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Research Partnership Grants 2025

The RPG 2025 call is now closed.

The call for projects "Research Partnership Grants" aims at developing new joint project proposals or connecting already existing funded projects in Switzerland and in the MENA partner countries into long-lasting cooperation. The goal of this instrument is to allow researchers to conduct desk-based research, fieldwork, feasibility studies, archival research, qualitative interviews, surveys, artistic practices, design thinking, or other forms of collaborative work, in order to apply for grants from other funding agencies (e.g. national funding agencies or EU funding schemes), and/or to develop long-term partnerships between two institutions or research groups. The Research Partnership Grants instrument has already been launched in 2021, 2022 and 2023. 

Call for projects guidelines

Funded projects

By the deadline of the call for projects, 157 applications had been submitted from 15 countries in the MENA region and 36 institutions in Switzerland. Following an eligibility check, an evaluation by external reviewers from Switzerland and the MENA region, and a final selection by a committee, thirteen projects were chosen for funding. The list of selected projects is provided below.

Waste Watchers: A Citizen Science Project to Reduce Food & Plastic Wastes from Households in Lebanon and Switzerland

Lebanon

| Environmental Sciences

Tunisian dust records across the MIS 5-4 transition

Tunisia

| Earth Sciences

Designing for Trust: Embedding Moral Responsibility in Generative AI Use in the Classroom

United Arab Emirates

| Information and Computing Sciences

The Role of Academia in Post-Conflict State-Building in Syria

Syria

| Human Society

Tracing Deception and Misinformation Heuristics in LLMs via Causal Neural Circuit Discovery

United Arab Emirates

| Information and Computing Sciences

Inclusive AI for Cancer Care: Model Adaptation and Human–AI Integration in Low-Resource Settings

Egypt

| Biomedical and Clinical Sciences

Exploring the political in public health: Perspectives from practitioners and academics about the political determinants of health

United Arab Emirates

| Health Sciences

Clinical Uncertainty and Resilience in Crisis Settings (CURE): A Mixed-Methods Study on Healthcare Providers’ Lived Experiences in Gaza

Occupied Palestinian Territories

| Health Sciences

Optimizing Hydrogen Integration in Urban Energy Systems for Hot Climates: Simulation and Control Insights from Switzerland and Morocco

Tunisia, Morocco

| Engineering

Cognitive Well-Being in Hybrid Classrooms: A Cross-Cultural Study across Switzerland, Morocco and Tunisia

Tunisia, Morocco

| Education

Swiss–Tunisian Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Familial Syndromic Intellectual Disability

Tunisia

| Biological Sciences

Bridging the Adoption Gap: Integrating Behavioral Insights to Accelerate Climate-Smart Agriculture in Lebanon

Lebanon

| Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences

Agile Urban Climate Spaces as adaptive Climate Response Units: Building collective knowledge across Cairo and Geneva’s adaptation of urban spaces to extreme weather events

Egypt

| Built Environment and Design

Research Partnership Grants 2025

Humanitarian Relief Logistic Networks with Consideration of Pre- and Post-disaster Management

Tunisia

| Information and computing science, Public Health

Compétences globales dans l'enseignement supérieur

Morocco

| Education, Cognitive Sciences

New Interconnection Perspectives for Electrical Energy Exchange between Europe and North Africa

Algeria

| Engineering Sciences, Environment

Deciphering orbital and suborbital signatures from lacustrine sediments: Insights into the MIS-3 and the Last Termination in Northwest Africa

Morocco

| Earth Sciences, Environment

Efficacy of DNA polymerase inhibitors in breast cancer using breast intraductal mouse model

Lebanon

| Medicine, Biosciences

Méthodes numériques pour la prédiction des déformations et l'anticipation des retraits thermiques en fabrication additive

Tunisia

| Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences

Characterizing human adipose stem and precursor cells at the single nucleus level in obese and diabetic patients

Qatar

| Medicine, Biosciences

Wood Anatomy-based Hydroclimatic Reconstruction for Enhancing Understanding of Climate Variability in the MENA Region

Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

| Environment, Earth Sciences

Youth in crisis: A cross-cultural investigation of the mental health problems faced by the young people in Lebanon and Switzerland

Lebanon

| Cognitive Sciences, Public Health

Immersive Imperfection

Egypt

| Built Environment and Design

Recherche-Action: Elaboration d’un référentiel des compétences pédagogiques des enseignant·e·s-chercheur·e·s de l’enseignement supérieur agricole en Tunisie

Tunisia

| Education, Cognitive Sciences

Development of a prototype of low-tech, space efficient soilless cultivation (aquaponics) for refugee camps in Jordan

Jordan

| Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences, Engineering

Preliminary study: Valorization of camel milk through improved feeding with by-products and development of high potential dairy products

Morocco

| Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences, Economics

Pile à combustible

Lebanon

| Engineering Sciences, Environment