In November 2015, a delegation of the board of actionuni met with representatives of SNSF. The very positive exchange focused on:

• the impact of financial austerity in Switzerland on the funding of research,
• access of researchers of Universities of Applied Sciences and Universities of Teacher Education to SNSF funding,
• the future of academic careers,
• permeability of SNSF funded and University funded career paths,
• conditions of employment non-professorial academic staff
• academic independence of non-professorial academic staff
• funding of interdisciplinary research of non-professorial academic staff, and
• the flexibility of SNSF-instruments for researcher with families.