Form – First round – Submit SNIS

Call for Projects - First round Submission 2025

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Project code

Use of application data*

By continuing this submission you agree that your submission data will be used solely for the purpose of the SNIS Call for Projects. It will not be made available for third parties. The SNIS reserves the right to use application data to carry out internal research to optimize the funding procedure.

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Please note that we only accept submissions in English.

I hereby acknowledge and accept that submissions not made in English will be automatically disqualified*

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I hereby acknowledge and accept that projects run for 24 months (2 years)*

Yes

Project basics

Project title*

Financial information

Swiss institution managing your fund*

Requested amount*

Maximum: 300,000.00 CHF

Please enter a number from 100000.00 to 300000.00.

Estimation of co-financing*

Monetary and non-monetary contributions to the overall project coming from other sources. It must amount to at least 25% of requested funds and shall not exceed 100% of requested funds.

Please enter a number greater than or equal to 25000.00.

Project coordinator

Title coordinator*

First name coordinator*

Last name coordinator*

E-mail of project coordinator*

Phone number coordinator*

Website

Biography Coordinator*

Very short biography. 500 characters maximum (including spaces).

Bibliography Coordinator*

Please provide a selective list of the project coordinator's publications (maximum 10).

Project team members

Team Members*

Please add ALL team members INCLUDING the coordinator. The coordinator has to be added again so as to have a complete overview of the team. The team must contain a co-coordinator. Other roles are 'Principal Members' (receive SNIS funding) and 'Associated Members' (Do not receive SNIS funding).

All team members mentioned in the form must have been personally contacted and must have given their consent for participation in the project.

If you plan to hire a member but don't have all the information yet, please enter N/N where the information is not available.

For each member, please include the following information : Project role - Title - Fullname - Position - Institution - Department - Email

Relevant publications authored or co-authored by team members.*

Please provide a selective list of the publications.

Substantial eligibility criteria

International studies

To qualify as international studies, project proposals must demonstrate that the issue(s) investigated:
- Are relevant to the international agenda;
- Require international cooperation to produce policy-relevant outputs.
- Involve the cooperation with - or the study of - International Organisations (IOs) and/or Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and/or private sector actors.

ATTENTION: Projects in which there is only an international collaboration between researchers from different countries are not qualified as ‘international studies

Please highlight what makes your project qualify as "International Studies"*

Maximum 750 characters (including spaces).

Potential collaboration with IO's*

Please use an English acronym when you're reffering to a well known IO, otherwise use the full name.
Separate your potential collaborators with commas (e.g. UNHCR, UNESCO).

Potential collaboration with NGO's, States or other institutions (incl. private sector)*

Please use an English acronym when you're refering to a well known institution, otherwise use the full name.
Separate your potential collaborators with commas

Please explain how IOs / NGOs / private sector are integrated in your project*

Maximum 750 characters (including spaces).

Pluri-disciplinarity

To meet the criterion of pluri-disciplinarity, project proposals need to demonstrate that:
- The research question benefits from a pluri-disciplinary approach;
- The research design is genuinely pluri-disciplinary;
- The team is composed of experts from different academic backgrounds (it does not suffice that one person claims proficiency in many disciplines).
- Inter-academic research collaborations are diverse (involvement of researchers from other Swiss universities and/or involvement of researchers from abroad and/or involvement of PhD students / post -docs)

Disciplines of your project*

Please add the disciplines of your project.

Please highlight what makes your project qualify as "pluri-disciplinary"*

Maximum 750 characters (including spaces).

Collaboration with Swiss Universities / Swiss academic institutions*

The list of qualifying institutions can be found at: https://bit.ly/3CTFgmT
Separate your collaborators with commas.

Potential collaboration with Universities / academic institutions from abroad*

Please use the full names of the institutions.
Separate your collaborators with commas.

PhD students are involved in the project*

Post-docs are involved in the project*

Local partners / local researchers are involved in the project (for case / field studies)*

Formal eligibility criteria

Formal eligibility criteria are checked by the SNIS secretariat. Projects that fail to meet the formal eligibility criteria are notified shortly after the deadline of the pre-proposals and will not enter the call. Before proceeding please make sure to check the list at: https://bit.ly/3CTFgmT

The project has a co-coordinator*

Project's coordinator and co-coordinator are faculty members (professor, assistant professor, post-doc, researcher) employed by a qualifying institution.*

The list of qualifying institutions can be found at: https://bit.ly/3CTFgmT

During the project duration, the coordinator is employed by the hosting institution for work unrelated to the project with a contract of at least 40% FTE*

The coordinator is a faculty member with a full-time contract at the hosting institution*

Is the co-coordinator employed by the same hosting institution as the coordinator with a contract of at least a 40% FTE not related to the project?*

I guarantee that the coordinator of a project is not working on another on-going SNIS funded project at the time of submission*

On-going means that the accounts of a project have not been fully closed on the day of the first-round submission deadline.

Project

Project theme

If your project is based on this year's Special Theme ('Leveraging Emerging Technologies in an Era of Disruption and Growing Inequality')? Explain in what way it is relevant to it.

Maximum 750 characters (including spaces).

The quality of the academic originality and rigour (of the proposal) is evaluated according to:
- The adequacy of the literature review and its inclusion of recent publications;
- The clear identification of a research gap;
- The originality and clarity of the research questions / hypotheses;
- The adequacy and completeness of the proposed research methods;
- The adequacy and quality of the team members;
- The adequacy between the research venture and the time / funding available;
- The clarity of the research plan.

Project abstract

Abstract / Summary*

Short version of project description. Maximum 2000 characters (including spaces).

Project description (full)

Project description*

Please provide a description of the project (maximum 10'000 characters including the bibliography). This description must include the research question and its importance from a theoretical, empirical, and policy viewpoint, a description of the methods to be used, research tasks, milestones expected or potential results and their relevance.

*Our system allows a maximum of 12'000 characters (spaces included) because of varying formatting options in which it will count characters differently.

Output and Dissemination

The quality of the projected output and dissemination (of the proposal) is evaluated according to:
- The ambition of the projected academic output;
- The post-project data-sharing strategy;
- The adequacy and depth of the projected dissemination / impact strategy;
- The projected reach of the dissemination efforts;

Please explain the projected outputs and precise your strategies for the dissemination of the results*

Maximum 750 characters (including spaces).

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One-minute video pitch

You can provide the jury with a one-minute video pitch of your project. This film will be shown after the written proposal has formally been evaluated to kick-start the deliberations. Plese specify here if you intend to provide such a video no later than 31. January 2023.

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I intend to provide a one-minute video pitch of my project by 31st January 2023.

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Please indicate how to intend to share your video. You can either choose 'send file' and we'll get in touch to tell how to best do this or you can opt to publish the video on a video sharing platform of your choice and then just sending us the link.

I'll publish the video online myself

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About

Call for Projects - First round Submission 2025

Project basics

Financial information

Project coordinator

Project team members

Substantial eligibility criteria

International studies

Pluri-disciplinarity

Formal eligibility criteria

Project

Project theme

Project abstract

Project description (full)

Output and Dissemination

One-minute video pitch

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