The Foundation’s support of research on healthy ageing focuses
on a complex systems approach: supporting research on how modifiable
environmental and contextual factors interact to shape functional ability in
later life. The aim is to enable people to remain healthy, to contribute to
society, and to pursue what matters to them for as long as possible. We seek
research projects that:

• Go beyond single-cause thinking. Study how environmental and
  contextual factors interact to shape functional ability in later life.
• 
  
  Show the interaction, not just the factor. Capture pathways
  of risk and resilience, and identify which features are modifiable enough to
  act on.
• 
  
  Match method to ambition. Use systems thinking in
  established designs, or complex-systems methods directly and translate findings
  into scalable, context-sensitive solutions.

Focus areas

• Changing the narrative of age and ageing
• 
  
  Heat and out-of-home mobility & activity in later life

Eligibility:

The Principal Investigator (PI) role is open to researchers

a) holding a permanent position

b) at career stage R3 or R4 (established or leading researcher, according to
the European research profiles descriptors).

c) at an academic research institution in Switzerland, EU member states, the
United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea,
Singapore, or Japan.



Researchers and professionals with fixed-term contracts, or affiliated with
non-academic institutions, are warmly welcome to join as co-PI or collaborator.
Co-PIs and collaborators from non-listed countries are permissible.



An application requires at least two project partners (PI and co-PI) from
different institutions. The PI needs to be from an academic research
institution. Other partners or collaborators can be non-academic stakeholders.



Research results need to be relevant for at least one of the following
countries: Switzerland, EU member states, the United Kingdom, Canada, the
United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, or Japan.
Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged.

Funding: Max. CHF 75’000 per year, for projects up to 4
years

Co-funding: Not mandatory, but welcome and positively
considered where it broadens a project’s reach or partnership