Innovation Partnership Grants: “innovation agents” in East and Southeast Asia

The Innovation Partnership Grants support the establishment of a cooperation between Switzerland-based researchers with non-academic innovation agents (i.e. companies, start-ups, hospitals) in East and Southeast Asia.

Eligible applicants: postdoctoral researchers, senior scientists, or professors of Swiss federal and cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education, and public research institutes.

Eligible Asian partners: Innovation agents must be senior staff affiliated with a company, start-​up, innovation park or similar agency in the partner country. University scientists from the partner country can participate as third parties. 

Eligible locations: China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN member states. Research partners located in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are also eligible.

Funding: max. 20k CHF for a project of up to 12 months

Details and procedure on ETH Leading House webpage.