, the SNSF has announced several new international collaborative Calls to be launched in the coming months. Further details can be found in the events and Calls section below.

After a busy but fruitful year, we send season’s greetings and wish you all a nice break and a good start to 2025.

The Grants Office Team

Eve Silfverberg, Gillianne Bowman, Aleksandra Grzegorczyk, Luca Wacker & Julia Wyss


Update Horizon Europe

This year, the negotiation teams in Brussels and Bern have been working intensively on the future relationship between Switzerland and the European Union (EU), and at the end of this week the Federal Council is expected to announce the results of these discussions. What will this mean for research? One of the aims is to “ensure more systematic participation in EU programmes” for Switzerland, which includes Horizon Europe.

Although Switzerland is not fully associated to Horizon Europe, there have been some very positive developments this year, including access to this year’s ERC Calls. If all goes well, such transitional arrangements should be extended in 2025, allowing researchers in Switzerland to apply to almost all Horizon Europe Calls as equal partners and also to coordinate collaborative projects. We will keep you updated and inform you about what this means for the preparation of your proposal.

In March, we plan the first event about the “Health Cluster” collaborative projects. Further targeted events for other Calls will follow later in the year. An overview of the already announced Calls can be found here.


Ensuring human rights at sea

Anna Petrig

Human rights at sea is the focus of the newly acquired COST Action project, “BlueRights”, led by Prof. Anna Petrig from the Faculty of Law.

In an interview for the Grants Office newsletter, she explains the main aim of the project and shares her experience in preparing the proposal.

The 2025 Call for proposals for COST Actions has the deadline 21st October 2025.

Read more.


SNSF Starting Grants


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Congratulations to the six grantees who were awarded an SNSF Starting Grant from 2024 Call.

The Department of Social Sciences celebrates three Grants from Janina Grabs, Matthias Leanza and Luregn Lenggenhager. Susanne Schmidt will join the Department of History, Mariana Borsa the Department of Biomedicine and the Biozentrum celebrates a grant from Yuping Li who recently joined them as assistant professor.

We wish them all the very best with their projects.


Open Access Fees

The Open Science Team at the University Library has the following updates:

Read and Publish Agreement with Wiley: Discussions with Wiley regarding an Agreement for 2025, with Open Access publication options for the upcoming year, are ongoing. Please check our updates on the library webpage. An overview of existing open access publishing options is available on Open Access Unibas. And if you have questions please contact: openaccess@unibas.ch

Cost coverage by the SNSF of journal articles: Please be aware that from January 2025 on, the SNSF will not reimburse costs for Gold Open Access articles. Invoices should be submitted directly, before any payment has been made

Research Data Management: If you are you working with personal data the checklist "Dealing with personal data in research" guides you through helpful steps.


Science Communication

The flower of life © Volkan Adak

Horizonte - The Swiss Research Magazine, jointly published by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Science, features contributions from Dominique de Quervain (Department of Biomedicine) and Katrin Bopp (University Hospital) on The never-ending pandemic and new treatments for Long-Covid and Claske Dijkema (Swisspeace) on Understanding violence in the banlieus.

On another note, the SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2025 is now open. Submit your research photos or videos until 31 January 2025. With a little bit of luck, your photo will appear in our Grants Office Newsletter.


More successes!

The Grants Office would like to congratulate:

  • Andreas Barbero, Valentina Basoli, Anne-Cécile Hebel, Henriette Heinrich, Markus Kalberer, Diego Kyburz and Stavros Stagakis for their EU projects
  • The PIs of 31 SNSF projects
  • Lorenza Mondada and Sergio Wittlin for their Weave/Lead Agency projects
  • Bernice Elger, Alfred Früh and Sarah Koch with a total of four NFP 83 and 84 projects
  • The PIs of 12 SPARK projects
  • Markus Heim, Sandro Nuciforo, Dominique de Quervain and Andreas Papassotiropoulos for their Innosuisse projects
  • Mike Hall for the Balzan Prize
  • Jürg Utzinger for his Belmont Forum project
  • Mattia Zampieri for a FreeNovation grant
  • Matthias Schwenkglenks and Mihaela Zavolan for their Krebsforschung Schweiz grant
  • Markus Krajewski for a NOMIS Foundation project

Events

IHI Call Days - Call 9 & 10

The IHI Call Days provide potential applicants with the information they need to put together a strong proposal, and give them the opportunity to identify and meet partners for their consortia.

7-16 January, online.

Find detailed agenda and register here.

New UK-Swiss bilateral funding for clinical trials

Webinar on the joint call of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

9 January, 15.00-16.15, online

Register here.

COST Info Day 2025

The aim is to inform the research community about how to participate in COST Actions or submit a COST Action proposal. The event is especially dedicated to young researchers.

18 February, 10.00-11.45, online

Register here.

Health Information Event for 2025 Calls

Euresearch, together with the Grants Office will inform you about the Horizon Europe Calls from the Health Cluster, coming up in 2025.

25 March, 12.30-13.30, online

Register here.

Calls

Branco Weiss Fellowship

For junior researchers with a record of outstanding scientific achievement and a passion for venturing into new territory.

Submission deadline 15 January

Call website.

Swiss Network for International Studies

Call for project grants for pluri-disciplinary teams working on international studies for social sciences and projects combining natural and social science. The theme 2025 is “Leveraging Emerging Technologies in an Era of Disruption and Growing Inequality”.

Submission deadline of pre-proposal 22 January

Call website.

European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS)

The aim of this call – “Better Care Closer to Home: Enhancing Primary and Community Care” – is to fund research projects that strengthen primary and community health and care systems and/or have a systemic approach to modernizing the care sector.  

Deadline for pre-proposal 30 January

Call website.

Southeast Asia - Europe Joint Funding Scheme

This multilateral call focuses on “Climate Change Adaptation and Local Resilience” At least 3 partners from 3 countries collaborate, one of them must be based in Southeast Asia.

Submission deadline 31 January (12.00 noon)

Call website.

IBSA Fellowship 2024

IBSA Foundation offers 6 fellowships to researchers under 40 in the areas dermatology, endocrinology, fertility/urology, orthopaedics/pain medicine/rheumatology or healthy ageing/regenerative medicine.

Submission deadline 31 January

Call website.

Joint call SNSF and South Korea for Quantum Science

Beginning of January 2025, SNSF and the National Research Foundation of Korea are launching another call for Joint Research Projects in the quantum domain (including quantum ethics).

More information.

Diabetes Research in Europe

European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes and Novo Nordisk Foundation jointly fund basic and/or clinical research projects.

Submission deadline 3 February

Call website.

Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship

For early and mid-career researchers dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide.

Submission deadline 4 February

Call website.

ERDERA: Rare Diseases Therapies

The European Rare Disease Research Alliance is launching a first call for proposals.

Submission deadline pre-proposals 13 February

Call website.

AO innovation funding

Empowering innovators: From conception to market. AO foundation supports innovative solutions to a real clinical/educational problem.

 

Submission deadline 28 February

Call website.

FreeNovation 2025

The Novartis FreeNovation call 2025 is dedicated to the following topics: glycobiology, therapeutic future of epigenetics and In vivo biology.

Submission deadline 16 March

Call document.

Human Frontier Science Program

Research grants are awarded to teams of scientists from different countries with innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered individually. Participation of scientists outside the traditional life sciences is recommended.

Submission deadline letter of intent 27 March (initiation by 18 March)

Call website.

BRIDGE Discovery

BRIDGE is a funding programme of the SNSF and Innosuisse. The Discovery scheme supports research and innovation projects from any discipline, with a clear potential for societal or economic impact.

Submission deadline 25 March

Call website.

Pathfinder: Open and Challenges

The EIC Pathfinder supports the earliest phases of scientific and technical research and development of future, groundbreaking, market-creating technologies and/or deep tech technologies.

Deadline for Open: 21 May

Deadline for Challenges: 29 October

Call website.

Check out Research Professional for more national and international Calls.

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