global_innovation

The next ULF-global_innovation call will open in fall 2025. Should you have planned a proposal for the call of 2024, please contact us via global@ulf.uzh.ch 

Applications that pursue the creation of a course within the framework of a course developed together with the European university alliance Una Europa (e.g. Joint Bachelor of Art in European Studies (BAES) or Joint Bachelor in Sustainability (BASUS)), can be submitted independently from ongoing calls for proposals. Should you have any questions or already be thinking about offering such a course, please contact us via global@ulf.uzh.ch to arrange a personal meeting. 

The funding line global_innovation promotes projects that aim to provide students at UZH with a wide range of internationalization experiences. Project applications can be submitted once a year in fall. The commission for Education and Student Affairs decides on their approval at its last meeting of the Fall Semester (usually in December).  The funding line pursues two funding objectives:  

1. Building and establishing institutional cooperation in teaching with UZH partner universities: UZH’s Global Strategy focuses in particular on sustainable cooperations in research, teaching and to address complex societal problems. It opens the horizon for cooperation in teaching and research beyond the European area. For the realization of the Global Strategy in teaching, the development and establishment of mobility options for UZH students as well as the framework conditions for international incoming students are decisive.  

• Establishing international structural cooperation in teaching: The development of reliable courses that facilitate mobility and the recognition of credits received from partner universities and that combine the excellence of the partner universities with the needs and interests of the students with regard to the destinations are central to teaching. In this context, the development of agreements on regulated module exchange, double and joint degrees, and shorter exchange formats such as summer, winter, or method schools will be promoted.
• Enabling Internationalization@Home: Since not all students have the opportunity and/or are willing to spend time abroad, they should also be able to gain a variety of internationalization experiences during their studies at UZH, for example through international summer, winter or methods schools hosted in Switzerland, or through the development of Cooperative Online International Learning modules (COIL). Good structures and modules that render UZH an attractive place to study for non-German-speaking international students, e.g. UZH-specific language courses and onboarding even before arrival in Zurich, complete possible funding objectives to achieve the goal of being able to gain intercultural experience at UZH.  

2. Joining the European university alliance Una Europa on December 1, 2022, marks a milestone for the integration of UZH into the European Higher Education Area as well as for UZH’s development perspective of not only entering into close international, institutionally anchored collaborations in research, but also developing joint, institutionally anchored degree programs in teaching. In addition to the development of joint Bachelor’s study programs, the piloting of micro-credentials is another focus of possible projects supported by the global_innovation funding line. There is no competitive call for proposals for Una-Europa-Projects. Follow-up applications, that result from an already authorized participation of the UZH at a joint course of multipe Una Europa-partner university, can be submitted anytime. Generally, two types of applications can be distinguished:  

• For the additional offer of existing courses at an Una Europa-partner University or an additional proposal in English language at the UZH, costs for a (substitution) teaching assignment as well as incurring travel costs can be requested. The compensation for the (substitution) teaching appointment is aligned with the official chart of compensations for teaching assignments. For the reimbursement of travel costs, the UZH Expense Regulations need to be adhered to.  
• For the development of a new course with a didactical innovative concept that should be offered in the framework of a Una Europa-study program, 50,000 CHF for a maximum of two years can be requested analog to regular global_innovation-projects on module level.