A SNSF-ERC grant to Andrea Ablasser
© 2014 EPFL
Congratulations to Prof. Ablasser who was among the four EPFL researchers getting, recently, an SNSF Starting Grants. 145 Researchers submitted their SNSF Starting Grants project proposals in March 2014. This transitional measure of the SNSF offered the Swiss research community an adequate substitute for ERC grants.
The SNSF-Swiss National Science Foondation set up Temporary Backup Schemes (TBS) in March 2014. They enabled excellent researchers working or planning to work at Swiss research institutions to apply to the SNSF for grants comparable to the frontier research grants of the ERC. This became necessary due to Switzerland’s exclusion from the Horizon 2020 programme - including the ERC schemes - from the end of February to mid-September 2014. When setting up the SNSF Starting Grants (StG) and the SNSF Consolidator Grants (CoG), the SNSF strove to define submission and evaluation procedures that are as close as possible to the ERC’s.