Scholarship / Financial aid: a total of CHF 16 million are available
Date: 2013–2016
Deadline: 31 August 2013
Open to: scientists from Eastern European countries
Announcement follows
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are launching a new phase of the programme “SCOPES - Scientific cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland”.
In the framework of SCOPES 2013–2016, there will be
a first call for proposals for Joint Research Projects (= JRP, open from 20 March to 20 September 2013) and
a second call for proposals for Institutional Partnerships (= IP, open from spring to autumn 2014).
Preparatory Grants (PG) can only be submitted during an open call in order to prepare a JRP /
IP. Applications for Valorisation Grants (VG) are usually submitted towards the end of a JRP /
IP. Applications for Conference Grants (CG) can be submitted throughout the entire duration of the programme.
Background
Together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the SNSF has been promoting co-operation with scientists from Eastern European countries and from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS) since 1990 by implementing a scientific cooperation programme in six consecutive phases. The commitment, which is part of a wider effort to strengthen economic, scientific and cultural ties between Switzerland and Eastern Europe and
NIS is now being renewed.
Compared with the former phases of SCOPES, the same funding instruments are offered in SCOPES 2013-2016. An overall budget of 16 million CHF will be available and a major emphasis has again been put on capacity development (young and female researchers).
Objectives
The pursuit of knowledge is an important feature of human societies as well as a prerequisite for their continued development. The numerous challenges that transition countries in Eastern European, the Western Balkans and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union are
confronted with, concern also the research and educational systems to a considerable degree.
The difficult situation of the individual and the institutional level endangers the achievements of the most important tasks of any science system: the production and exchange of knowledge for the benefit of today’s societies and the training of the next generation of qualified researchers. Therefore, the programme aims at improving the quality and increasing the networking level of scientific research.
SCOPES 2013-2016 must be seen in view of this general background. The programme aims at supporting individual researchers, research teams and research institutions from the target countries in their endeavour to overcome the difficulties of the transition period. From a Swiss
perspective, the programme offers the possibility to fund scientific collaborations and promote synergies with the target countries.
The programme focuses on the funding of research projects of high quality, on the improvement of institutional framework conditions that enable a further increase of the research performance, and on improved integration of individuals and institutions into the international and especially
in the European scientific community.
Funding instruments
The following types of funding instruments are offered:
Conference Grants
Joint Research Projects
Institutional Partnerships
Preparatory Grants
Valorisation Grants
Website: http://www.mladiinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SCOPES.pdf
Email: international@snf.ch
Date: 2013–2016
Deadline: 31 August 2013
Open to: scientists from Eastern European countries
Announcement follows
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are launching a new phase of the programme “SCOPES - Scientific cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland”.
In the framework of SCOPES 2013–2016, there will be
a first call for proposals for Joint Research Projects (= JRP, open from 20 March to 20 September 2013) and
a second call for proposals for Institutional Partnerships (= IP, open from spring to autumn 2014).
Preparatory Grants (PG) can only be submitted during an open call in order to prepare a JRP /
IP. Applications for Valorisation Grants (VG) are usually submitted towards the end of a JRP /
IP. Applications for Conference Grants (CG) can be submitted throughout the entire duration of the programme.
Background
Together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the SNSF has been promoting co-operation with scientists from Eastern European countries and from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS) since 1990 by implementing a scientific cooperation programme in six consecutive phases. The commitment, which is part of a wider effort to strengthen economic, scientific and cultural ties between Switzerland and Eastern Europe and
NIS is now being renewed.
Compared with the former phases of SCOPES, the same funding instruments are offered in SCOPES 2013-2016. An overall budget of 16 million CHF will be available and a major emphasis has again been put on capacity development (young and female researchers).
Objectives
The pursuit of knowledge is an important feature of human societies as well as a prerequisite for their continued development. The numerous challenges that transition countries in Eastern European, the Western Balkans and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union are
confronted with, concern also the research and educational systems to a considerable degree.
The difficult situation of the individual and the institutional level endangers the achievements of the most important tasks of any science system: the production and exchange of knowledge for the benefit of today’s societies and the training of the next generation of qualified researchers. Therefore, the programme aims at improving the quality and increasing the networking level of scientific research.
SCOPES 2013-2016 must be seen in view of this general background. The programme aims at supporting individual researchers, research teams and research institutions from the target countries in their endeavour to overcome the difficulties of the transition period. From a Swiss
perspective, the programme offers the possibility to fund scientific collaborations and promote synergies with the target countries.
The programme focuses on the funding of research projects of high quality, on the improvement of institutional framework conditions that enable a further increase of the research performance, and on improved integration of individuals and institutions into the international and especially
in the European scientific community.
Funding instruments
The following types of funding instruments are offered:
Conference Grants
Joint Research Projects
Institutional Partnerships
Preparatory Grants
Valorisation Grants
Website: http://www.mladiinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SCOPES.pdf
Email: international@snf.ch
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