Grants Office
The Grants Office ensures that the University of Basel can exploit its full potential in obtaining competitive research funding.
We provide support and advice to all researchers and professors from the post-doc level onwards, who are searching for external Grant funding for their research projects.
Furthermore, the Euresearch Regional Office – Swiss guide to European research and innovation – is integrated in the Grants Office. Via this mandate we advise institutions and researchers outside the university, e.g., companies and start-ups, with regards to participation in the EU framework programmes.
Together we ensure that the University of Basel can exploit its full potential in obtaining competitive research funding.
News Flash: Switzerland’s Status in Horizon Europe
The European Commission has fully activated the transitional arrangements as of 1 January 2025. This enables researchers and innovators in Switzerland to participate as “beneficiaries” in almost all calls for proposals from Horizon Europe and the Euratom programme and in addition also the calls of the Digital Europe Programme. This means that, for Calls from the 2025 programme year, participants in Switzerland:
- can submit project proposals in the role of coordinator
- must prepare project proposals as a beneficiary and apply directly to the EU for funding (request EC contribution).
- must include their budget in the total amount of funding requested by the consortium from the EU.
This arrangement also includes ERC and MSCA calls. Currently excluded are calls in areas considered as strategically important by the EU (e.g. Quantum and Space), as well as Specific Objectives 3 (Cybersecurity) and 6 (Semiconductors) of Digital Europe. Further information can be found on State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation website. For an overview of the expected call for proposals please visit our Horizon Europe Calls webpage.
Please note that for calls from 2024, i.e. with 2024 in the Call/Topic Identifier, Swiss partners remain Associated Partners and funding is provided by SERI, even if the deadline for the call is in 2025.
For further information on the situation, please visit the Horizon Europe website of the SERI.
Should you have further questions please contact the Grants Office:
grants@unibas.ch, +41 61 207 60 53
