Euresearch informs about and supports Swiss participation in European Research and Development Programmes mandated by the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) and facilitates Innovation partnerships in Europe mandated by the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET). We guide you finding the opportunities fitting your needs.
FP7 - the 7th Framework Programme
Funding European research projects
COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Funding European scientific cooperation
EEN - Enterprise Europe Network
Building European innovation and business cooperation
- by the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER)
- by the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET)
In its second Advanced Grant competition for established top researchers, the European Research Council (ERC) has selected 236 research leaders to perform their pioneering research throughout Europe.
The successful researchers are of 26 nationalities and will be working in 18 different countries. Switzerland hosts 29 grant winners and thus ranks fourth in the host countries statistics, after UK, France, and Germany. Already in the first Advanced Grant competition researchers in Switzerland were very successful and got 27 grants.
The success rate in Switzerland was 28%, whereas in all Europe it was in average 15%.
Read the ERC’s press release. The names of the grant winners can be found here. Interested in statistics? Then click here.
The ERC is a funding body within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7). In the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant scheme, projects for up to five years and with a budget of up to 3.5 Mio Euro can be submitted. The 3rd call for proposals is actually open.
Want to know more about the ERC? Have a look at our website or contact the ERC National Contact Point katja.wirth@euresearch.ch.