Last year’s activities are summarized in our Short Report 2025. The foundation made significant strides developing the funding strategies in three areas.
In 2025, our research funding activities supported 17 projects in Switzerland and abroad, with a total of CHF 8.1 million. This includes the funding of CHF 2.9 million for the third phase (2026-2030) of the Daylight Academy, an international platform that brings together scientists, architects, engineers, and practitioners to explore the role of daylight and think about solutions for complex societal challenges. The Daylight Academy has been a the foundation initiative since 2016, and the report includes a dedicated project portrait on what the new phase aims to achieve.
The past year also focused on revising the funding strategies across three areas:
- Daylight Research will focus on four societal topics identified through a participatory process: Right to daylight, future solar societies, daylight and global health and daylight versus urban densities. The funding program will have a dual focus on genuinely interdisciplinary research, and the translation of daylight knowledge into policy, design, and behaviour change.
- Ophthalmology continues its geographic focus on low- and middle-income countries, with a strengthened emphasis on institutional research capacity.
- Healthy Ageing takes a renewed direction, centring on the environments that shape older adults’ functional ability. An international interdisciplinary workshop will map neglected research questions in this space and shape the future funding program.
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