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Swiss Science: Quo Vadis after Exclusion from the European Framework Program?

Highlights

  • On July 14, 2021, it became official that Switzerland was dropped from the list of non-EU countries which are to engage in negotiations with the European Community for association to the European research network Horizon Europe and the student exchange program Erasmus+

  • With the degradation to third country status, it has lost its access to the prestigious grants of the European Research Council (ERC), it has only very limited access to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) for young researchers and it can no longer lead cooperation projects and only participate in such projects in a limited way

  • By intervention of the Federal Council for Economy, Research and Education, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) was mandated to set up a temporary backup scheme to fund Swiss projects that were positively evaluated by the scientific panels of the ERC

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A Column on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of CHIMIA

Christian Leumann graduated in organic chemistry from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1986. After a post-doc stay at the University of California in Berkeley and five years of research at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, he became. ©University of Bern, University of Bern in 1993. In addition picture: Ramon to his teaching and research activities, Lehmann. Christian Leumann has held a number of other positions. He was a member of the research council and President of the Division for Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Swiss. Since 2011 he is member of the Executive Board of the University of Bern, serving first as. Vice-Rector for research and as of August 1, 2016 as Rector of the University

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