Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships

10/11/2025

✨The revised Guide for Global Research Partnerships is now available✨
Developed participatively with over 200 contributors worldwide, the revised Guide reflects today’s realities of global research to support you in fostering effective, equitable and impactful collaborations.
The 6️⃣ principles for Global Research Partnerships point at the main pillars of global collaboration.
📚🧐 Background information on each principle supports researchers, funders and practitioners in strengthening Global Research in practice.
👉 Learn more and access the Guide: www.grp-guide.ch

CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), UniPID - Finnish University Partnership for International Development

26/02/2025

New Name: «Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships»

In June 2025, we will change the name of the KFPE to «Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships».
Learn more about the reasons for revising our name at the Annual Conference on 20 June.
kfpe.scnat.ch/en/about_kfpe

26/02/2025

Key Features of Sustainable North-South Funding Instruments
This factsheet provides practical recommendations how research funding can contribute to high quality and transformative global research. The factsheet elaborates how sustainable funding instruments contribute to co-created research, targeted capacity development and reduced institutional disparities for achieving efficient and impactful global research.
Read the factsheet:

This factsheet provides practical recommendations for enabling conditions, fostering balanced partnerships, and achieving meaningful results. Key considerations include co-creating research agendas, promoting targeted capacity development, reducing institutional disparities, and adopting transparent...

26/02/2025

Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships
Research projects are better if they build on high quality research partnerships.
Our latest report provides recommendations for funding institutions how to evaluate the quality of global research partnerships and what to evaluate. The recommendations are easy to apply for designing and conducting an evaluation of research proposals or mid-term reviews.
Read the full report: https://kfpe.scnat.ch/en/key_activities/uuid/i/6438afdb-6017-529e-835c-883e58f09c6b-Evaluating_the_Quality_of_Global_Research_Partnerships

CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation

13/09/2024

Join us in the discussion on how to revise the KFPE Guide for Transboundary Research Partnerships.
- What makes research collaborations successful?
- Which challenges do you face in research collaborations?
- How could a guide best support your collaborations?

Share your experiences and ideas on our interactive online survey on MURAL: https://kfpe.scnat.ch/en/about_kfpe/current_projects/interactiv_survey_on_equitable_research_collaborations_and_the_kfpe_guide

13/09/2024

Join us in the discussion on how to revise the KFPE Guide for Transboundary Research Partnerships.
- What makes research collaborations successful?
- Which challenges do you face in research collaborations?
- How could a guide best support your collaborations?

Share your experiences and ideas on our interactive online survey on MURAL:

The revision of the KFPE Guide for equitable transboundary research partnerships is underway, and we want to incorporate your expertise. Share your ideas and experiences on the MURAL platform and be part of this participatory process by helping us to adapt the guidelines to the current challenges of...

15/05/2024

23/02/2024

Engage with us in discussions on how to strengthen sustainable, equitable partnerships in North-South collaboration. Submit your workshop idea before 8 March 2024 👉 https://kfpe.scnat.ch/en/annual_conference
NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)

The SUDAC & KFPE Conference 2024 stimulates discussions on how to strenghten sustainable, equitable partnerships in North-South collaborations.

20/02/2024

Our latest newsletter is out! Learn more about new funding opportunities for global research collaborations, events, courses and publications.

The SUDAC and KFPE annual conference is a meeting place for researchers and practitioners involved and interested in North-South research partnerships. The aim of this year’s event is to reflect on the state of current funding models for North-South collaboration in research and education, to disc...

25/01/2024

The SOR4D-Programme has selected eight projects for funding. Congratulations to the winners!
The KFPE wishes you every success and joy in realising your projects and creating long-term impact!

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

25/01/2024

Isabel Günther from NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation has been elected as the new president of Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries, KFPE. The KFPE is delighted to have an inspiring and committed new president to work with. Isabel Günther is the successor to Thomas Breu, who has led the KFPE successfully and with great passion over the past six years.

04/12/2023

Kristian Lanz from allianceSud and Achim Wennmann from IHEID have been elected as new members of the steering board of KFPE. We are honored to welcome you to our board and we are looking forward to your contributions to push KFPE to the next level.