ETH4D Humanitarian Action Challenges Grants
ETH4D Humanitarian Action Challenges
The goal of the ETH4D Humanitarian Action Challenges is to support project-based research between ETH Zurich researchers and EPFL researchers and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to leverage science and technology for a greater impact of humanitarian action.
Some of the Downloadmain issues, priorities and requirements for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) can be found in this document (PDF, 651 KB). Researchers submitting an application for the Humanitarian Action Challenges are strongly encouraged to review these ICRC priority areas.
Proposals need to address a clearly defined research question that has the objective of increasing the impact of humanitarian action. Humanitarian Action Challenges must develop, test, evaluate or implement an innovative product, policy or service – involving a technology that responds to a specific humanitarian challenge.
The team must consist of at least one main applicant from ETH who holds a PhD, and at least one partner from the ICRC.
- It is encouraged (but not mandatory) to have one partner from a low- or middle income country and a partner from EPFL. Partners from the entire ETH Domain (PSI, WSL, Empa, and Eawag) and other humanitarian institutions are welcome to join as co-applicants.
- If the main applicant is not an ETH professor, a letter of commitment by the ETH host professor or head of the unit, indicating their financial contribution to the project, must accompany the proposal.
Grant Sum: 50 - 300 kCHF
Matching Funds: The main applicant and potential co-applicants from the ETH domain (excluding EPFL) must provide matching funds corresponding to at least 25% of the requested grant. Matching funds can come from third-parties or professorship reserves. Staff costs of doctoral students, post-docs and research assistants in Switzerland that are not funded by the grant count as matching funds.
Project Duration: 6 - 24 months
- Completed DownloadApplication form (DOCX, 44 KB)
- Bibliography
- Work packages and Milestones shown in a Gantt-Chart.
- DownloadBudget (XLSX, 17 KB), which must include matching funds.
- Letter(s) of support from the ICRC as well as from any other non-academic partner(s), clearly stating the question to be addressed in the project, its relevance to the organisation, and the contributions (both financial and staff time) the partner is willing to make to the project.
- CV of all involved partners (max. 2 pages per person).
Please consult the DownloadHumanitarian Action Challenges Guidelines (PDF, 213 KB) before applying.
All application documents must be written in English and must be submitted electronically (in one single PDF file) in the online form below.
The Humanitarian Action Challenges are part of the external pageEngineering for Humanitarian Action Initiative.