ETH4D Research to Action Grants 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 30, 2026

Applications are open for the ETH4D Research to Action Grants 2026. The ETH4D Research to Action grant goals to be sure that analysis outcomes are getting used, carried out, and disseminated. It helps ETH Zurich bachelor college students, grasp college students, doctoral candidates, put up-docs, senior scientists, and professors to develop prototypes, discover alternatives for entrepreneurship and focus on their work with practitioners.

Grant

• The grant sum is up to 5 kCHF for college kids and postdocs and 20 kCHF for professors and senior scientists.

Eligibility

• Bachelor college students, grasp college students, doctoral college students, put up-doctoral scientists, senior scientists, and professors are eligible to apply. Students have to be enrolled on the time actions are carried out. Projects require a collaborating non-tutorial companion, based mostly within the undertaking’s nation of focus and wish a letter of assist from the non-tutorial companion. 
• Projects want to (i) have an institutional hyperlink to ETH Zurich e.g. earlier analysis or programs taken at ETH or be related with ETH initiatives and (ii) exhibit world development-​associated influence by bridging the hole between analysis and follow.
• Preference can be given to actions in nations listed as “least developed, low- and lower-middle-income country” in accordance to the DAC-listing of the OECD. Applications with a spotlight space exterior of the DAC-listing ought to justify their choice.

Application

Application ought to embody:

• Detailed finances (template finances). The actions described within the undertaking description needs to be accounted for within the finances. Note that this grant doesn’t cowl bills from the previous.
• Single PDF containing the next:
  • Project description and targets (Download template)
  • Project work plan and timeline within the type of a Gantt chart
  • Letter of assist from the non-tutorial companion or collaborator within the nation of focus
  • Financial affirmation letter by ETH professor or unit (extra particulars within the standards doc)
  • CV of the applicant, together with publication listing (max. 2 pages)
  • One reference letter from inside ETH (not needed for functions from professors)

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to ETH4D Research to Action Grants.