Office of Research

We take care of research collaborations that cut across fields and departments, e.g. of scientific networks such as ETH Zurich's Competence Centres or national funding programmes such as NCCR. We are also responsible for ETH's Technology Platforms and the Scientific Equipment Program.   

An important focus currently is on medical research and innovation, where we promote collaboration within ETH as well as with external pageUniversity Medicine Zurichcall_made. We also serve as the interface to numerous other centres and initiatives such as the Singapore-ETH Centre.
 

Research has its own ethics, which aims, for instance, at protecting study participants or laboratory animals and at safeguarding their dignity. We coordinate the ETH Zurich Ethics Commission and offer comprehensive advice on the reduction and avoidance of animal experiments (3R Principles).

We also support researchers in living up to ETH's Integrity Guidelines. In the same context we coordinate the GSP Commission and collaborate closely with the Trusted Intermediaries.

Last but not least, we are interested in the societal impact of research. We provide advice and foster dialogues about ethical questions, e.g. via the ETHics Lunch.
 

We are in charge of ETH's internal funding programmes, counselling about national funding, and promoting young researchers.  

We are also responsible for research prizes and special funds in the Domain VPR, coordinate the collaboration on open science within ETH, and form an interface to the external pageETH Foundationcall_made. We support the Research Commission and the Prize Commission. The periodical evaluations of ETH's departments are with the Grants Office, too.  

You can find more information on research funding on our webpages. We are happy to answer more in-depth questions - just contact us.

We provide comprehensive support for international funding schemes to researchers at ETH Zurich and UZH and specialise on EU funding. We organise events, offer funding counselling, help with proposal writing and submission, and can even support you with project management. 

Besides, we also do political work in order to ensure Switzerland's participation in European programmes. We are a part of the external pageEuresearch networkcall_made as well as of external pageEURAXESS Switzerlandcall_made.