Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
@snsf.ch
The Swiss National Science Foundation funds excellent research at universities and other institutions – from chemistry to medicine to sociology.
We invest in researchers and their ideas 🔬🌱📚 — www.snf.ch/en
Deutsch & Français: @snf-fns.ch
We invest in researchers and their ideas 🔬🌱📚 — www.snf.ch/en
Deutsch & Français: @snf-fns.ch
New European cOAlition S strategy for 2026-2030 to further strengthen #OpenAccess. 🔓
The SNSF is part of cOAlition S. We are delighted to continue this successful collaboration.
👉 The strategy in detail:
The SNSF is part of cOAlition S. We are delighted to continue this successful collaboration.
👉 The strategy in detail:
cOAlition S Strategy for 2026-2030
<p>Launched in 2018, cOAlition S emerged as an informal coalition of organisations that publicly expressed their intention to implement Plan S. Seven years later, the coalition is defining a new…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New European cOAlition S strategy for 2026-2030 to further strengthen #OpenAccess. 🔓
The SNSF is part of cOAlition S. We are delighted to continue this successful collaboration.
👉 The strategy in detail:
The SNSF is part of cOAlition S. We are delighted to continue this successful collaboration.
👉 The strategy in detail:
💩🕵️ 💻 ⚖️ From improved wastewater treatment to new rules for digital evidence: With its largest funding scheme, the #SNSF is supporting 346 projects spanning the full spectrum of the Swiss research landscape with a total of 326 million francs. 💸💡
👉https://buff.ly/Iq17IFW
👉https://buff.ly/Iq17IFW
Investing in diverse research
Wastewater, digital evidence and forest health: The SNSF is funding a wide range of research projects with a total of 326 million francs.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
💩🕵️ 💻 ⚖️ From improved wastewater treatment to new rules for digital evidence: With its largest funding scheme, the #SNSF is supporting 346 projects spanning the full spectrum of the Swiss research landscape with a total of 326 million francs. 💸💡
👉https://buff.ly/Iq17IFW
👉https://buff.ly/Iq17IFW
❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset
For all researchers collaborating internationally: 🌍
📒 The Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance) has published a new guide.
Take note of the six principles that can help you build effective and equitable partnerships. 🤝
👉 https://sohub.io/powg
📒 The Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance) has published a new guide.
Take note of the six principles that can help you build effective and equitable partnerships. 🤝
👉 https://sohub.io/powg
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
For all researchers collaborating internationally: 🌍
📒 The Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance) has published a new guide.
Take note of the six principles that can help you build effective and equitable partnerships. 🤝
👉 https://sohub.io/powg
📒 The Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance) has published a new guide.
Take note of the six principles that can help you build effective and equitable partnerships. 🤝
👉 https://sohub.io/powg
🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
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📷 WBF/DEFR
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
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📣 #BRIDGE Discovery: Out of the 108 applications submitted, 15 new projects were approved, including nine with a strong digital dimension: www.bridge.ch/en/Ks8ndwLnD...
💡Next #call deadline: 28 April 2026
💡Next #call deadline: 28 April 2026
22 million for BRIDGE projects
Out of the 108 submitted applications, 15 Discovery projects were approved, including nine with a significant digital dimension.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📣 #BRIDGE Discovery: Out of the 108 applications submitted, 15 new projects were approved, including nine with a strong digital dimension: www.bridge.ch/en/Ks8ndwLnD...
💡Next #call deadline: 28 April 2026
💡Next #call deadline: 28 April 2026
How can we calibrate instruments that analyse planets outside our solar system and operate the computers of the future? With chip-based optical frequency combs. 🌌 🖥️
Learn more in the profile of Tobias Kippenberg, winner of the #MarcelBenoist Swiss Science Prize 2025.
Learn more in the profile of Tobias Kippenberg, winner of the #MarcelBenoist Swiss Science Prize 2025.
Prix scientifique Suisse Marcel Benoist 2025 - Tobias J. Kippenberg
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November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
How can we calibrate instruments that analyse planets outside our solar system and operate the computers of the future? With chip-based optical frequency combs. 🌌 🖥️
Learn more in the profile of Tobias Kippenberg, winner of the #MarcelBenoist Swiss Science Prize 2025.
Learn more in the profile of Tobias Kippenberg, winner of the #MarcelBenoist Swiss Science Prize 2025.
“What place do animals occupy in the current legal system? And what place could they have in the future as subjects and holders of rights?” From the profile of Saskia Stucki, winner of the #Latsis Swiss Science Prize 2025 for her work on #AnimalRights. ⚖️ 🐶 🐔
Latsis Prize 2025: Saskia Stucki aims to establish animal rights
YouTube video by Swiss National Science Foundation
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November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“What place do animals occupy in the current legal system? And what place could they have in the future as subjects and holders of rights?” From the profile of Saskia Stucki, winner of the #Latsis Swiss Science Prize 2025 for her work on #AnimalRights. ⚖️ 🐶 🐔
#SwissScienceImage
📷 Submit your best #photos and #videos of your research to the SNSF Scientific Image Competition!
The winning entries will be exhibited at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in May 2026.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 2 February 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/kw8d
📷 Submit your best #photos and #videos of your research to the SNSF Scientific Image Competition!
The winning entries will be exhibited at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in May 2026.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 2 February 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/kw8d
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#SwissScienceImage
📷 Submit your best #photos and #videos of your research to the SNSF Scientific Image Competition!
The winning entries will be exhibited at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in May 2026.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 2 February 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/kw8d
📷 Submit your best #photos and #videos of your research to the SNSF Scientific Image Competition!
The winning entries will be exhibited at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in May 2026.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 2 February 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/kw8d
🏆The winner of the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize is Anna Feller!
🌱As an evolutionary biologist, she investigates why closely related species - such as the North American phlox wildflowers - do not reproduce with each other. Her research contributes to our understanding of biodiversity.
👉 sohub.io/inx1
🌱As an evolutionary biologist, she investigates why closely related species - such as the North American phlox wildflowers - do not reproduce with each other. Her research contributes to our understanding of biodiversity.
👉 sohub.io/inx1
Anna Feller wins the 2025 MHV Prize.
YouTube video by Swiss National Science Foundation
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November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🏆The winner of the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize is Anna Feller!
🌱As an evolutionary biologist, she investigates why closely related species - such as the North American phlox wildflowers - do not reproduce with each other. Her research contributes to our understanding of biodiversity.
👉 sohub.io/inx1
🌱As an evolutionary biologist, she investigates why closely related species - such as the North American phlox wildflowers - do not reproduce with each other. Her research contributes to our understanding of biodiversity.
👉 sohub.io/inx1
#Call for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025.
➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#Call for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025.
➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
✨ Searching for extraterrestrial life or combating speech disorders: The SNSF is awarding #SNSFStartingGrants to 41 outstanding researchers. They will receive a maximum of CHF 1 million to lead a project with their own #research team at a Swiss university. 🚀
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
ℹ️ sohub.io/aq26
💨 🦅 Every so often #RedKites die in collisions with #WindTurbines. A study funded by the SNSF shows when and where this happens and what might help.
For more info 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf
For more info 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
💨 🦅 Every so often #RedKites die in collisions with #WindTurbines. A study funded by the SNSF shows when and where this happens and what might help.
For more info 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf
For more info 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf
How can SNSF datasets be combined to explore the research question of your choice?💡
Our latest #DataStory demonstrates how to join our open datasets, in this case to identify the share of grants with different types of research output.📊
Read the full story here 👉 https://sohub.io/8e6a
Our latest #DataStory demonstrates how to join our open datasets, in this case to identify the share of grants with different types of research output.📊
Read the full story here 👉 https://sohub.io/8e6a
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How can SNSF datasets be combined to explore the research question of your choice?💡
Our latest #DataStory demonstrates how to join our open datasets, in this case to identify the share of grants with different types of research output.📊
Read the full story here 👉 https://sohub.io/8e6a
Our latest #DataStory demonstrates how to join our open datasets, in this case to identify the share of grants with different types of research output.📊
Read the full story here 👉 https://sohub.io/8e6a
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Der @consilium.europa.eu gibt grünes Licht für die Unterzeichnung des Programmabkommens 🇪🇺 mit der Schweiz 🇨🇭 am 10. Nov. Das Vorziehen dieses Teils des bilateralen Vertragspakets ermöglicht die Teilnahme der Schweiz an #HorizonEurope schon ab 2025.
Mehr dazu⤵️:
Mehr dazu⤵️:
Council greenlights Swiss participation in several EU programmes, including:
🔸 Horizon Europe
🔸 Euratom Research and Training
🔸 ITER/Fusion for Energy
🔸 Digital Europe
🔸 Erasmus+
🔸 EU4Health
More info⤵️
link.europa.eu/9cRYfc
🔸 Horizon Europe
🔸 Euratom Research and Training
🔸 ITER/Fusion for Energy
🔸 Digital Europe
🔸 Erasmus+
🔸 EU4Health
More info⤵️
link.europa.eu/9cRYfc
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Der @consilium.europa.eu gibt grünes Licht für die Unterzeichnung des Programmabkommens 🇪🇺 mit der Schweiz 🇨🇭 am 10. Nov. Das Vorziehen dieses Teils des bilateralen Vertragspakets ermöglicht die Teilnahme der Schweiz an #HorizonEurope schon ab 2025.
Mehr dazu⤵️:
Mehr dazu⤵️:
🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 The SNSF's partnership with CIFAR offers researchers based in Switzerland a wide range of opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaboration. We will present these possibilities in a webinar on 20 October 2025. Register here ➡️
October 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🇨🇦🤝🇨🇭 The SNSF's partnership with CIFAR offers researchers based in Switzerland a wide range of opportunities for international and interdisciplinary collaboration. We will present these possibilities in a webinar on 20 October 2025. Register here ➡️
📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026
➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw
📣 The SNSF supports the bilateral agreements III, which are essential for #science in Switzerland and stable relations with the #EU.
They will strengthen Switzerland's competitiveness, a key factor for progress in research, as well as for the #economy and #society.
➡️ https://sohub.io/vw8b
They will strengthen Switzerland's competitiveness, a key factor for progress in research, as well as for the #economy and #society.
➡️ https://sohub.io/vw8b
October 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📣 The SNSF supports the bilateral agreements III, which are essential for #science in Switzerland and stable relations with the #EU.
They will strengthen Switzerland's competitiveness, a key factor for progress in research, as well as for the #economy and #society.
➡️ https://sohub.io/vw8b
They will strengthen Switzerland's competitiveness, a key factor for progress in research, as well as for the #economy and #society.
➡️ https://sohub.io/vw8b
China is one of Switzerland’s main trading partners. Anthropologist @lenakaufmann.bsky.social and historian Niklaus Remund analyse half a century of this commercial partnership in a study that is particularly topical in view of current trade wars.
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👉 buff.ly/S1hJQrw
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
China is one of Switzerland’s main trading partners. Anthropologist @lenakaufmann.bsky.social and historian Niklaus Remund analyse half a century of this commercial partnership in a study that is particularly topical in view of current trade wars.
👉 buff.ly/S1hJQrw
👉 buff.ly/S1hJQrw
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Untergraben die vom Bundesrat geplanten Budget-Kürzungen im Bereich Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (BFI) den Wissensstandort Schweiz, der bisher Talente aus aller Welt angezogen hat und exzellente Forschung zu betreiben ermöglichte?
Die AVETH-Co-Präsidenten im Interview:
ethz.ch/staffnet/de/...
Die AVETH-Co-Präsidenten im Interview:
ethz.ch/staffnet/de/...
«Kürzungen in der Wissenschaft treffen junge Studierende und Forschende direkt»
Am 1. Oktober 2025 versammeln sich Studierende und Forschende in Bern und Zürich zu Kundgebungen gegen die geplanten Kürzungen in Bildung, Forschung und Innovation. Lucie Kralickova und Arturo Winters...
ethz.ch
September 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Untergraben die vom Bundesrat geplanten Budget-Kürzungen im Bereich Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (BFI) den Wissensstandort Schweiz, der bisher Talente aus aller Welt angezogen hat und exzellente Forschung zu betreiben ermöglichte?
Die AVETH-Co-Präsidenten im Interview:
ethz.ch/staffnet/de/...
Die AVETH-Co-Präsidenten im Interview:
ethz.ch/staffnet/de/...
The Federal Council wants to cut costs in the ERI sector despite widespread objections. Cuts of over 10 percent per year are planned for the SNSF over the next few years. Above all, this plan jeopardises the innovation potential and competitiveness of the Swiss economy. ⤵️ www.snf.ch/en/9a7Fhnojt...
The SNSF urges against cuts
In its statement on "Relief Package 27", the SNSF speaks out against the proposed annual cuts of 10 percent.
www.snf.ch
September 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Federal Council wants to cut costs in the ERI sector despite widespread objections. Cuts of over 10 percent per year are planned for the SNSF over the next few years. Above all, this plan jeopardises the innovation potential and competitiveness of the Swiss economy. ⤵️ www.snf.ch/en/9a7Fhnojt...
📢 The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 270 million Swiss francs. The SNSF rejects these cuts. However, in order to be prepared, it has decided to cut costs in consultation with all partners.
➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1
#research #science #CHParl
➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1
#research #science #CHParl
Federal budget cuts: impact on the SNSF
The SNSF rejects the cuts but is preparing for them. Together with its partners, it has decided to cut costs across several funding schemes.
www.snf.ch
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“Scientific cooperation with Europe and continued access to the #HorizonEurope programme are essential to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of research and innovation,” emphasised Torsten Schwede, President of the SNSF Research Council, during a round table organised by Foraus. ➡️ buff.ly/BJEcZ7P
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“Scientific cooperation with Europe and continued access to the #HorizonEurope programme are essential to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of research and innovation,” emphasised Torsten Schwede, President of the SNSF Research Council, during a round table organised by Foraus. ➡️ buff.ly/BJEcZ7P
📣 QuantERA Call 2025
New opportunities for European projects. This call’s topics are #Quantum Phenomena and Resources and Applied Quantum Science.
Submission deadline: 5 December 2025
@quantera.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
➡️https://buff.ly/3VZ2QJm
New opportunities for European projects. This call’s topics are #Quantum Phenomena and Resources and Applied Quantum Science.
Submission deadline: 5 December 2025
@quantera.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
➡️https://buff.ly/3VZ2QJm
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📣 QuantERA Call 2025
New opportunities for European projects. This call’s topics are #Quantum Phenomena and Resources and Applied Quantum Science.
Submission deadline: 5 December 2025
@quantera.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
➡️https://buff.ly/3VZ2QJm
New opportunities for European projects. This call’s topics are #Quantum Phenomena and Resources and Applied Quantum Science.
Submission deadline: 5 December 2025
@quantera.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
➡️https://buff.ly/3VZ2QJm