EU Projects at the University of Bern
Uni Bern researchers participate in around 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 participates in a large number of individual and collaborative projects.
Below you will find a selection of ongoing projects from the list above. The CORDIS database of EU research results provides a complete list of all ongoing and completed Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 projects with the participation of the University of Bern.
Horizon Europe projects
Ongoing projects funded by the EU (from 1 January 2025) or receiving direct funding from Switzerland (until 31 December 2024):
Collaborative projects
In addition to other collaborative projects in Pillar 2, the University of Bern is currently participating in projects in the "Clusters" 1: Health, 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society, 4: Digital, Industry and Space, 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility, and 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment, as well as in the "Missions" Cancer and Adaptation to Climate Change.
Please see the list of projects at the top of this page.
Infrastructure projects
EBRAINS 2.0
Project title: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health
PIs: Mihai Petrovici, Walter Senn (Department of Physiology)
RADNEXT 2030
Project title: Accelerators and other Research Infrastructures for Radiation Effects Research
PI: Saverio Braccini (Physics Institute)
European Research Council (ERC) Grants
Synergy Grants
DEMI
Project title: Directed Evolution of Metastable Electrocatalyst Interfaces for Energy Conversion
PI: Matthias Arenz (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
CARAMEL
Project title: Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery
PI: Paola Luciani (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
MitoContact
Project title: Mitochondrial Contact Site Functional Diversity Revealed by Molecular Memory, Smart Microscopy, and Correlative Cryo-EM Tomography
PI: Wanda Kukulski (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine)
Consolidator Grants
PSII
Project title: Planetary Systems from Interstellar Ingredients
PI: Maria Drozdovskaya (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Starting Grants
BAC-MUNITY
Project title: Unravelling bacterial immunity against predatory bacteria: the last line of defence
PI: Simona Gabriele Huwiler (Institute for Infectious Diseases)
BGCTip
Project title: Unraveling tipping dynamics of marine biogeochemistry from past climate transitions
PI: Frerk Pöppelmeier (Physics Institute)
LeGO
Project title: Legal Governmentality - governing climate activism through criminal law and human rights in Europe
PI: Jevgeniy Bluwstein (Institute of Social Anthropology)
Proof of Concept
UniADLP
Project title: Universal Acoustic Digital Light Processing 3D Printing
PI: Daniel Ahmed (ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research)
SAFE-LIVER
Project title: Metabolic Hepatoprotection to Enable Curative Cancer Therapy in Patients with Vulnerable Livers
PI: Sven Rottenberg (Institut für Tierpathologie)
SERI-funded ERC Grants
Successful projects that were submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) but funded by Switzerland.
Advanced Grants
CNS-IP
Project title: Understanding how the brain barriers orchestrate central nervous system immune privilege
PI: Britta Engelhardt (Theodor Kocher Institute)
Consolidator Grants
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)
ENERGETICS
Project title: Explaining the energetics of solar flares
PI: Lucia Kleint (Astronomical Institute)
RACE-GO
Project title: Rapid Active Coronagraphy of Exoplanets from a Ground Observatory
PI: Jonas Kühn (Physics Institute)
Starting Grants
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)
FoBEx
Project title: Food webs and biodiversity change in an extreme world
PI: Madhav Thakur (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
OpenRing
Project title: Forest biodiversity-stability relationships across spatiotemporal scales
PI: Rubén Delgado Manzanedo (Institute of Plant Sciences)
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)
CoGS
Project title: Collective Guilt and Shame
PI: Benjamin Matheson (Institute of Philosophy)
MOANA
Project title: Mechanistic model simulations of the marine biological carbon pump
PI: Charlotte Laufkötter (Physics Institute)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
The University of Bern is currently participating in Doctoral Networks and Staff Exchanges and has several running Postdoctoral Fellowships.
Please see the list of projects at the top of this page.
Horizon 2020 projects
Ongoing projects coordinated by the University of Bern:
European Research Council (ERC) Grants
Advanced Grants
TETHER
Project title: Targeting the essentialome of radiotherapy-resistant cancer
PI: Sven Rottenberg (Institute of Animal Pathology)
Consolidator Grants
FASERnu
Projekttitel: Studying Neutrinos at the High Energy Frontier
PI: Akitaka Ariga (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)