Funding

Our projects are (have been) funded or supported by:

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

The Paul Scherrer Institut

NCCR-MARVEL: The NCCR MARVEL is a new centre on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials, that has been created by the Swiss National Science Foundation in May 2014.

Swiss Confederation’s innovation promotion agency (KTI/CTI)

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists for the Academic

Swiss - Romanian Cooperation Programme: Project co-financed by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union.

Scientific Exchange Programme between Switzerland and the New Member States of the European Union (Sciex-NMS),
through the Rectors Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS)

The European Commission within the 7th Framework Programm:
Project: "e-LIFT"

The European Commission within the 7th Framework Programm:
Project: "Marie Curie Actions - Research Fellowship Programme"

A workpackage within the flagship project NANCER of the research unit “Surface, Coatings & Particles Engineering” (SPERU), which is part of the Competence Center for Materials Science and Technology (CCMX)

The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)
Materials with Novel Electronic Properties (MaNEP) with C. Niedermayer, PSI (finished: L. Schlapbach + A. Weidenkaff, Empa)