Eligible institutions
The Swiss Leading House South Asia offers funding instruments to researchers from all Swiss federal and cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences, universities of teacher education and public research institutes across all scientific disciplines and fields of research.
Eligible institutions are defined in the Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation (RIPA):
- The two federal institutes of technology (ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne) and research institutes (Eawag, empa, PSI, WSL) within the ETH Domain
- Higher education institutions and other institutions within the higher education sector that are accredited under the Federal Act on the Funding and Coordination of the Higher Education Sector (HEdA)
- Research facilities of national importance
- Non-commercial research centres outside the higher education sector
- Policy research institutions which are not federal research institutes, but which must conduct their own research projects for the appropriate fulfilment of their remit