Seed Money 2013 - Submit your project from now on!
Through the Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV), EPFL aims to promote and strengthen scientific cooperation for development between researchers at EPFL and EPFL partner institutions in emerging and developing countries.
CODEV provides annual grants to support projects with a strong commitment to development cooperation. These grants are awarded on a competitive basis.
Objectives of the Seed Money programme
- Enable and foster the establishment of collaborative EPFL research projects with partners from emerging or developing countries which have a prospect of tapping new resources of funding from third parties in the medium term.
- Support the valorization of existing projects (publications, conferences, workshops, ….)
Research themes
Free, but should address key problems that emerging and developing countries are faced with
Who can submit a project
Researchers from all disciplines and scientific units of EPFL, in partnership with an academic institution of the South
Conditions of participation
Proposals can be sent from now on, must be written in English or French and according to the indications mentioned in the form that can be downloaded on our Website or directly from this page (see top of the page on the right)
All information on the rules of participation can be found on CODEV Website. For more informationm, contact Magali Schmid
Deadline for submission: December 21, 2012
Information on the the outcome of the selection: beginning of February 2013