The Werner Siemens Foundation provides generous seed funding to outstanding, innovative projects in technical fields and the natural sciences—with the goal that, in a few years, the projects can be run independently or that the results find industrial application.

The projects must address relevant problems or challenges of our times.

The Foundation considers projects that are highly likely to find industrial application (TRL>3), including novel areas of application. As a rule, these are projects conducted at universities and other higher education institutions, mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The Werner Siemens Foundation also supports young talent and junior scholars in the natural sciences, technical fields, mathematics, informatics and medicine.

> Activities in the arts and culture (music, theatre, dance, film, visual arts, cultural heritage), sports and leisure
> Political projects
> Undertakings in social services, disaster relief
> Co-sponsoring of projects with other foundations
> Individual grants, costs of studying, doctoral theses
> Open-ended commitments
> Commercially-oriented projects
> Basic research
> Projects receiving venture capital

If your project fulfils the funding criteria of the Werner Siemens Foundation, you are invited to submit a proposal to info@wernersiemens-stiftung.ch.

The selection process is as follows:

1. The project must fulfil the funding criteria
2. Two-to-six-page project application containing an executive summary and the requested amount of funding, including information on payment installments 
3. Send project proposal as a PDF per email
4. The Scientific Advisory Board makes a preliminary assessment
5. Additional information is requested, if required
6. The Foundation Board and the Siemens Family Advisory Board evaluate all proposals
7. Decision
8. Contract

The selection process takes six months.