Services and Advice Contact Points and Topics A-Z

Questions and concerns

Do you have a question or concern about a research idea, an application or an ongoing research project and do not know who to contact?

Here you will find an alphabetical list of your contacts at the University of Bern in the area of research and innovation, along with links to pages with answers to the most common questions.

Animal Welfare Office

  • Animal Welfare Officer
  • Proposals and projects involving animals
  • Applications for animal experimentation authorizations, 3R protocols, "e-tierversuche"

Data Protection Office

  • Data protection issues
  • Handling personal data in research proposals and projects

Export Control Contact Point

  • Export control regulations: international research cooperations, business trips, visiting scientists, equipment export, technology development
  • Export control licenses

Finance Office

  • Project and overhead accounts (Kredite)
  • Procurement of equipment and services
  • Equipment depreciation

Your first contact is the finance manager in your institute/department. For questions about external funds, contact the Grants Office (EU, US, other international) or Innovation Office (Innosuisse).

Grants Office and Euresearch Office

  • Public funding programs and international grants: Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, US federal agencies, SNF
  • Funding search
  • Research proposals and projects
  • Project audits

Human Resources Office

  • Recruitment and employment of personnel on research projects
  • Salaries for proposals and projects

Your first contact is the human resources manager in your institute/department. For questions about external funds, contact the Grants Office (EU, US, other international) or Innovation Office (Innosuisse).

Innovation Office

  • Innovation proposals and projects
  • Public funding programs: Innosuisse, Eurostars, Eureka
  • Entrepreneurship, start-up and spin-off companies

Legal Services Office

  • University of Bern regulations
  • Research agreements for the faculties: Law, Phil.-hist., Phil.-hum., Theology, WISO

Open Science Team

  • Open access, open research data, repositories
  • Data management plan (DMP) for proposals and projects
  • Publishing, copyright, licenses

Research Management Office

  • Digitalization in research
  • Open Science
  • Research integrity and ethics
  • Research evaluation

Unitectra

  • Technology transfer, inventions, exploitation of research results
  • Protection of intellectual property, licensing
  • Research agreements with private organizations for the faculties: Medicine, Phil.-nat., Vetsuisse

Further contacts