EU Projects at the University of Bern
Uni Bern researchers participate in more than 100 EU projects
The EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation are the second most important third-party funding source for researchers at the University of Bern after the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The University of Bern currently participates in a large number of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe individual and collaborative projects, as well as other EU programmes such as Euratom, the Active and Assisted Living Programme and the Innovative Medicines Initiative.
Horizon Europe projects
Ongoing projects receiving direct funding from Switzerland
Collaborative projects
Cluster 1: Health
BE-SAFE
Project title: Implementing a patient-centred and evidence-based intervention to reduce benzodiazepine and sedative-hypnotic use to improve patient safety and quality of care
PI: Nicolas Rodondi (Institute of Primary Health Care)
ESCAPE
Project title: Efficient and rapidly scalable EU-wide evidence-driven pandemic response plans through dynamic epidemic data synthesis
PI: Nicola Low (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
IntelliLung
Project title: Intelligent Lung Support for Mechanically Ventilated Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
PI: Martin Faltys (Department of Intensive Care Medicine)
MELISSA
Project title: Mobile Artificial Intelligence Solution for Diabetes Adaptive Care
PI: Stavroula Mougiakakou (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)
Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
UNTWIST
Project title: Policy recommendations to regain feminist losers as mainstream voters
PI: Leandra Bias and Michèle Amacker (Institute of Political Science)
Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
GEYEDANCE
Project title: AI guidance for robot-assisted eye surgery
PI: Raphael Sznitman (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)
SERI-Funded ERC Grants
Consolidator Grants
Successful projects submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) and now receiving Swiss funding.
CANWAS
Project title: Canopy Waves - Herbivore-Induced Volatile Dynamics Across Multiple Plants
PI: Matthias Erb (Institute of Plant Sciences)
SenseLife
Project title: Remote sensing of living organisms with full Stokes spectro-polarimetry
PI: Demory Brice-Olivier (Center for Space and Habitability)
RACE-GO
Project title: Rapid Active Coronagraphy of Exoplanets from a Ground Observatory
PI: Jonas Kühn (Physics Institute)
CoGS
Project title: Collective Guilt and Shame
PI: Benjamin Matheson (Institute of Philosophy)
Starting Grants
Successful projects submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) and now receiving Swiss funding.
META-MORPHOSIS
Project title: Identifying how life cycle variation drives biodiversity in changing environments over time and space
PI: Anne-Claire Fabre (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
DryCO2
Mechanisms of gas-driven mineral weathering in a changing climate
PI: Anna Harrison (Institute of Geological Sciences)
VolCOPE
Project title: Climate impact and human consequences of past volcanic eruptions
PI: Heli Huhtamaa (Institute of History)
MOANA
Project title: Mechanistic model simulations of the marine biological carbon pump
PI: Charlotte Laufkötter (Physics Institute)
FoBEx
Project title: Food webs and biodiversity change in an extreme world
PI: Madhav Thakur (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
A list of all Horizon Europe projects in which the University of Bern is participating can be found on CORDIS, the European Commission's database for research results.
Horizon 2020 projects
Ongoing projects coordinated by the University of Bern
European Research Council (ERC) Grants
Synergy Grants
EXPLO
Project title: Exploring the dynamics and causes of prehistoric land use change in the cradle of European farming
Uni Bern PIs: Albert Hafner (Institute of Archaeological Sciences), Willy Tinner (Institute of Plant Sciences)
Advanced Grants
HHMM-Neonates
Project title: Development of Healthy Host Microbial Mutualism in Early Life
PI: Andrew Macpherson (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)
TETHER
Project title: Targeting the essentialome of radiotherapy-resistant cancer
PI: Sven Rottenberg (Institute of Animal Pathology)
SPACE4AMPS
Project title: Chemical Space for Antimicrobials on a Peptide Basis
PI: Jean-Louis Reymond (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)
PALAEO-RA
Project title: A Palaeoreanalysis To Understand Decadal Climate Variability
PI: Stefan Brönnimann (Institute of Geography)
Consolidator Grants
GLOBAL HORIZONS
Project title: Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art
PI: Beate Fricke (Institute of Art History)
ConCorND
Project title: Connectivity Correlate of Molecular Pathology in Neurodegeneration
PI: Smita Saxena (Department of Neurology)
TransReg
Project title: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of cardiac regenerative capacity in the zebrafish
PI: Nadia Mercader (Institute of Anatomy)
SUSTAINFORESTS
Projekttitel: Tropical forest patches under pressure: Dynamics, functions and sustainable management in agricultural landscapes of the West African forest and savannah zones
PI: Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (Geographisches Institut)
FASERnu
Projekttitel: Studying Neutrinos at the High Energy Frontier
PI: Akitaka Ariga (Physics Institute)
SPACE TIE
Project title: Unifying the three pillars of Geodesy using space ties
PI: Adrian Jäggi (Astronomical Institute)
THERA
Project title: Timing of Holocene volcanic eruptions and their radiative aerosol forcing
PI: Michael Sigl (Physics Institute)
Starting Grants
WePredict
Project title: Microbiota and immune responses at weaning predict the susceptibility to chronic inflammatory diseases in adulthood
PI: Ziad Al Nabhani (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)
PRENEMA
Project title: Plant responses to the third trophic level as a novel determinant of multitrophic interactions
PI: Christelle Robert (Institute of Plant Sciences)
PROMOTING
Project title: Prograde metamorphism modeling: a new petrochronological and computing framework
PI: Pierre Lanari (Institute of Geological Sciences)
FIT2GO
Project title: A toolbox for fitness landscapes in evolution
PI: Claudia Bank (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
COMPASS
Project title: Is environmental justice necessary for human well-being? Comparative analysis of certification schemes, inclusive business, and solidarity economy strategies
PI: Christoph Oberlack (Centre for Development and Environment)
AlgoHex
Project title: Algorithmic Hexahedral Mesh Generation
PI: David Bommes (Institute of Computer Science)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Innovative Training Networks
G-VERSITY
Project title: Achieving Gender Diversity
Coordinator: Sabine Sczesny (Institute of Psychology)
The University of Bern is a consortium member in many other Innovative Training Networks, as well as Research and Innovation Staff Exchange projects. They can be found in the list of all EU projects above.
Individual Fellowships (postdoc stipends)
The University of Bern hosts many Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows. They can be found in the list of all EU projects above.
A list of all Horizon 2020 projects in which the University of Bern is or was participating can be found on CORDIS, the European Commission's database for research results.