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title: "UniBE researchers at Experimental Animal Information Day 2026, Kornhausplatz Bern; Info booth on animal welfare and alternatives"
sdDatePublished: "2026-08-06T13:21:00Z"
source: "https://www.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/content/e1133/e1393805/e1576293/e1594377/files1828854/VRF_Newsletter_2026_08_ger.pdf"
topics:
  - name: "science and technology"
    identifier: "medtop:13000000"
  - name: "ethics"
    identifier: "medtop:20000814"
locations:
  - "Bern"
  - "Bern-Mittelland"
  - "Lausanne"
  - "Zürich"
  - "Switzerland"
---


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
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