SPI Flagship Initiatives are multi-annual programmes combining science and technology projects from different disciplines and different groups/institutions in Switzerland around a polar focus region. The funding is focused on field campaigns (logistics, safety, etc.), data management, outreach, and programme coordination, thus providing temporary infrastructure for a Swiss-led polar research programme.

Further information can be found in the detailed description of the SPI Flagship Initiatives framework and scope provided in the SPI Flagship Initiatives – Call for Proposals. Please feel free to reach out to secretariat@swisspolar.ch if you have any questions.

The 2025 call for SPI Flagship Initiatives pre-proposals is now open

The second call for proposals for SPI Flagship Initiatives starts with the call for pre-proposals to be submitted by 30 April 2025.

Click the “Read More” button below to see the full call, important dates, and current SPI Flagship Initiatives.

Each proposal must have one principal applicant based in Switzerland. The applicant must have an eligible Swiss institution affiliation (Swiss federal institutes of technology, cantonal universities, federal and cantonal research institutes, or universities of applied sciences).

Applications are open from the 31st of January 2025 to the 30th of March 2025.

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Each proposal must include one principal investigator based in Switzerland, affiliated with an eligible Swiss institution, and one principal investigator in Latin America. Multilateral partnerships with additional Latin American countries are welcome.

Applications are open from the 31st of January 2025 to the 30th of April 2025.

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In collaboration with SRI2025, GSS aims to provide financial support to students, early career sustainability researchers, practitioners, and mentors, enabling them to attend the SRI2025 Congress in person in Chicago from June 16-19, 2025. Scholarships will range between $2,000-$3,500 depending on need, and may cover costs associated with registration for attending the conference in person, travel to/from the conference, and lodging. For more information on this funding opportunity, please visit our application page below.
(Open to U.S. Citizens)

First round of applications will be open Jan. 6 – Feb. 23

Apply to the GSS Scholarship here.

EPIC-N

EPIC-N is providing financial assistance to its members. Please fill out the form in the button below to apply for financial assistance. 

For more information, you may reach out to info@epicn.org.

Apply to the EPIC-N Scholarship here.

Expeditions funded by the MEF must:

• Take place in mountain regions.
• Have exploration (the acquisition of new knowledge) as their main purpose.
• Normally have the majority of its members from the UK, New Zealand and/or Nepal.

Applications and supporting documentation should be submitted by email to the MEF Secretary. Closing dates for receipt of completed applications are the 31st January for expeditions talking place after mid-April of that current year, and the 30th September for those expeditions taking place after 1^st December the same year and before the end of the following year. These dates are strictly observed, and expeditions are never considered in retrospect. A Screening Committee meets to consider these applications twice a year – in November and March.

Because the National Science Foundation’s mandate is to support fundamental scientific research, the HEGS program cannot fund research that takes as its primary goal humanistic interpretations or findings that are not generalizable or reproducible. HEGS welcomes proposals that utilize quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods in novel ways. However, a proposal that applies geographical or geospatial methods to a geographic problem without proposing how that problem provides an opportunity to make a theory-testing or theory-expanding contribution to geographical science, broadly defined, will be returned without review. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and geospatial methods and that will have broader impacts that benefit society.

Generally, successful HEGS proposals should describe clear and detailed plans for data collection (including sample selection if appropriate), justification for proposed methods, plans for data analysis, attention to confounding variables, and efforts to address biases (e.g., confirmatory biases, selection biases, etc.). Competitive HEGS proposals should substantiate the validity of findings and generalizability to broader contexts.

It should be noted that HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore, it is critical that research projects submitted to the HEGS program illustrate how the proposed research questions engage human dimensions that are relevant and important to people and societies.

A proposal that fails to be responsive to these program expectations will be returned without review.

Deadline for proposal submission is 28th February 2025.