{"id":2995,"date":"2022-07-12T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:07:10","slug":"comment-financer-ses-recherches-how-to-fund-your-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/2022\/07\/12\/comment-financer-ses-recherches-how-to-fund-your-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment financer ses recherches ? \/\/ How to fund your research?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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ACIDUL, en collaboration avec le Service Recherche et le Graduate Campus, s\u2019est pench\u00e9e sur les financements priv\u00e9s \u2013 par des fondations, des associations, des ONG, etc. \u2013 de la recherche \u00e0 l\u2019UNIL. Pour mieux saisir la place que prenaient ces soutiens et les conditions dans lesquelles ils \u00e9taient octroy\u00e9s, un questionnaire en ligne a \u00e9t\u00e9 envoy\u00e9 aux doctorant\u00b7e\u00b7s et membres du corps interm\u00e9diaire, en comprenant les ALUMNIL. Parmi les questions pos\u00e9es : le type de financement (projet avec salaire ; frais de recherche ; projet avec salaire tiers ; frais de congr\u00e8s, etc. ; s\u00e9jour hors UNIL ; autre), le montant demand\u00e9 et la r\u00e9ponse obtenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plusieurs r\u00e9sultats valent la peine d\u2019\u00eatre partag\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout d\u2019abord, les demandes de financement par des organismes priv\u00e9s \u2013 qui excluent donc les fonds accord\u00e9s par l\u2019UNIL et par le Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS) \u2013 proviennent surtout de la Facult\u00e9 de biologie et de m\u00e9decine. Ce constat n\u2019est pas surprenant, car la facult\u00e9 fait appel de longue date \u00e0 des bailleurs de fonds priv\u00e9s. On observe ensuite que ce sont avant tout les financements qui incluent un salaire que recherchent les doctorant\u00b7e\u00b7s et membres du corps interm\u00e9diaire, ce qui confirme l\u2019insuffisance actuelle de l\u2019offre sur fonds publics. Suivent les demandes pour des frais de recherche (par exemple, travail de terrain, visite d\u2019archives, frais de publication), puis les projets avec salaire tiers, qui permettent d\u2019embaucher d\u2019autres personnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les candidat\u00b7e\u00b7s ont soumis des demandes de fonds \u00e0 56 organismes priv\u00e9s. Parmi ceux-ci, les plus sollicit\u00e9s sont la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 acad\u00e9mique vaudoise<\/em>, la Fondation Emma Muschamp<\/em>, la Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research<\/em> et la Fondation Erna Hamburger<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En ce qui concerne le statut des candidat\u00b7e\u00b7s au moment de la demande, 57% d\u2019entre eux et elles \u00e9taient sans contrat. Autrement dit, ces personnes \u00e9taient sans financement public. Les doctorant\u00b7e\u00b7s qui n\u2019ont pas ou plus de financement de th\u00e8se sont surrepr\u00e9sent\u00e9\u00b7e\u00b7s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On note \u00e9galement d\u2019une part que 60% des demandes n\u2019ont pas abouti \u00e0 un financement, d\u2019autre part que seul un quart des demandes aurait permis de financer un peu moins d\u2019un an de salaire d\u2019un\u00b7e doctorant\u00b7e si elles avaient abouti. Les organismes les plus g\u00e9n\u00e9reux sont les suivants : Fondation Leenaards<\/em>, Fondation Bryn Turner-Samules<\/em>, Swiss Lung Association<\/em>, Fondation Emma Muschamp<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enfin, en tenant compte du nombre important de personnes qui ont re\u00e7u le questionnaire (entre 4000 et 4500), notons que peu de personnes ont r\u00e9pondu. On peut se demander si ce faible taux de r\u00e9ponse r\u00e9v\u00e8le un faible taux de demandes pour ce type de financement. Par ailleurs, nous avons remarqu\u00e9 qu\u2019il r\u00e8gne une certaine confusion entre ce qui rel\u00e8ve d\u2019un financement public et priv\u00e9. De nombreuses r\u00e9ponses ont en effet d\u00fb \u00eatre \u00e9cart\u00e9es, car elles portaient sur des financements publics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De ces r\u00e9sultats, on retiendra surtout le fait que les financements priv\u00e9s permettent seulement de financer des \u00e9v\u00e9nements d\u2019appoint de la recherche et qu\u2019ils ne peuvent se substituer aux financements publics en ce qui concerne les salaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ACIDUL, in collaboration with the Service Recherche and the Graduate Campus, has looked into private funding of research (by foundations, associations, NGOs, etc.) at UNIL. To better understand the extent of this support and the conditions under which it is granted, an online survey was sent to PhD students and the mid-level academic staff, including ALUMNIL. Questions concerned, for instance, the type of funding (research project with salary; research expenses; research project with third-party salary; conference, etc.; research stay outside of UNIL; other), the amount requested, and the answer obtained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several results are worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, requests for funding by private organizations – which therefore exclude funds granted by UNIL and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) \u2013 mainly come from the Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Such a finding is not surprising given that the faculty has long called on private donors. Moreover, projects with a salary make up most applications, which confirms the scarcity of public funding offers today. Next are applications for research costs (e.g. field work, visits to archives, publication fees), followed by projects with third-party salaries, which allow to fund other researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candidates submitted applications for funding to 56 different organizations. Among these, the most solicited are the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 acad\u00e9mique vaudoise<\/em>, the Emma Muschamp Foundation<\/em>, the Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research<\/em> and the Erna Hamburger Foundation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the status of the candidates at the time of application, 57% of them were without a contract. In other words, they did not have any kind of public funding. PhD students who do not have or no longer have funding are over-represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, it appears that 60% of applications did not result in any funding at all, and only a quarter of applications could have funded a little less than a year’s salary for a PhD student had they been successful. The most generous organizations are the following: Fondation Leenaards<\/em>, Bryn Turner-Samules Foundation<\/em>, Swiss Lung Association<\/em>, Emma Muschamp Foundation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, it should be noted that few people responded to our survey compared with the number that received it (between 4000 and 4500 people). Could such a low response rate indicate a low rate of demand for this type of funding at UNIL? Besides, there seems to be a certain confusion between public and private funding. Indeed, many responses had to be discarded because they concerned public funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, it is good to keep in mind that most of the time private funding can only support research and not actually fund salaries for researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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