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4EU+ presents 4 thematic areas, also known as the Flagships, that form the basis for interdisciplinary cooperation. Aligned with the United Nation鈥檚 sustainability goals, these 4 Flagships are Flagship 1: Urban Health and Demographic Change; Flagship 2: Europeanness 鈥� Multilingualism, Pluralities, Citizenship; Flagship 3: Digitization 鈥� Modelling 鈥� Transformation; Flagship 4: Environmental Transitions.

A wide range of academic activities are supported under the 4EU+ Flagships framework, including project funding schemes, visiting professorships, mobility, conferences/seminars/workshops, joint research/study programs, as well as summer/winter schools.

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Discover 4EU+ funding programs

4EU+ Explore funds by UNIGE

Launched between February and March, the听Explore funds are characterized by their high flexibility to implement new research or teaching projects in the flagship frameworks. The objective is to strengthen and develop collaboration between the members of the 4EU+ Alliance during this process.听The seed funding is offered for projects carried out under the responsibility of a member of the UNIGE academic staff. Current opportunity >>

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Academic Mini Grants by Charles AV短视频

Supported by Charles AV短视频 since 2019,听the academic听mini grants are launched between听February and March,听providing seed funding to develop research-focused activities and research-based education across the 4EU+ Alliance. Applicants can receive up to ca. 12,000 鈧�/year听and must be headed by a principal investigator from Charles AV短视频.听Current opportunity >>

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Student Mini Grants by Charles AV短视频

Similar to the academic mini grants, the student mini grants are launched between February and March. This seed funding aims to encourage students and young researchers of听the 4EU+ Alliance to collaborate without the limitation of their fields, faculties or universities. We welcome all projects that听initiate international research collaboration, organize joint educational activities, develop socio-cultural collaboration and strengthen听the third role of the university.听Current opportunity >>

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Visiting Professorships

Launched between April and May, the 4EU+ Visiting Professorships Program is open to academics and researchers. The selected candidates will be sponsored for a two- to three-month stay at another 4EU+ university. The objective is to support them in carrying out joint educational and research projects that contribute to the development of new educational frameworks, novel expertise and enhancement of knowledge and skills. 听Current opportunity >>

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SEED4EU+

Launched between June and September, SEED4EU+ reflects the ambition of the 4EU+ Alliance 鈥� it seeks to unite and integrate all university missions. To support our academic community in broadening its听creative horizons, this open call provides funding to out-of-the-box initiatives that do not fit into customary calls for project proposals. The selected team can receive up to 鈧�50,000.听Current opportunity >>

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Others

Besides the above-mentioned funding schemes, new opportunities keep coming up! or contact our local office to get funded.

Selected Projects at UNIGE听

Faculty of Medecine

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Matthias Kirschner & Stefan Kaiser	Symposium with best practice teaching units and the transfer of the associated knowhow on psychiatry	1	Explore funds
Karl Blanchet & Florent Dupertuis	Open Studies Certificate	2	Explore funds
Patrick Petignat	The programming power of the placenta: A short-lived organ with a longlasting impact on global health	1	Mini Grants
Eric Comte & Nicolas Ray	4GLOBAL+	1	Mini Grants
Marie Cohen	FROM FETAL TO LIFELONG HEALTH: DYNAMIC MATERNAL ENVIRONMENTS AND IMPACT OF THE PLACENTA	1	Mini Grants
Idil Özsahin	Summer School of Practical Ophthalmology	1	Students Mini Grants
	FROM FOREST TO PHARMACY	1	Students Mini Grants
Karl Blanchet	MOOC on Migration, Health and Equity	1	SEED4EU+
Oliver Hartley	Ribosome Emergence: role of CHARGE, sequence and structure of nucleic acids and peptides in phase behaviour and activity	1	SEED4EU+
Pierre Maechler	ExplorINg The SynERgistic EffeCts Of DPP-IV and CA iNhibition in ANtidiabEtiC Therapy: A Study on Glucose Homeostasis	1	SEED4EU+
Eric Comte	Global Health Academy	1	Outreach

Faculty of Theology

Name听	Project听	Flagship听	Funding Scheme听
Elisabeth Parmentier	The Texture of Hope: Dialogue in the Age of Conflicting Worldviews	听2	Mini Grants

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Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Name听	Project听	Flagship听	Funding Scheme听
Greta Pelgrims听	Educating heritage language (HL) learners and pupils learning a second language (SL): Differences in approaches听	听2	Mini Grants
Greta Pelgrims, Slavka Pogranova et Michaela Chlostova Munoz听	Heritage language education in Europe: Legislative and educational challenges	听2	Mini Grants

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Faculty - Geneva School of Social Sciences (G3S)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Claudine Burton-Jeangros	Building Bridges for Urban Health	2	Explore funds
Marco Giugni	Summer school citizenship	2	Explore funds
Sandro Cattacin	The recognition of the fragile body in the city	1&2	Explore funds

Faculty - Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
François Grey	SDG Summer School	2	Explore funds
François Grey	SDG Olympiads	2	Explore funds
Christina Hertel	Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Project Management		Explore funds
Andrea Rubbi	2nd 4EU+ Tomorrow’s Research and Science Innovation in Students' Start-ups (4EU+ Transition)	3	Students Mini Grants
Salvatore Di Falco & Rasha Shakra	The Postdoc Network in Agricultural, Climate and Environmental Economics	4	SEED4EU+
Katarzyna Wac			Visiting Professorship

Faculty of Humanities

Name听	Project听	Flagship听	Funding Scheme听
Sandrine Kott	Cooperations in Europe 19119-1989	听2	Ad-hoc
Sandrine Kott	META United Nations	2	Ad-hoc

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Faculty of Law

Name听	Project听	Flagship听	Funding Scheme听
Alexandre Fl眉ckiger	Charting the course towards a new legal framework for smart cities	听3	Mini Grants

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Faculty of Translation and Interpreting

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Mathilde Fontanet	TRANSLATE4EU+	2	Ad-hoc
Fernando Prieto Ramos	RESONANT+ RESearch cOllaboration in the area of iNstitutional trANslator Training	2	Mini Grants

Faculty of Sciences

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Sébastien Castelltort & Luca Carrichi	Extension du projet MOVE	4	Explore funds
Jerome Lacour	Chiral Lab-on-Chip (CLC) devices for the detection of environmentally		Explore funds
Julien Levallois	3rd 4EU+ Tomorrow’s Research and Science Innovation in Students' Start-ups (4EU+ Transition)		Students Mini Grants
Nicolas Brunner	Quantum information and quantum many-body theory		SEED4EU+
Luca Caricchi & Sébastien Castelltort	Manage and Organize Virtual Excursions	4	SEED4EU+
Louk Rademeker	Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) on Moiré superlattices.		Visiting Professorship
Orsolya Barabas	Mobile genetic elements (MGEs)		Visiting Professorship
Tobias Golling & Svyatoslav Voloshynovskyy	Marie Curie Doctoral Network for AI in Particle Physics	3	Ad-hoc

Computer Science Centre (CUI)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Katarzyna Wac & Alexandre Wenger	Inclusive Cities – Regenerative Resources: An Interdisciplinary Challenge-based Research and Joint Study Programme on Urban Health and Climate Change	1	SEED4EU+
Giovanna Di Marzo	Research-oriented interdisciplinary projects	3	Explore funds
Giovanna Di Marzo	Bachelor in Mathematics Student Task	3	Ad-hoc
Giovanna Di Marzo	Integrative Think Tank	3	Ad-hoc

Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE)

Name	Project	Flagship	Funding Scheme
Géraldine Pflieger	Internationalisation of existing offers	4	Explore funds
Julien Goy & Géraldine Pflieger	Development of joint master programmes and integration into learning pathways	4	Explore funds
Gregory Giuliani	EO4ForestChange	4	Explore funds
Nicolas Seidler & Géraldine Pflieger	Study trip on environmental governance	4	Outreach
Gregory Giuliani	Ruderalitazation and invasive species spread as a consequences of land abandonment in European landscapes after 1990: detection and assessment using remote sensing.	4	Mini grants