ETH4D Research to Action Grants
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The ETH4D Research to Action Grant aims to ensure that research results are being used, implemented, and disseminated. It supports ETH Zurich bachelor students, master students, doctoral candidates, post-docs, senior scientists, and professors to develop prototypes, explore opportunities for entrepreneurship and discuss their work with practitioners. The grant sum is up to 5 kCHF for students and postdocs and 20 kCHF for professors and senior scientists.
Main eligibility and application criteria:
Who: Bachelor students, master students, doctoral students, post-doctoral scientists, senior scientists, and professors are eligible to apply. Students must be enrolled at the time activities are carried out. Projects require a collaborating non-academic partner, based in the project’s country of focus and need a letter of support from the non-academic partner. Collaborations should follow the external pageKPFE Guide for Transboundary Research Partnershipscall_made.
What: Projects need to (i) have an institutional link to ETH Zurich e.g. previous research or courses taken at ETH or be connected with ETH initiatives and (ii) demonstrate global development-?related impact by bridging the gap between research and practice. Please note that the grant does not cover expenses in the past.
Where: Preference will be given to activities in countries listed as “least developed, low- and lower-middle-income country” according to the external pageDAC-list of the OECDcall_made. Applications with a focus area outside of the DAC-list should justify their selection.
- Project description and objectives (Downloadtemplate project description (DOCX, 16 KB)vertical_align_bottom)
- Letter of support from a non-academic partner or collaborator in the country of focus
- Detailed budget (Downloadtemplate budget (XLSX, 12 KB)vertical_align_bottom). The activities described in the project description should be accounted for in the budget. Please note that this grant does not cover expenses from the past.
- Financial confirmation letter by ETH professor or unit (more details in the criteria document)
- CV of the applicant, including publication list (max. 3 pages)
- One reference letter from within ETH
Please read the DownloadEligibility Criteria and Application Requirements (PDF, 157 KB)vertical_align_bottom before applying.
All documents must be uploaded in the electronic application form below.