How to Apply

OPEN CALL — until November 2025

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Have you identified a specific technical challenge that would benefit from collaboration with EPFL?

Eligibility Requirements

To submit a technical challenge, your organization must:

• Be legally incorporated as an NGO or INGO
  
  
• Have adequate personnel and in-country organizational structures, including staff, field offices, and reliable communication channels
  
  
• Be able to provide complementary inputs, particularly technical supervision and support for the relevant research activities
  
  
• Have proven access to local partners and strong, meaningful connections with the beneficiary communities
  
  
• Demonstrate a solid track record and commitment to working with communities and community-based organizations, in line with SDC’s Human Rights Policy
  
  
• Be open to collaborating with government institutions in LMICs and able to engage with relevant authorities at all levels
  
  
• Be based in or targeting a country listed among the Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/oda-eligibility-and-conditions/dac-list-of-oda-recipients.html#oda-recipients-list 

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• Address one of the following thematic areas: Healthcare, Climate Change, or Clean Energy
• Meet a clearly identified local need, with the local community involved and engaged in your organization’s activities

If you meet these requirements, please complete our initial template (excel file CALL to NGOs 2025) and send it to tiphaine.detoudeville@epfl.ch

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Participants’ testimonials

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Thanks to Tech4Dev, World Bicycle Relief partnered with EPFL experts to solve a technology problem previously beyond our reach. This unique program opened doors to a broad network of innovators, all striving to achieve social impact by applying technology to solve challenges in the Low- and Middle- Income Countries.

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‍Alisha Myers,

Global Director, Strategic Information and Innovation at World Bicycle Relief

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Collaborating with EPFL labs wouldn't be possible without Tech4Dev. Through their matchmaking and resources we were able to take our humanitarian innovation work to the next level.

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Joel Kaiser,

Humanitarian Innovation Adviser & Project manager at Medair

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Tech4Dev provides the opportunity for NGOs and EPFL research labs to jointly innovate on real life challenges, therefore developing solutions that leverage market forces for sustainability.

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Michael A. Hobbins,

Head of Unit, Research, Quality & Innovation at SolidarMed