Basic Research Funding Agencies: International Comparison

On behalf of the Swiss Science Council (SSC), WIFO is updating a comparison of basic research funding agencies for the German Expert Commission on Research and Innovation (EFI) from 2019. The focus is on how the funding levels, evaluation and decision-making procedures, as well as governance of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) compare to international best practice agencies, including the main research funding agencies from the USA, Singapore, Norway, Germany, England and the Netherlands. In detail, comparisons of the funding portfolios are made, as well as funding criteria and characteristics, peer review procedures of the respective main funding track (usually single project funding).