Further Funding Opportunities
“Foster. Lead. Promote.” programme
Who can apply?
Female doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and other young female scientists working at an institution in the ETH domain. The programme serves the development of academic careers and is not tied to research projects.
Programme details, registration and important dates
The programme includes courses in the areas of leadership, career development and soft skills, as well as coaching and mentoring. Further information and registration details can be found at external page Foster. Lead. Promote.
Open Calls:
Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) - National Calls for Projects
The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) is launching its first national calls for collaborative projects starting in 2025. The call procedure enables SDSC to identify and engage in impactful projects and collaborations, and is a vital instrument to allocate its resources in a fair manner. Calls for collaborative projects are announced on a national level and focus on the following areas:
- The 2024 Call for Collaborative Research Data Science Projects will offer to contribute in-kind expertise in statistical data science, machine learning and AI to research projects in different application domains.
- The 2024 Call for End-User Innovation Projects aims to ensure that novelty developed in an academic or research context achieves its full potential in end-user contexts, serving a community or society at large, e.g. public institutions, industrial and/or economic stakeholders.
- The 2024 Call for Collaborative Open Research Data (ORD) Infrastructure Projects aims to advance the Swiss National ORD Strategy by fostering collaborative development of sustainable and reusable data and software infrastructure that empowers open research practices.
The deadline for pre-proposals is on 15 July 2025.
Further information, documents and the timeline can be found on the external page SDSC website.
Fifth Call for Humanitarian Action Challenges Grants
The Humanitarian Action Challenges (HAC) grant is offered by the external page Engineering for Humanitarian Action (EHA) initiative to support project-based research for a greater impact of humanitarian action. This call for applications is open to teams consisting of a researcher from external page ETH Zürich or external page EPFL, as well as a practitioner from the external page International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC or another humanitarian organisation.
Collaboration with additional partners from ETH domain or other humanitarian organizations is encouraged. Projects of 6 - 24 months can secure CHF 50,000 - CHF 300,000 in funding. A minimum of 25% as matching funds is required. Applications can be submitted from 14.10.2024 – 27.02.2025. Find all details here.
MedLab Fellowships
The ETH Zurich MedLab Fellowship program (MedLab Fellows) supports incoming medical doctors at ETH Zurich. The program is intended to foster young researchers who have already demonstrated scientific excellence in the early stages of their careers. Applications have to be made jointly by the candidate and the potential host, who must be an ETH Zurich professor and willing to act as the mentor of the fellow. The duration of an ETH MedLab Fellowship is one year full-time to a maximum of three years part-time. The fellowship is competitive with only a limited number of fellowships available each year. Deadline for the next call is 01 March 2025. Further information can be found on the MedLab Fellowships website.
Opportunity finders (for ETH researchers)
Research Professional
There are more options for funding than you might think. Projects, fellowships, travels, equipment - you name it. Check out external page Research Professional, a comprehensive database of funding schemes that is freely accessible to ETH researchers (on campus or via VPN).
Research+
The central platform of external page research.swiss aims to facilitate collaboration in research and innovation by providing researchers, higher education institutions and innovators with a unique overview of the most important funding instruments, calls for joint research projects and mobility programmes.
Foundations
Check the external page directory of foundations