The Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS) Program encourages interdisciplinary projects that deal with current issues in society and technology, and that are carried out as a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and UNIL (Université de Lausanne).
Through an annual call for projects, CROSS provides competitive grants (up to CHF 60,000/project) to support the preparatory phase of new research endeavors with a view to obtaining major funding.
Proposals must come from joint UNIL-EPFL teams, which bring together specialists in the human and social sciences on the one hand, with specialists from life sciences, natural sciences or engineering on the other.
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CROSS 2025
Open to all topics
![Crowd of anonymous people walking on busy city street - abstract city life concept](https://www.epfl.ch/schools/cdh/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CROSS_2024_iStock_credits_hanohiki_1920-384x216.jpg)
CROSS 2024
Open to all topics