Period 2021-2024 (Continuation Program)

Call for Project Proposals (closed)
In its March meeting 2020, the ETH Board approved the continuation program of the SFA Advanced Manufacturing in the next four-year planning period. In its concept paper of this continuation program, the Steering Committee defined four Technical Focus Areas for 2021 to 2024. These four TFAs provide continuity of the current program, but broaden at the same time the scope, as they include all advanced manufacturing technologies as well as all applications targeted with these manufacturing technologies.

The call for project proposals was officially issued on 15 June 2020. Principal Investigators (PIs) from the four participating ETH institutions were invited to submit pre-proposals for projects addressing a key challenge in at least one of the four Technical Focus Areas 2021-2024 until 28 August 2020.

In total, 33 consortia and more than 120 Principal Investigators (PIs) from the institutions of the ETH Domain have submitted a pre-proposal. The Steering Committee will evaluate the proposals and project ideas according to the defined project selection criteria and invite the consortia of the best pre-proposals to prepare full proposals. 
Schedule
Below, you will find the schedule of the call with all important activities and deadlines. For more information, please see the Call for Project Proposal document. If you have questions that are not answered in the call document, do not hesitate the Program Manager of the SFA Advanced Manufacturing.
Date
Action
Who
15 June 2020
Issuing of the Call Document /
​Invitation to prepare pre-proposals
PM
June - Aug.
Preparation of pre-proposals
PIs
13 July 2020
Online Workshop for PIs to
​present project ideas and find partners
PM/PIs
28 Aug. 2020
Deadline to submit pre-proposals
PIs
Sep. / Oct.
Evaluation and selection of pre-proposals
SC
16 Oct. 2020
Decision about pre-proposals /
​Invitation to prepare full proposals
SC/PM
Oct.-Dec.
Preparation of full proposals
PIs
14 Dec. 2020
Deadline to submit full proposals
PIs
Dec. - Feb.
Evaluation and selection of full proposals
​(including international reviews)
SC/IR
12 Feb. 2021
Decision about full proposals /
​Information of the project consortia
SC/PM
Feb. - Apr.
Project preparation
PIs
1 Mar. 2021
Earliest start of research projects
​(latest start on 1 July 2021)
PIs
Legend: IR = International Reviewer, PI = Principal Investigator, PM = Program Manager, SC = Steering Committee
Related Documents
Guideline to prepare Full Proposals
sfa-am_2p_guideline-full-proposal.pdf
File Size: 492 kb
File Type: pdf
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Call Document (with revised schedule)
sfa-am_2p_call-for-project-proposals_v3.pdf
File Size: 382 kb
File Type: pdf
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Templates "Project Proposal"
Excel Project Plan Template
sfa-am_2p_project-plan-template.xlsx
File Size: 208 kb
File Type: xlsx
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Word Proposal Template
sfa-am_2p_project-proposal-template.docx
File Size: 70 kb
File Type: docx
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Rich Text Format Proposal Template
sfa-am_2p_project-proposal-template.rtf
File Size: 661 kb
File Type: rtf
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(without Excel support in the cost table)
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