The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) awards three researchers from the University of Bern an SNSF Consolidator Grant each. The funded research projects address indeterminacy in the world, the response of forests to climate change impacts, and age and aging as a multi-layered social and cultural phenomenon in the Roman Empire.
Due to Switzerland’s status as a non-associated third country in the Horizon Europe framework program, the SNSF launched the transitional measure "SNSF Consolidator Grants" on behalf of the federal government in 2022. This was aimed at scientists in Switzerland and abroad who wanted to conduct their research in Switzerland and consolidate their scientific independence.
Successful projects in the humanities and climate research
Three researchers at the University of Bern are receiving an SNSF Consolidator Grant 2023 in the current call for proposals: Vera Hoffmann-Kolss, Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Dr. Christoph Schwörer, Paleoecologist at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Plant Sciences, and Dr. Anna Usacheva, currently a member of the EX-PATRIA project at the University of Lille, who will carry out her research project at the Institute of Historical Theology at the University of Bern.
Hugues Abriel, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation at the University of Bern, says: "There are two reasons to be delighted - we once again have successful applications for this important SNSF research grant, and two of them are from the humanities, which tend to be rarely selected."
