Questions and concerns

Do you have a question or concern about a research idea, an application or an ongoing research project and do not know who to contact?

Here you will find an alphabetical list of your contacts at the ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ in the area of research and innovation, along with links to pages with answers to the most common questions.

Animal Welfare Office

  • Animal Welfare Officer
  • Proposals and projects involving animals
  • Applications for animal experimentation authorizations, 3R protocols, "e-tierversuche"

Data Protection Office

  • Data protection issues
  • Handling personal data in research proposals and projects

Export Control Contact Point

  • Export control regulations: international research cooperations, business trips, visiting scientists, equipment export, technology development
  • Export control licenses

Finance Office

  • Project and overhead accounts (Kredite)
  • Procurement of equipment and services
  • Equipment depreciation

Your first contact is the finance manager in your institute/department. For questions about external funds, contact the Grants Office (EU, US, other international) or Innovation Office (Innosuisse).

Good Research Practice Contact Point

  • Research compliance and good research practice
  • Ethics and research integrity

Grants Office and Euresearch Office

  • Public funding programs and international grants: Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, US federal agencies, SNF
  • Funding search
  • Research proposals and projects
  • Project audits

Human Resources Office

  • Recruitment and employment of personnel on research projects
  • Salaries for proposals and projects

Your first contact is the human resources manager in your institute/department. For questions about external funds, contact the Grants Office (EU, US, other international) or Innovation Office (Innosuisse).

Innovation Office

  • Innovation proposals and projects
  • Public funding programs: Innosuisse, Eurostars, Eureka
  • Entrepreneurship, start-up and spin-off companies

Legal Services Office

  • ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ regulations
  • Research agreements for the faculties: Law, Phil.-hist., Phil.-hum., Theology, WISO

Open Science Team

  • Open access, open research data, repositories
  • Data management plan (DMP) for proposals and projects
  • Publishing, copyright, licenses

Research Management Office

  • Digitalization in research
  • Open Science
  • Knowledge security
  • Research evaluation

Unitectra

  • Technology transfer, inventions, exploitation of research results
  • Protection of intellectual property, licensing
  • Research agreements with private organizations for the faculties: Medicine, Phil.-nat., Vetsuisse