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4EU+ presents 4 thematic areas, also known as the Flagships, that form the basis for interdisciplinary cooperation. Aligned with the United Nation’s sustainability goals, these 4 Flagships are Flagship 1: Urban Health and Demographic Change; Flagship 2: Europeanness – Multilingualism, Pluralities, Citizenship; Flagship 3: Digitization – Modelling – Transformation; Flagship 4: Environmental Transitions.

A wide range of academic activities are supported under the 4EU+ Flagships framework, including project funding schemes, visiting professorships, mobility, conferences/seminars/workshops, joint research/study programs, as well as summer/winter schools.

Discover 4EU+ funding programs

Internal Grants

Launched between February and March, the Internal Grants are characterized by their high flexibility to implement new research or teaching projects in the flagship frameworks. The objective is to strengthen and develop collaboration between the members of the 4EU+ Alliance during this process. The seed funding is offered for projects carried out under the responsibility of a member of the UNIGE academic staff. Current opportunity >>

Mini Grants

Supported by Charles University since 2019, the mini grants are launched between February and March, providing seed funding to develop research-focused activities and research-based education across the 4EU+ Alliance. Applicants can receive up to ca. 12,000 €/year and must be headed by a principal investigator from Charles University. Current opportunity >>

Student Mini Grants

Similar to the mini grant scheme, student mini grants are supported by Charles University and launched between February and March. This seed funding aims to encourage students and young researchers of the 4EU+ Alliance to collaborate without the limitation of their fields, faculties or universities. We welcome all projects that initiate international research collaboration, organize joint educational activities, develop socio-cultural collaboration and strengthen the third role of the university. Current opportunity >>

Visiting Professorships

Launched between April and May, the 4EU+ Visiting Professorships Program is open to academics and researchers. The selected candidates will be sponsored for a two- to three-month stay at another 4EU+ university. The objective is to support them in carrying out joint educational and research projects that contribute to the development of new educational frameworks, novel expertise and enhancement of knowledge and skills. Current opportunity >>

SEED4EU+

Launched between June and September, SEED4EU+ reflects the ambition of the 4EU+ Alliance – it seeks to unite and integrate all university missions. To support our academic community in broadening its creative horizons, this open call provides funding to out-of-the-box initiatives that do not fit into customary calls for project proposals. The selected team can receive up to €50,000. Current opportunity >>

Others

Besides the above-mentioned funding schemes, new opportunities keep coming up! Stay tuned or contact our local office to get funded.

Selected Projects at UNIGE

Faculty of Medecine

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Matthias Kirschner & Stefan Kaiser	Symposium with best practice teaching units and the transfer of the associated knowhow on psychiatry	1	Internal grants
Patrick Petignat	The programming power of the placenta: A short-lived organ with a longlasting impact on global health	1	Mini Grants
Eric Comte & Nicolas Ray	4GLOBAL+	1	Mini Grants
Marie Cohen	FROM FETAL TO LIFELONG HEALTH: DYNAMIC MATERNAL ENVIRONMENTS AND IMPACT OF THE PLACENTA	1	Mini Grants
Idil Özsahin	Summer School of Practical Ophthalmology	1	Students Mini Grants
	FROM FOREST TO PHARMACY	1	Students Mini Grants
Karl Blanchet	MOOC on Migration, Health and Equity	1	SEED4EU+
Oliver Hartley	Ribosome Emergence: role of CHARGE, sequence and structure of nucleic acids and peptides in phase behaviour and activity	1	SEED4EU+
Eric Comte	Global Health Academy	1	Outreach

Faculty of Theology

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Elisabeth Parmentier	The Texture of Hope: Dialogue in the Age of Conflicting Worldviews	2	Mini Grants

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Greta Pelgrims	Educating heritage language (HL) learners and pupils learning a second language (SL): Differences in approaches	2	Mini Grants
Greta Pelgrims, Slavka Pogranova et Michaela Chlostova Munoz	Heritage language education in Europe: Legislative and educational challenges	2	Mini Grants

Faculty - Geneva School of Social Sciences (G3S)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Claudine Burton-Jeangros	Building Bridges for Urban Health	2	Internal Grants
Sandro Cattacin	The recognition of the fragile body in the city	1&2	Internal Grants

Faculty - Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
François Grey	SDG Summer School	2	Internal grants
François Grey	SDG Olympiads	2	Internal grants
Christina Hertel	Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Project Management		Internal grants
Andrea Rubbi	2nd 4EU+ Tomorrow’s Research and Science Innovation in Students' Start-ups (4EU+ Transition)	3	Students Mini Grants
Salvatore Di Falco & Rasha Shakra	The Postdoc Network in Agricultural, Climate and Environmental Economics	4	SEED4EU+
Katarzyna Wac			Visiting Professorship

Faculty of Humanities

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Sandrine Kott	Cooperations in Europe 19119-1989	2	Ad-hoc

Faculty of Law

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Alexandre Flückiger	Charting the course towards a new legal framework for smart cities	3	Mini Grants

Faculty of Translation and Interpreting

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Mathilde Fontanet	TRANSLATE4EU+	2	Ad-hoc

Faculty of Sciences

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Sébastien Castelltort & Luca Carrichi	Extension du projet MOVE	4	Internal grants
Jerome Lacour	Chiral Lab-on-Chip (CLC) devices for the detection of environmentally		Internal grants
Nicolas Brunner	Quantum information and quantum many-body theory		SEED4EU+
Luca Caricchi & Sébastien Castelltort	Manage and Organize Virtual Excursions	4	SEED4EU+
Louk Rademeker	Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) on Moiré superlattices.		Visiting Professorship
Orsolya Barabas	Mobile genetic elements (MGEs)		Visiting Professorship

Computer Science Centre (CUI)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Katarzyna Wac & Alexandre Wenger	Inclusive Cities – Regenerative Resources: An Interdisciplinary Challenge-based Research and Joint Study Programme on Urban Health and Climate Change	1	SEED4EU+

Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Géraldine Pflieger	Internationalisation of existing offers	4	Internal grants
Julien Goy & Géraldine Pflieger	Development of joint master programmes and integration into learning pathways	4	Internal grants
Gregory Giuliani	EO4ForestChange	4	Internal grants
Nicolas Seidler & Géraldine Pflieger	Study trip on environmental governance	4	Outreach