Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research (CIRM), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
To encourage the start of new interdisciplinary projects, CIRM has made funds available (seed-funding). Limited to a maximum of CHF 20,000 per project, these funds are intended to launch interdisciplinary projects (particularly networking initiatives) focused on the concept of ‘Living Well in the Mountains.’ Funded projects should, where possible, lead to more ambitious, externally-funded research projects.
Three types of projects are funded:
- basic research projects;
- applied research projects;
- projects to promote the application of research results.
This year, projects that integrate researchers from the humanities and social sciences, from the natural or health sciences (strong interdisciplinarity), and scientists and actors from the local territory, in particular the Jura – and especially the partners of the CIRM (transdisciplinarity) – will be favoured, as will any proposals related to the Blatten disaster.
Proposals (written in French or English) must be submitted as a single pdf file to Christelle Monnet, secretary of CIRM (christelle.monnet@unil.ch) by 15 January 2026.