ETH4D Research to Action Grants 2025

The ETH4D Research to Action Grant aims to ensure that research results are being used, implemented, and disseminated. It supports ETH Zurich bachelor students, master students, doctoral candidates, post-docs, senior scientists, and professors to develop prototypes, explore opportunities for entrepreneurship and discuss their work with practitioners.

ETH4D aims to combine technological innovation with a profound understanding of people’s behavior and their environments to identify new solutions for improving the lives of poor people. ETH4D therefore supports research, which combines the knowledge and skills of engineering, the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and promotes the collaboration between scientific research, civil society, industry and policy.

Grant of Research to Action

• The grant sum is up to 5,000 CHF for students and postdocs and 20,000 CHF for professors and senior scientists.

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Eligibility for Research to Action

• Bachelor students, master students, doctoral students, post-doctoral scientists, senior scientists, and professors are eligible to apply.
• Students must be enrolled at the time activities are carried out.
• Projects require a collaborating non-academic partner, based in the project’s country of focus and need a letter of support from the non-academic partner.
• Projects need to have an institutional link to ETH Zurich e.g. previous research or courses taken at ETH or be connected with ETH initiatives and demonstrate global development-​related impact by bridging the gap between research and practice. Please note that the grant does not cover expenses in the past.
• Preference will be given to activities in countries listed as “least developed, low- and lower-middle-income country” according to the DAC-list of the OECD. Applications with a focus area outside of the DAC-list should justify their selection.

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Application

Application documents include:

• Detailed budget (Download template budget). The activities described in the project description should be accounted for in the budget. Note that this grant does not cover expenses from the past.
• Single PDF containing the following:
  • Project description and objectives (Download template project description)
  • Project work plan and timeline in the form of a Gantt chart
  • Letter of support from the non-academic partner or collaborator in the country of focus
  • Financial confirmation letter by ETH professor or unit (more details in the criteria document)
  • CV of the applicant, including publication list (max. 2 pages)
  • One reference letter from within ETH (not necessary for applications from professors)

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