The SNSF Starting Grants 2022 target researchers who wanted to apply for a 2022 ERC Starting Grant or for an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship. Consequently, there will be no Eccellenza call 2022.

Programme to allow those with prestigious global prizes to get fast-track visas dismissed as 'elitist' and a 'joke'

Fast Grants aimed to solve the slowness of the scientific grant evaluation procedure in several ways. This wasn’t business as usual. It was Operation Warp Speed for science.

Study of Swiss agency is among the first to examine how proposals by unorthodox scientists fared.

The Swiss research landscape suffers from a chronic underrepresentation of women. This can also be seen in the share of women applying for funding at the SNSF. But how did this share evolve over time? And have women been less successful to raise funds?

The successor to Francis Collins will need to be steadfast, nimble and creative in how they run the world's largest biomedical research agency at a pivotal time.

Every year, the SNSF receives around one billion francs from the federal government. In 2019, a total of 22.9 billion Swiss francs was available for R&D in Switzerland. The country ranks seventh in terms GDP share spent on R&D.

Scientists welcome the move, but say the funder should have gone further by also reconsidering grant applications previously ruled ineligible.

The drastic shake-up of the country's science system is intended to boost innovation, but there are concerns about political interference in the new centralized agency.

The Australian Research Council's decision to reject early career funding applications that mention preprints is hopelessly outdated, say scientists.

Programme awarded $US50 million in rapid grants and highlights limitations in existing scientific-funding mechanisms.

The pact for research and innovation should give stakeholders a greater say over the implementation of the European Research Area (ERA), says Science Europe.

Large increases to the budget of the US National Institutes of Health can spur wide investment, but also increase competition among junior researchers.

The Office for Students (OfS) has confirmed changes to how it will distribute funding to universities and colleges for 2021-22. OfS funding supplements course fees which pay for the bulk of higher education course costs.

Swiss programme favours mainstream work, but unconventional applicants aren't deterred, say Charles Ayoubi and colleagues.

The investments are promising but won't fix the primate shortage, experts say.

A new study of grants awarded to early-career researchers by Europe's premier science agency is reviving an old controversy over the way governments decide which scientists get research money, and which do not.

Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics?

Studies and surveys confirm that during the COVID-19 pandemic, women's workload at home has increased. Does that mean women researchers are also submitting fewer proposals to the SNSF? Analyses show that, with one exception, their share has remained stable.

2022 spending request would boost civilian but cut defense research

Institutional affiliations of panellists seem to skew European Research Council decisions - especially in the life sciences.

Nearly 900 universities, research organisations, and funding agencies want science publishers to be more transparent and abide by open access rules, after scientists complained their submissions are rejected if they apply a public copyright licence to accepted manuscripts.

The Swiss National Science Foundation hopes to eliminate bias when choosing between applications of similar quality.

The SNSF meticulously examines its funding activities. From now on, it will publish these analyses on its data portal. To kick things off, Open Access, ERC grants and women scientists during the pandemic are in focus.