Interdisciplinary research initiatives
Call for Joint Initiatives 2023
At its meeting in December 2022, the ETH Board decided to launch a new call for Joint Initiatives in September 2023 in the Strategic Areas of Human Health, Responsible Digital Transformation and Advanced Materials and Key Technologies.
This call will provide opportunities to initiate new collaborations within the targeted Strategic Areas between ETH Domain institutions and also with external partners as appropriate.
Selected Consortia are currently invited to hand in documents.
Important Dates:
- Steering Committee for selection of pre-proposals: 18 October 2023
- Pre-proposal submission deadline: 13 December 2023
- Information of applicants invited to submit a full proposal: 05 February 2024
- Full proposal submission deadline: 24 March 2024
- Information of successful applicants: 15 July 2024
- Submission of the Implementation Plans: End of September 2024
- Approval of Implementation Plans and earliest start: October 2024
- First transfer of approved ETH Board matching funds: January 2025
Further details can be found external pagehere.
Your contact at ETH Zurich is Dr. Friederike Saathoff ().
Exchange and collaboration are vital for new insights and creativity in research. This is why ETH Zurich hosts numerous interdisciplinary programmes and initiatives. For instance, ETH's Competence Centres are self-organised networks that are supported by the university's Executive Board.
The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) are research programmes that run over several years and are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, ETH Zurich, and partnering universities.
In addition, there are a large number of interdisciplinary research initiatives at ETH Zurich, some of which are run with other universities or additional partners.