New Paths in Fundraising

Innovation: Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh explains his project to former Empa Director Gian-Luca Bona: He wants to produce low-cost sensors for medical technology using a special printer. Image: Empa - Many potentially groundbreaking ideas are born in the minds of researchers at Empa - not all of them can be implemented, and for some there is simply no funding. The Empa Zukunftsfonds is intended to close this gap in the future; through professional fundraising, the Zukunftsfonds supports exciting research projects that have not yet received funding elsewhere, as well as particularly promising talents. The Ria & Arthur Dietschweiler Foundation is now supporting such a fellowship for young researchers for the first time with 270,000 Swiss francs. Empa is one of Switzerland's key drivers of innovation; application-oriented, practical, focused on the prime challenges of our time. In more than 400 ongoing research projects with several hundred partners from all over the world, researchers are developing innovative materials, technologies and concepts to enable the energy transition, advance a circular economy or bring personalized medical applications into everyday practice. To keep this innovation engine running, it needs to be kept lubricated - with scholarships, grants, donations and other types of financial support.