Weave: the multilateral agreement that enables collaborative projects
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The SNSF and European research funders have signed a multilateral agreement to further simplify the submission of collaborative proposals.
Weave was developed by European funders to support excellent research projects. It simplifies the submission of joint applications by centralising evaluation at a single agency.
Weave follows the bottom-up principle and is embedded in an existing funding scheme of the participating agencies. The rules of the relevant funding scheme apply, there are no additional conditions.
With Weave, researchers from two to three European countries or regions can submit a collaborative project proposal to a funding organisation. Each applicant must be eligible for funding at one of the national organisations involved.
Swiss researchers will need to use either the Weave or the Lead Agency scheme, depending on the country where their research partners are based.
Multilateral Weave agreements with:
Bilateral Lead Agency Agreements with:
Researchers submitting to the SNSF will need to meet the SNSF deadlines of 1 April and 1 October, the others the deadlines announced by the agency abroad. Moreover, trilateral projects are also possible now. To ensure a level playing field, the agencies participating in Weave are all striving to achieve a success rate of 20 per cent.
Weave agreement are embedded in the SNSF's project funding scheme. There is no additional budget and the usual project funding requirements apply.
Who can apply:
- Weave agreement are embedded in the SNSF's project funding scheme. There is no additional budget and the usual project funding requirements apply.
- Swiss-based applicants: natural persons employed at a Swiss university, a Swiss university of applied sciences or an institution of the ETH Domain. They must be eligible for SNSF Project Funding (ref. EPFL Instructions for SNSF Project Funding).
- Weave applications can be submitted to the SNSF by the usual project funding deadlines, 1 April and 1 October. Applicants cannot simultaneously submit any further project funding applications.
- The applicants need to meet the participation requirements and eligibility criteria defined by their funder.
- For administrative reasons, Weave applications need to be submitted simultaneously to all the funders involved. The applicants based abroad are considered as co-applicants in MySNF.
- Trilateral projects with France, Sao Paulo, South Africa and South Tyrol (Lead Agency process) are not possible.
For further information, please have a look at the SNSF call webpage, the Weave tool that shows the possible project combinations and the upcoming submission deadlines, and the Weave webpage.
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