Integration of Sinergia grants into Project Funding from July 2023

The SNSF’s National Research Council has now decided on the following key changes:

• Integration of Sinergia: The deadline for researchers to submit a Sinergia application for the last time was 17 April 2023.
• Evaluation: Interdisciplinary projects will be assessed by a separate evaluation panel so that their specifics can be best taken into account.
• Concurrent funding: Researchers can now receive up to three grants from project funding for the same funding period. Three grants are possible when at least one of these is approved for a Lead Agency/Weave, International Co-Investigator Scheme or EU Consortium project. The topics addressed by the proposed research projects must differ clearly from one another.
• Amount of funding for a project: The SNSF will now provide a maximum of 250,000 CHF annually per applicant of a project and a maximum of 1 million CHF annually for the project as a whole. The applicants can then decide on how to divide up the funding. The maximum project length is four years, resulting in maximum potential funding of 4 million CHF.
• Applicants outside of Switzerland: In collaborative projects with three or more applicants, one applicant can be employed by a research institution outside of Switzerland if their skills are necessary for the project.
• Coordination costs: If three or more applicants are involved, they can charge the coordination costs for the proposed research project through the SNSF funding.

Next call opens in July 2023: The next project funding call opens at the start of July 2023, with a submission deadline of 2 October 2023. The SNSF will publish information on the call for proposals at the beginning of July.

New submission portal: The SNSF is progressively replacing the mySNF online platform with the new SNSF Portal. As of July 2023, for the first time, researchers will submit their applications via the SNSF portal. For additional guidance regarding the use of the portal, please refer to the EPFL Guide for the SNSF Sinergia Submission Portal.

For more information about the integration of the two funding programmes, please visit the SNSF News, Sinergia and Project Funding websites or contact the EPFL Research Office at [email protected].