RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@SNF_ch/116000038278544878
"More demand, but less money available" is hardly ever what you want to hear if you are trying to find funding for research. This is how the Swiss National Science Foundation deals with it in its most popular funding scheme (project funding).
Should be interesting news here for researchers in #Switzerland. Essentially, the already announced chances considered to project funding are now formally here:
- each researcher can have only one funded project running anymore at a time (plus one Lead/ Weave/ ICIS)
- for re-applying to the project funding after rejection, you now need to wait a year
- funding for salaries in the project capped at 200k/year (250k/year without salaries)
I do think, given the circumstances, these are sensible changes by the @SNF_ch - putting a bit of a brake on the overheating submission carousel. Some things that I find interesting to see now are:
- Will we be seeing more shenanigans with people being designated PIs for projects others basically write for them (already a problem anyhow with the eligibility rules and not being able to fund your own salary)?
- Will we be seeing more international collaboration applications within the Weave and Lead Agency schemes in particular?
- Will overall project sums for disciplines that are mainly requiring personnel, not equipment, actually go down? For example, I am a social scientist - beyond computing and travel, I mostly need people for projects, not microscopes.
❗📢 Der SNF passt die Projektförderung per 1. April 2026 an. Unser Ziel ist es, die Erfolgsquoten auf einem Niveau zu stabilisieren, das die Unterstützung der Forschung von höchster Qualität sichert. So gewährleisten wir faire Chancen für alle Forschenden.
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