Types of research grants
Purpose:
Support for specific research projects with a clearly defined problem, methodology, and timeline.
Who can apply:
Typically individual researchers or research groups.
What is supported:
Salaries, equipment, data collection, travel, and potentially PhD or postdoc fellowships.
Tips for applying:
Be precise in your project description, formulate clear research questions, and demonstrate how the project contributes new and significant knowledge. Provide a realistic budget and timeline with concrete milestones.
Purpose:
Awarded to researchers with documented high-quality research that has the potential to deliver groundbreaking results.
Who can apply:
Researchers at all levels — often early-career researchers establishing or consolidating their own research group.
What is supported:
Ambitious, original, and high-risk projects, often over a longer time-frame.
Tips for applying:
Emphasize your research profile and previous results. Show how the project can change the research field or create new paradigms.
Purpose:
Support for projects focusing on application, societal impact, or commercialization of research.
Who can apply:
Researchers with ideas that have innovation potential—preferably in collaboration with companies or public institutions.
What is supported:
Prototype development, proof-of-concept, testing, partnerships, and early market validation.
Tips for applying:
Clearly describe the innovative aspect and the potential societal or commercial value. Document demand or need and demonstrate how the project can create value beyond academia.
Purpose:
Designed to attract and support researchers relocating to a new institution and establishing their own research group.
Who can apply:
Established researchers.
What is funded:
Salaries for staff, startup costs, and research expenses.
Application tips:
Demonstrate scientific excellence, strategic fit with the host institution, and how the grant will help you establish an independent research environment.
Purpose:
Promotes professional networking, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among researchers – both nationally and internationally.
Who can apply:
All career stages seeking to build relationships or participate in professional forums.
What is funded:
Workshops, seminars, conferences, exchange visits, and networking activities.
Application tips:
Show how the network supports your research and creates synergy. Clearly describe who will participate and how the network will be anchored or sustained.
