2022 Call for Opportunity Grants
The 2022 Call for Opportunity Grants for projects with partners in East and Southeast Asia is now closed.
Grant sum: max. 50 kCHF
Project duration: up to 12 months
Eligible partners: located in China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN member states. Partners located in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are also eligible.
Goals and objectives
The opportunity grants support bottom-up initiatives of researchers from Swiss universities, universities of applied sciences, universities of teacher education, and public research institutes, linked to specific events or incidents in East and Southeast Asia.
These research-based initiatives aim at increasing the visibility of Swiss science, technology and innovation abroad.
Events or incidents eligible for Opportunity Grants can be:
- Large public happenings such as the Olympic Games, international or national exhibitions/biennales.
- Major environmental events such as the implications of a typhoon, earthquake or tsunami.
- Major economic and political developments such as the possible geopolitical implications of a presidential visit or a shift of power in a government.
- Launch of a new public policy such as new impactful agriculture or migration policies.
Eligibility
The call is open to all scientific disciplines and fields of research, including social sciences and the humanities.
Postdoctoral scientists, senior scientists and professors of Swiss federal and cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences, universities of teacher education, as well as public research institutes, are eligible to apply. The main applicant must be employed at one of the aforementioned Swiss institutions. Researchers of all nationalities are eligible to apply as main applicant.
A single Switzerland-based scientist or a consortium of Switzerland-based scientists from different institutions can act as the main applicant. In the latter case, one of the members of the consortium must act as the main applicant.
The partner applicant has to be a senior academic researcher affiliated with a university of a public institute of the partner country. Asian researchers interested in acting as co-applicants on the Asian side have to contact their Switzerland-based peers.
Timeline
Call launch: 17 May 2022
Application deadline: 31 July 2022
Review process: August-September 2022
Decision: mid-September 2022
Earliest project start: November 2022
Project duration: up to 12 months
The call is now closed.