The Federal Council approved the Message Education, Research and Innovation ERI 2008-2011 on January 24th, 2007. Bilateral science and technology cooperation program with priority countries has received for this time period a total budget of CHF 43 million dedicated to R&D. Of this amount, CHF 6.850 million were dedicated to bilateral scientific and technological cooperation with Russia. This budget was subsequently topped up with 450'000 CHF to support additional Joint Research Projects.

In February 2007, the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER), designated the University of Geneva as the Leading House (LH) and the EPFL as the Associated Leading House (ALH) for the implementation of the bilateral science and technology cooperation program with Russia.

The State Secretariat, acting on behalf of the Federal Council, has finalised the negotiations with the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. As a result, the bilateral Agreement on cooperation in the fields of science and technology was signed in December 2012. 

The structure of the bilateral program for the years 2013-2016 significantly changes. Further Joint Research Projects and ERA.Net-Rus Plus calls will be managed by the National Science Foundation (SNF). There will be no funding available for Exchange/Mobility projects.

The contents of this website will be fully restructured and updated in August 2013 and onwards.

 

Closed calls:

Exchange/Mobility projects:

Call for Faculty Exchange projects (FE):

Closed June 30, 2012.

Call for Students Exchange projects (SE) :

Closed June 30, 2012.

Call for Utilisation of Specific Infrastructure projects (USI) :

Closed June 30, 2012.

 

Grants of the Russian Ministry for Education and Science (MES) for students and PhD students to study abroad (Russian):

Call Announcement (Russian). Deadline for Russian students to submit their applications to the MES - 15th of April 2012.

 

FP7 Program - bilateral S&T cooperation 

FP7-Capacities-International Cooperation call

Closed on the 15th of November 2011. Submission to the FP7 office.

For information please contact your local Euresearch Office.

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_ERA.Net-RUS:

Call for Collaborative S&T projects (call closed on the 31st of May 2011)

Call for Innovation projects (call closed on the 15th of April 2011)

General Information on ERA.Net-RUS

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Research projects:

Joint Research Projects (JRP)

JRPs: No further call is planned until 2013.