Research Earth

Swiss research institutions have long maintained numerous research partnerships with institutions in low- and middle-income countries. They are funded by various Swiss organisations, such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), or private foundations. Although individual research organisations and funding agencies document their projects in various databases, an overview of all global research partnerships was missing. To close this gap, the KFPE and the r4d-programme jointly developed this new digital map to comprehensively show Switzerland's current research partnerships with institutions in low- and middle-income countries.

As a researcher, you can explore who is conducting research in the same field or region as yourself in order to find new research partners in Switzerland and in low- and middle-income countries. You can benefit from synergies by exchanging with researchers active in the same field or region, strengthen your network to develop new research projects, and display your research on research-earth to a large audience from science, business, civil society and administration.

As a research funder, you can identify clusters of cooperation and gaps in research funding. With this overview of current Swiss research collaborations, you can coordinate with different funding programmes and use synergies. You also have the possibility to display the research collaborations funded through your own programmes.

As a development organization, you benefit from getting an overview of current research activities in your topics of interest and regions of focus. You can choose to contact researchers to learn more about their projects and potential collaborations and can display the research activities you are involved in.