Special COVID-19 Call for Projects Grants with Asia
The Leading House Asia, ETH Zurich launched a Special COVID-19 Call for Projects Grants in order to support the collective effort to better understand the virus as well as its numerous implications, and prepare for society's future. The call is now closed.
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Deadline: 30 August 2020
Grant sum: max. 25 kCHF
Project duration: up to 12 months
Eligible partners: located in China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN member states (incl. Singapore). Partners located in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are also eligible.
The Leading House Asia, ETH Zurich has decided to launch a special COVID-19 call for project grants in order to support the collective effort to better understand the virus as well as its numerous implications, and prepare for society’s future.
The current Special COVID-19 Call for Project Grants awards project funding for research questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current call comprises all scientific fields and is not limited to epidemiological or medical studies. However, the research projects have to be collaborative projects between researchers based in Switzerland and Asia.
Goal and objectives
The current special COVID-19 call is aimed at both new and existing collaborations between Switzerland, East and Southeast Asia. The goal of the grant call is to allow Switzerland-based researchers and their partners in Asia to collaborate on a research project on the COVID-19 virus itself, or on any of its implications. The wide scope is meant to comprise as many research fields as possible, and to foster an impactful project as well as a long-term partnership.
Eligibility
The call is open to all scientific disciplines and fields of research. The Leading House Asia strongly encourages research project proposals in social sciences and humanities.
All senior scientists of Swiss federal and cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education, as well as public research institutions, are eligible to apply. Research partners must be scientists affiliated with a university or a public research institute from one of the partner countries. For further details, please read the call guidelines available below.
The call is now closed.
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