Grants in Switzerland

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Funds projects that build new EOSC nodes — thematic or regional entry points into Europe's federated open-science cloud.

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Pays one coordination team to run the EU-wide policy forum that gets governments, regulators and industry to agree on which animal-testing-alternative methods are ready for official use.

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Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

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Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

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Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

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Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.

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Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

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Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.

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Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.

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Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.

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Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.

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Funds one project to build the infrastructure, training and digital tools needed to run same-day orthopaedic and cardiology surgical centres in Europe.

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Pays a EUR 90 million lump sum to a consortium of national and regional research-funding bodies, which then runs its own joint annual calls handing out grants of up to EUR 2 million to individual raw-materials projects.

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Funds development of new digital-twin-of-the-ocean applications, using AI and real-time data, for ocean policy, business or management use cases across multiple sea basins.

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Funds a framework to measure how the EU's demand for food, feed, fibre and biomass imports degrades soil health outside Europe, especially in Latin America and Africa.

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Funds EU-India research into how multiple pollutants combine to harm marine life and ecosystems.

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Funds a coordination and support action to build structured EU-India cooperation on 6G research, connecting European and Indian industry, standards bodies and research programmes.

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Funds PIANOFORTE’s 2026-27 continuation, an EU radiation-safety research partnership — only for its current members and any partner who joins them.

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Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.

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Funds a complete tunable 6G radio front-end module for 7–15 GHz, combining European microelectronics with low-energy operation.

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Awards public and private buyers up to EUR 75,000 for procurement practices and strategies that drive innovation uptake across the EU.

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Pays one project up to EUR 5 million to build a digital atlas ranking Europe's potential CO2 storage sites for investors, in support of the EU's 2030 storage target.

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Funds the coordination of up to ten existing advanced-therapy research centres into one European network, with a shared roadmap for scaling up gene and cell therapy manufacturing.

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Co-funds a new European research partnership on forests and forestry, which then re-grants money to research projects through its own joint calls.