SNSF Advanced call 2021

Research and Transfer Service

4 October 2021

The SNSF Advanced call has been introduced to compensate for the exclusion from the ERC Advanced Grant call 2021. This call is aimed at established researchers with an outstanding track-record over the last 10 years. It is open to researchers of any nationality from any discipline and topic.

Advanced grants fund bottom-up, high-risk/high-gain projects conducted in Switzerland.

Duration: max. 5 years

Budget: max. 2.5 mio CHF. Budget covers applicant’s salary, personnel costs, equipment and travel costs, consummables, and overhead of 15%.

Application and evalution

The application consists of

  • Extended synopsis
  • Research plan
  • CV and track record
  • Resources
  • Host institution commitment letter (to be prepared by SRIT)
  • Online data to be inserted in mySNF

The evaluation is done in 2 steps. In the first phase, only the extended synopsis, the CV and track record are taken into account. The second step of the evaluation considers all documents, and includes an interview with the candidate as well.

Deadline and pre-registration

The SNSF Swiss AdG and closes on 1 December 2021. The application has to be done online through mySNF.

Pre-registration: applicants need to pre-register by 1 November on mySNF and provide:

  • Summary of application, host institution, disciplines + keywords.

For more information, don’t hesitate to contact Ms. Martina Pestoni and visit the dedicated SNSF page.