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Applications Invited for Project Grant for pluri-disciplinary teams working on international studies
Organization: Swiss Network for International Studies
Apply By: 22 Jan 2022
About the Organization
The SNIS promotes academic research in the interdisciplinary area of international studies with an interest in phenomena that transcend traditional nation-state boundaries.
It supports different perspectives by valuing contributions from a diverse group of academic researchers including political scientists, economists, legal scholars, social and cultural anthropologists, historians, sociologists, geographers, environmental and public health scientists, as well as other academics.
Thematic areas of interest include environment, development, health, human rights, and education, among others, as well as topics such as international and civil wars, sustainable development, public health, migration and refugees, gender issues, globalisation, trade and financial markets, human and cultural rights, and European politics.
About the Grant
The Call offers project grants for pluri-disciplinary teams working on international studies (see below). The SNIS supports pluri-disciplinary projects in the social sciences and pluri-disciplinary projects that combine natural and social sciences. The SNIS does not support pluri-disciplinary projects that only consist of natural sciences. The SNIS does not fund individual grants, i.e., career grants.
Projects must run for two years, and funding can range from 100’000 to 300’000 Swiss francs.
There are two thematic branches of the Call. but there is no quota for either branch, i.e., applicants have no statistical advantage when submitting to either branch:
- The general Call: in any area of International Studies as defined above;
- Theme 2022: defined by the SNIS International Geneva Committee: ‘The role of data in achieving the SDGs, in the context of a post-pandemic recovery’
The following questions (non-exhaustive list) might be addressed:
How do inequalities manifest themselves in the data landscape, and how can the use of data help to track and address inequalities that exist in different dimensions of sustainable development?
What data are lacking that would help address inequality in post-Covid recovery? How to find the balance between data collection and privacy to accelerate the achievement of SDGs?
How can data help address the biodiversity crisis?
How can the public and private sectors and individuals better benefit from each other’s’ data in view of advancing the SDGs?
Eligibility criteria
Substantial eligibility criteria
The SNIS discerns formal and substantial eligibility criteria.
The two substantial eligibility criteria for the admission to the Call are:
- The project proposal meets the criterion of at least pluri-disciplinary research;
- The project proposal meets the criterion of international studies.
Criteria to qualify as international studies
Project proposals must demonstrate that the issue(s) investigated:
- Are pluri-disciplinary;
- Are relevant to the international agenda;
- Require international cooperation to produce policy-relevant outputs.
Important : Projects in which there is only an international collaboration between researchers from different countries are not qualified as ‘international studies.’
Project proposals need to demonstrate that
- The research question benefits from a pluri-disciplinary approach;
- The research design is genuinely pluri-disciplinary;
- The team is composed of experts from different academic backgrounds (it does not suffice that one person claims proficiency in many disciplines).
The SNIS Secretariat checks the substantial eligibility criteria and earmarks projects that might not fulfill the two eligibility critera. The president of the SNIS Scientific Committee reviews all the earmarked projects and decides which proposals can enter the Call and which are rejected. Projects that fail to meet the substantial eligibility criteria are notified shortly after the deadline of the pre-proposals and will not enter the Call
Formal eligibility criteria
Formal eligibility criteria aim to guarantee the administrative solidity of SNIS funded projects and additionnaly ascertain that the projects contain co-funding.
The following formal eligibility criteria apply:
- Proposals must be submitted in English. Proposals that fail to meet this criterion will be automatically disqualified.
- A Swiss university or other Swiss institution of tertiary education or research acts as the hosting institution of the project. The list of qualifying institutions is available at http://bit.ly/2dCPA7p;
- The coordinator and co-coordinator submitting a project must both be faculty members (professor, assistant professor, post-doc, researcher) employed by a qualifying institution (see above);
- For the duration of the project, the coordinator needs to be employed by the hosting institution for work unrelated to the project with a contract of at least 40% full-time equivalent (FTE);
- Each project needs to have a co-coordinator;
- If the coordinator is a faculty member without a full-time contract at the hosting institution, the co-coordinator must be employed by the same hosting institution with a contract of at least a 40% FTE not related to the project;
- The coordinator of a project shall not be working on another ongoing SNIS funded project at the time of submission. On-going means that the accounts of a project are not closed on the day of the first-round submission deadline;
- Co-funding (in-kind and monetary contributions combined) must amount to at least 25% of requested funds and shall not exceed 100% of requested funds.
The SNIS Secretariat checks formal eligibility criteria. Projects that fail to meet the formal eligibility criteria are notified shortly after the deadline of the pre-proposals and will not enter the Call.
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