Germaine de Staël
The application period is finished
The "Germaine de Staël" programme promotes collaboration between French and Swiss researchers and research teams by providing funding towards travel and accommodation expenses incurred by their team members as part of attending meetings or conferences. Funding of around CHF 4,500 per project per year is provided to Swiss participants.
Participation conditions
The Partenariat Hubert Curien/Germaine de Staël Funding is open to every public or private Swiss research institute (Higher education institutions, universities, research institutes, HES/FHS and companies). All the scientific fields are allowed.
Applications must be submitted in time and both in France (Campus France) and Switzerland to be considered!
Submissions are allowed in English or in French.
Selection criteria
- Scientific quality and relevance
- Scientific skills of the teams
- Available facilities to conduct the project
- Need of the collaboration
- Complementarity of the teams
- Mutual exchange of professional experiences
- Expected scientific (and industrial, if applicable) results
- Other European funding request (Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, COST)
- PhD students and young researchers involvement in the project
Handbook and deadlines
Submission's year 2022 | ||
February 1st | Opening of the application procedure for the funding | |
15 June (new date) | Deadline for the projects’ submission (form in English/French) | |
30 June (new date) | Deadline for the referees evaluations’ submissions | |
November | Publication on the website of the results by the selection committee | |
1st year | ||
26 September | Deadline for the mid-term report submission (maximum 2 pages, including the request to extend the funding for the second year) and for the first expenses submission (cf. form) | |
1 December | Deadline for the 2nd expenses submission (cf. form) | |
2nd year | ||
15 September | Deadline for the 3rd expenses submission (cf. form) | |
1 December | Deadline for the 4th expenses submission (cf. form) | |
Last year | ||
28 February | Deadline for the final report submission (maximum 3 pages) |