Impact Funding Resources
With the current ophthalmology funding program, Velux Stiftung wants to contribute to ultimately reduce visual impairments and blindness in LMICs through research funding.
End Date29 Sep 2025 Funding AmountUpto CHF 400k Funding Resource TypeResearch Grant
Research Grant
Application Guidelines
https://veluxstiftung.ch/wp-content/uploads/Application-guideline.pdf
The document Funding Criteria offers a more detailed description.
https://veluxstiftung.ch/wp-content/uploads/Funding-Criteria.pdf
Strategic focus:
• Developing and strengthening institutional research capacity in LMICs, reinforcing ophthalmology research locally at the institutional level in a sustainable manner
• Identifying and working on the specific biomedical knowledge gaps in LMICs in relation to the local context and environment
Projects that will induce a change of perspective in ophthalmology research and will strengthen the institutions necessary for this research to take place. In the long run the projects will provide innovative and effective solutions for the challenges in eye health specific to LMICs.
Project type:
• Institutional research capacity strengthening projects: projects aiming at sustainably building, developing, or reinforcing institutional structures enabling biomedical ophthalmology research in LMICs.
• Innovative and interdisciplinary biomedical research projects aiming to develop and validate new diagnostic, prevention, or treatment methods for eye diseases adapted to the local context of LMICs. Such projects must also contribute to some extent to strengthen capacities of the institutions in LMICs
Three pillars of funding criteria
- Impact
- Scientific quality
- Resources
Applicant(s)
The principal investigator (PI) must be a permanent employee (e.g. professor, group leader) and act in a legally binding way on behalf of his/her organisational unit, which has to be a legal accountable entity. This usually is an academic research institution, but exception might apply in some funding areas. Non-permanent employees are welcome to apply as co-PI. T
Collaborations
The foundation welcomes interdisciplinary collaborations. While we support research worldwide, we also welcome applications from Swiss institutions or transboundary partnerships. We ask that a collaboration is clearly delineated and follows the principles for fair and equal partnership
