Germaine de Staël Funding Programme

• Project dossiers can be submitted in French or English.
• Projects that have already received support under this programme cannot be submitted as new applications immediately after their completion.

IMPORTANT: Only applications submitted by both research partners to the bodies responsible for managing the programme in their country will be accepted. Swiss researchers are requested to make sure of this.

Link to Campus France (for the French team)

• Scientific quality of the project

• Scientific competences of the teams

• Active participation and mobility of young researchers, in particular doctoral and post-doctoral students.

• Interest in cooperation and complementarity of the French and foreign teams

• Structuring and validation perspectives of the project

• Proportion of women in the research teams

• Expected scientific (and, if applicable, industrial) results

• Other European funding already guaranteed to the research team (Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, COST)

• New collaboration with the partner team

Application year 

• 5 March: Start of the application phase for the funding programme
• 15 May: Deadline for submission of project dossiers (in French or English)
• 15 June: Deadline for expert evaluations
• End of November: Publication of the results on the SATW website

First year       

• 26 September: Deadline for submission of the mid-term report (max. 2 pages including request for extension of financial support) and for the first cost reimbursement application (cf. form)
• December: Deadline for the second cost reimbursement application (cf. form)

Second year    

• 15 September: Deadline for the third cost reimbursement application (cf. form)
• December: Deadline for the fourth claim for reimbursement (cf. form)

Last year     

• 28 February: Deadline for submission of the final report (max. 3 pages)