Korean-Swiss Science and Technology Programme

Call 2025

The following topics are addressed in the call: 

• Quantum computing/simulation 
• Quantum communications and networks 
• Quantum sensing/measurement 
• Fundamentals of quantum information science and technology 
• Quantum ethics 

Around ten projects with a duration of four years can be financed. The maximum budget for the Swiss side is 800,000 francs per project.

Call 2022/2023

The call is open to following topics:

• Climate change (interdisciplinary topic, SSH parts are possible)
• Digital health (interdisciplinary topic, SSH parts are possible)
• Systems biology

The call for proposals is open from 15 November 2022 to 15 February 2023.

The eligible applications are jointly evaluated by the SNSF and the NRF. All in all, a maximum of 12 projects will be funded. The SNSF will cover the costs for the Swiss part of the research and the NRF the costs in South Korea.

Call 2018/2019

The call concerned projects in the following area:

• Molecular physics
• Digital health (this is an interdisciplinary topic; a project part in Social Sciences and Humanities is possible)
• Advanced materials

The call for proposals was open from 17 December 2018 to 14 March 2019.

The 49 egligible applications were jointly evaluated by the SNSF and the NRF. All in all, 12 projects were approved for fiunding. The SNSF will cover the costs of CHF 4 million for the Swiss part of the research and the NRF the costs incurred in South Korea.

Call 2014/2015

The 30 submitted applications were jointly evaluated by the SNSF and South Korea’s NRF. All in all, 12 applications were approved; the projects to be funded are distributed as follows across the different topics of the call:

• Neuroscience: 5
• Molecular physics: 4
• Technologies and methodologies for big data science: 3

The SNSF will cover the costs of CHF 2.9 million for the Swiss part of the research and the NRF the costs incurred in South Korea.

• Call document 2024/2025 (PDF)
• Call document 2022/2023 (PDF)
• Call document 2018/2019 (PDF)
• Call document 2014/2015 (PDF)
• Guidelines for lifetime management (PDF)
• KSSTP: List of funded projects 2018/2019 (PDF)
• KSSTP: list of funded projects (PDF)
• Explication obligations (PDF)
• Template for scientific report (DOC) (Word)
• Documents & downloads
• KSSTP: List of funded projects 2018/2019 (PDF)

• Mobility grants in projects
• Flexibility Grant
• Media training
• Gender equality grant (only for staff members employed in Switzerland)