AcademiaNet to be shut down as of September 2025 – transfer to Bosch Alumni Network

Between 2020 and 2024, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) managed AcademiaNet, a platform designed to highlight accomplished female researchers. During this time, the SNSF contributed to expanding the scope of the platform: more partners became involved, and the number of researchers registered on the site rose to over 4,000. At the same time, the SNSF aimed to define a sustainable financial model for the platform as well as to identify a long-term host.

In 2024, the SNSF commissioned a report to analyse the state of the AcademiaNet platform, to probe how its partners envisioned its future and to assess potential alternatives. The report highlighted various challenges, particularly the financial shortcomings of the existing model. Consequently – in agreement with the Robert Bosch Stiftung and after discussing the report’s conclusions with our other partners – the SNSF has decided to shut down AcademiaNet as of September 2025.

All researchers featured on AcademiaNet are invited to join the Bosch Alumni Network. Researchers who choose to do so will have the opportunity to benefit from this international network.

We hope that the values and objectives of AcademiaNet will live on in the Bosch Alumni Network.