Leading House Asia, ETH Zurich

Mandated by the State Secretariat in Education, Research and Innovation, ETH Zurich as Leading House Asia is responsible for the promotion of collaboration in science and technology with the East and Southeast Asia region. It offers funding for projects with partners in the target region. Depending on the funding instrument, support is offered in cooperation with specific partner funding agencies or for the whole region. For the 2021–2024 funding phase the Leading House Asia offers funding instruments to researchers from all Swiss universities, universities of applied sciences, universities of teacher education, and public research institutes, in all research fields. The Leading House Asia works in close collaboration with Swiss federal institutions such as embassies and their S&T offices, as well as Swissnex, and other organizations.