Germaine de Staël funding programme: Ten exciting projects selected.

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The bilateral meeting of the Germaine de Staël funding programme took place on 24 and 25 October 2024. The programme supports cross-border research cooperation between French and Swiss teams. Together with representatives from Switzerland and France, ten applications were approved from over 30 submissions.

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This year, the selected projects impressively demonstrate the diversity of cooperation between France and Switzerland - from research into new therapies to interdisciplinary projects that combine technology and society.

Selected projects:

  • Ivo UTKE et le projet ALD-BAT (Etude de la nucléation et croissance de couches minces par dépôt atomique appliquées aux batteries)

  • Britta LUNDSTROEM et le projet Novel innovative treatments against the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis: Echinocide

  • Pascal OESCH et le projet COSMIC: Comprehensive overview of stochastic star formation histories in primaeval galaxies

  • Ferdinand VON MEYENN et le projet Mechanisms of trained immunity against Staphylococcus aureus infection.

  • René ROSSI et le projet MOMASKIN Modular skin mOdel for the investigation of complex MAterial-SKin Interactions

  • Thomas HUNKELER et le projet Femmes d'influence - Réseaux et transmissions entre France et Suisse (première moitié du XXe siècle)

  • Kimberly KLINE et le projet Dissecting the influence of biological sex on wounded tissue colonisation and host response

  • Cyrus KHALATBARI et le projet Mapping the Environmentally Situated Practices of Computing Power: A Research Group

  • Ricardo CHAVEZ-GARCIA et le projet Effect representation and learning for robotic cooking (EFFERAL)

  • Reto HUBER et le projet High density Electroencephalography (EEG) in Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence

The complete list with further information in PDF format can be found here.

Next call for proposals

The Germaine de Staël programme shows how much potential there is in international cooperation. Take the opportunity to become part of the programme. The next call for applications will take place between 5 March and 15 May 2025.

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