UniBE researchers at Experimental Animal Information Day 2026, Kornhausplatz Bern; Info booth on animal welfare and alternatives
Research News August 2026
VR Research and Innovation Newsletter August 2026 Sent to: UniBE professors, lecturers and intermediate staff Inselspital and UPD doctors and scientific staff This official monthly newsletter provides you with the latest news, calls and events on research and innovation. You can find all our previous newsletters at: ⟶ www.newsresearch.unibe.ch Content Focus Calls Events Information Focus Experimental Animal Information Day 2026 UniBE researchers will be at an infobooth to present their research and answer questions about animal experimentation, alternative methods, and animal welfare. 05.09.2026, 10:00 - 14:00, Kornhausplatz Bern ⟶ more ERC Starting Grant 2027 – call is open Funding for talented early-career researchers (0-10 years after PhD) who show potential to become research leaders. EUR 1.5 million for 5 years to lead an independent project. Grants Office support is available. Deadline: 14.10.2026 ⟶ more (internal link) SNSF Ambizione Grant 2027 – last call is open Funding for early-career researchers (1-4 years after PhD) to lead an independent project. Budget details and information on the internal host letter procedure are available on the Grants Office website. Deadline: 03.11.2026 ⟶ more (internal link)
Calls UniBE Promotion Fund Deadline: 12.10.2026 Funding: CHF 5,000 ⟶ more COST (European Cooperation) Deadline: 28.10.2026 Networking activities ⟶ more ⟶ all open calls Events 31.08.2026 01.09.2026 ⟶ SOR4D Advancing Transdisciplinary Research for Global Development onsite Wednesday 16.09.2026 ⟶ Entrepreneurship Center Female Founders Bern 17:00 - 20:00 onsite Monday 26.10.2026 ⟶ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine FundMe Insights (postdoc grant writing) 09:00 - 17:00 onsite, registration by 14.08.2026 Wednesday 28.10.2026 ⟶ Alumni UniBE Science Slam 4.0 18:30 - 21:00 onsite ⟶ all events Information Wiley gold article quota nearly exhausted – The 2026 article quota for publishing in gold open access journals is expected to be exhausted by September 2026. ⟶ more Swiss Reproducibility Network Workshops – Hands-on workshops on open research data, pre-registration, and computational reproducibility are being held from Aug 2026 to Jan 2027 at the Universities of Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich.
⟶ more Join new COST Actions – European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Actions offer international networking opportunities. There are over 70 new projects open for participation across a broad range of topics. ⟶ more ERC Work Programme 2027 published – The European Research Council (ERC) 2027 calls will be the last under the current EU Framework Programme “Horizon Europe”. Find out what is new and what the 2027 Work Programme has to offer. ⟶ more Research Integrity Online Course – This online course guides you through the complex ethical aspects of the research process. It can be completed with a certificate that most funders/journals recognise as proof of knowledge about research integrity. ⟶ more ©2026 University of Bern Imprint Legal Notice Universität Bern Hochschulstrasse 6 3012 Bern KNOWLEDGE GENERATES VALUE.