National Research Programme NRP 85 "Mental Health of Adolescents"

NRP 85 "Mental Health of Adolescents" is a Swiss National Research Programme funding research to improve mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention approaches for adolescents in Switzerland. It will support projects that advance the evidence base on scalable interventions and investigate systemic risk and protective factors in formally organised environments. Projects are encouraged to engage non-academic partners and to produce policy-relevant, practice-oriented outputs. The programme has total funding of 7 million Swiss francs and a research phase lasting four years.

Research project funding from the programme's total budget of 7 million Swiss francs.

Researchers at universities and other institutions may apply; projects are encouraged to engage non-academic partners and projects in research area 1 require a non-academic project partner and transdisciplinary elements.

Submit an expression of interest via the SNSF Portal by 2026-11-24, 5 p.m. Swiss local time; submission of a full proposal via the SNSF Portal by 2027-01-19, 5 p.m. Swiss local time.