The application phase and evaluation of the MAPS (Multilateral Academic Partnerships in Science) programme, announced as part of the second funding period of the Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation Program, has been concluded.

The call, aimed at establishing research consortia in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, and social sciences and humanities in cooperation with Swiss, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, or Bulgarian partners, was launched on 2 April 2020 with the application deadline of 1 July 2024.

The applications submitted were evaluated over several months by external evaluators and thematic international panels. Out of nearly 350 applications submitted, seven projects with notable Hungarian participation received funding. The cooperation presents an excellent opportunity to strengthen the international presence of Hungarian researchers.

Applications with Hungarian participation that were granted aid:

• HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences,
  Project title: Combinatorial synthesis of cyclic peptide libraries and their application against emerging therapeutic targets
  (Discipline: MINT)
• Eötvös Loránd University,
  Project title: Extranuclear activities of genome maintenance protein complexes in stress response
  (Discipline: LS)
• HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences,
  Project title: Templating Chemical Spaces with Layered Hybrid Perovskites (TeSLa)
  (Discipline: MINT)
• HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics,
  Project title: Spin and Hubbard Models in a cavity QED setting (SpinHubQ)
  (Discipline: MINT)
• HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies,
  Project title: Transforming Social Inequalities in the Digital Society. The Role of Vocational Education and Training
  (Discipline: SSH)
• Semmelweis University,
  Project title: Plant lessons: Identification of intrinsic and extrinsic factors determining higher plant ABC transporter directionality
  (Discipline: LS)
• National University of Public Service,
  Project title: Transboundary water cooperation between EU member States and third countries: governance resilience analysis and hydropolitical model-building
  (Discipline: SSH)

The programme operator for the Research programme under the Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation Programme, with a total budget of CHF 11,216,741, is the National Research, Development and Innovation Office.

The MAPS call for applications is available at the SNSF official website.

For more information on the Swiss-Hungarian Cooperation, please visit www.svajcialap.hu.