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The Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) commissioned the HES-SO as the Leading House (LH) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Its overall goal is to develop scientific collaborations between Switzerland and countries of the MENA region.
Goals
The Leading House MENA has set three strategic goals:
- Further development of the research cooperation between Switzerland and countries with a high development potential in the above mentioned region with funding instruments designed according to the interests of the Swiss research community
- Increase of knowledge on countries with a high development potential among the Swiss research community through the availability of contacts and know how
- Representation of the interests of the Swiss research community towards potential partners in the region.
The LH MENA in numbers
MENA institutions
Awarded projects
Swiss institutions
Program 2021-2024
The Leading House MENA 2021-2024 mandate was officially launched at the Kick-off Event 2021-2024 on October 18, 2021. You can find the presentations and excerpts from this event on the following page.
For the 2021-2024 period, the focus is on cooperation for research projects, with the introduction of “Research partnership grants”, a regular instrument that is launched three years in a row. This is followed by a larger instrument, the “Consolidation grants”, launched in the second half of the term.
Each call is announced individually on this website and by email. You can subscribe to our mailing list by writing to lhmena(at)hes-so.ch
In another development for the Leading House, these instruments are now open to all MENA countries, except in special cases: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
Detailed conditions and eligibility criteria are specified in the regulations for each instrument.
