February 2017

NEWSLETTER - Research Services

HIGHLIGHT

H2020 Reloaded

Strategies and tools to boost scientific and industrial innovation in the Geneva area.
With the full association of Switzerland to the framework programme H2020, Research Services organises an event to update and promote the innovation aspects inherent to the programme.
What are the challenges and opportunities for the scientific and innovative industrial sector of the Geneva area? Which strategies are to be considered? Which are the European funding schemes to be targeted by scientists and SME to maximize their chances of success?

The morning session will address strategic aspects of research and innovation for the scientific and local industrial landscape; the afternoon programme will be dedicated to funding schemes for SME only.

Guest speakers include : Wolfgang Burtscher (European Commission), Daniel Loeffler (SPEG), Direction de SwissCore Bruxelles, Denis Hochstrasser (UNIGE Rectorate), Laure Ognois-Zaugg (UNIGE Research Services), Emile Dupont (Euresearch Head Office), Eva Servoli (SME Contact Point Euresearch Genève, UNIGE Research Services),  Inès Rossetti (EEN Switzerland),  Inspiralia (Spain).

The event is for researchers and SME from the Geneva area. The attendance is free of charge but registration is compulsory.

April 7th 2017 - Campus Biotech
Registration for the information morning session
Registration for SME

RESEARCH SERVICES LATEST NEWS

H2020 : Associated !

Switzerland is fully associated to Horizon 2020 as of 1 January 2017, thus for the remaining four years of H2020 (2017-2020).
Projects for which the grant agreement has already been signed are not affected by the new full association. Funding for these projects is guaranteed from the same funding source for the entire duration of the project – State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) or European Commission (EC).
Proposals which are not yet submitted must take into account that they are funded by the EC with Switzerland being an Associated Country. This means that their budget must be requested from the EC ("EC requested funding" column should not be zero). This also affects the eligibility criteria for collaborative projects, where the minimum requirement of 3 partners from 3 different Member States or Associated Countries now includes Switzerland.
Proposals already submitted or evaluated but for which the contract is signed as of 1 January 2017 are treated as an Associated Country with full funding by the EC.

Reference information (SERI)
Updated List of Associated countries (EC)

Open4Research portal

The University of Geneva Open4Research portal is now available for you. It provides easy access to international funding opportunities for research and training activities in all disciplines. Registration through login details is required to freely access the platform.

CUS-P3 Programme

The final conference of the program "performances de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales" took place in Berne in November 2016 and was coordinated by Alexander Hasgall, scientific coordinator hosted at UNIGE since 2014.

Representatives of rectorates and researchers, the state Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, the Swiss National Science Foundation and other institutions discussed the results of the program and current challenges. In a podium moderated by the Director of the Research Services, Laure Ognois-Zaugg, the challenges posed by scientific research in the context of evaluation procedures were discussed separately.
The videos of the conference are available here

FNS

Directs costs due to the use of infrastructure will be taken into account for a test period in 2017 under certain conditions. More information here (in French).

SNSF supports researchers affected by travel ban

The US government's travel ban on citizens from 7 countries (Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria) also affects researchers supported by the SNSF.

Ensuring that all the affected researchers are able to continue their work is of great importance to the SNSF. It therefore asks all SNSF-funded researchers affected by the travel ban to contact the SNSF.
Information

Euresearch annual meeting of Regional Offices

On 30th and 31st January, responsible members of the Regional Offices and National Contact Points of EURESEARCH met for their first 2017 meeting at Campus Biotech. During these two days, three highly appreciated visits were organized in collaboration with the Research Service of the UNIGE : Campus Biotech Foundation, Human Brain Project and Wyss Center.

ICT / FET

Euresearch - University of Geneva hosted on January 24th an information & networking event for researchers and SME, where European funding opportunities in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) were presented.
The intervention of the National Contact Point (Euresearch) was followed by short talks where professors (UNIGE and HES-SO) and SME (SixSq – based in Meyrin, Geneva) active in these two European programmes shared their extensive experience with the public.
A round table involving all the speakers was followed by a Q&A session open to the whole audience.

Humanities and social sciences

The SNSF is extending its temporary measure to improve the participation rate of women from humanities and social sciences at the European level by one year.
Women researchers in the humanities and social sciences who were rejected in the second evaluation stage by the ERC will benefit from simplified submission conditions in SNSF project funding and career funding schemes in 2017. The proposal has to be submitted one year after rejection by the ERC at the latest.
Informations

COREC

The SNSF Geneva Research Commission (COREC) held an information session for candidates on an SNSF scholarship (Doc.CH, Doc.Mobility and Early Postdoc Mobility) on February 9th at Uni Mail.

Newsletter FNS
Newsletter SEFRI
Newsletter Euresearch

EVENTS

Research Infrastructures

An Information event is organised in Bern on 15 February 2017 on the Research Infrastructures in Europe. An update of the ESFRI roadmap 2018, national RI roadmap as well as funding opportunities in H2020 will be presented.

February 15th 2017 - Bern - Information and registration.

Horizon 2020: Associated!

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and Euresearch organise an information event on Horizon 2020, the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, to inform about the changes and new opportunities offered to Swiss participants.

Swiss National Conference: "Horizon 2020: Associated!"
March 14th 2017 - Kursaal Berne - Information and resgistration

H2020 MSCA

Workshop for the applicants Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) for individual fellowships. The workshop is targets post-doctoral fellows interested  to apply to the next Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship call in September 2017.

UNIGE - July 4th 2017
Programme and registration will be soon available under Research Services website.

More events

FNS
Euresearch

SUCCESS STORIES

Latsis Prize 2016

The National Latsis Prize 2016 rewards German historian Alexander Keese, one of the leading experts on decolonisation in Africa and SNSF Professor in the Department of History at the University of Geneva. The prize is conferred annually by the SNSF on behalf of the International Latsis Foundation.

H2020-MSCA-IF

6 projects with UNIGE participation have been selected for European funding under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA). FIs are individual fellowships at the post-doctoral level for experienced researchers wishing to develop their career prospects and gain experience abroad.

Faculty of Sciences : Dr. Giovanni Salassa - GOLDENSENS / Dr. Louise Couton - ENDODEP / Dr. Javier Lopez - ChalEnz / Dr. Jamir Marino - QUAKE4PRELIMAT / Dr. Claudia Simoes Avello - CRISTONE.

Faculty of Medicine: Dr. Alena Damborská - DEBRASA..

CALLS FOR PROJECTS - SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Competence Centers

Want to be involved in European e-Infrastructures in order to support data and computing intensive science?  

Submission deadline : February 16th 2017 (grants up to 600,000 Euros).
Informations

SNSF - Doc.Mobility fellowships

are designed for doctoral students wishing to enhance their scientific profile by working at a research institution abroad.
Submission deadline via mySNF : March 1st 2017

SNSF - Postdoc.Mobility fellowships

are designed for postdocs at the beginning of their career who wish to enhance their scientific profile by working at a research institution abroad.
Submission deadline via mySNF : March 1st 2017

SNSF - Doc.CH (HSS)

is aimed at promising researchers who wish to write a doctoral thesis on a topic of their own choice in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland.
Submission deadline via mySNF : March 10th 2017

Leenaards Price in translational medicine

The Leenards Foundation is supporting research projects investigating clinical issues using an innovative approach. Selected projects have a link to the lemanic region and reinforce cooperation between clinical and basic research.
Submission deadline : March 10th 2017 - Informations

SNSF – BRIDGE – Proof of concept

The aim of the funding opportunity is to support young researchers (bachelor's degree and higher) who want to translate their own research findings into an innovative application. Proof of Concept is open for innovations of any kind and researchers from all disciplines.
Submission deadline via mySNF : March 13th 2017

SNSF

Under the project funding scheme, qualified researchers define their research themes and objectives themselves and conduct their project under their own responsibility.

Submission deadline via mySNF : April 3rd 2017

H2020-MSCA – RISE

The RISE scheme promotes international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa).
Submission deadline : April 5th 2017
Informations

Novartis FoundationFreeNovation

FreeNovation provides funding opportunities for innovative, substantial-risk
projects that have the potential to open up novel research directions and aim beyond incremental innovation and discovery. 
Submission deadline : April 15th 2017
Informations

SNSF - R'Equip

is aimed at researchers in Switzerland who need top-quality, innovative equipment for their research work. The SNSF awards grants for the acquisition and development of large-scale apparatuses in all areas of science.
Délai de soumission via mySNF : May 15th 2017

SNSF - Sinergia

promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration of two to four research groups that propose breakthrough research.
Submission deadline via mySNF : June 1st 2017

H2020-ERC Synergy Grants

The ERC Scientific Council has decided to reinstate the "Synergy Grant" funding scheme in 2018. The objective of the scheme is to enable a small group of 2 to 4 principal investigators and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge and resources in new ways.

LERU Summer School

The 2017 LERU Summer School for PhD students is taking place at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on Citizen science – nexus between research and public engagement
Zurich - July 9th to 14th 2017.
Information

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CONTACT

Dr Laure Ognois-Zaugg,
Director Research services

Dr Alex Waehry,
Head European and international research support - Euresearch

Dr Caroline Loutre,
Head National and regional research support

Marie-Anne Berazategui,
Head Secretariat SNSF Research commission at UNIGE

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