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Fig. 15

From: 120 years of georesources research in Switzerland: the Swiss Geotechnical Commission (1899–2018)

Fig. 15

Annual SGTK funding, split into the fix annual contribution from the Federation (dark red) and project-based contributions from various sponsors. Values are adjusted for inflation according to the Swiss Consumer Price Index by the Federal Statistical Office (BFS). Data between 1899 and 1974 are from SNG annual reports (SNG 1900–1974), data between 1975 and 2018 are from unpublished SGTK annual reports. The fixed contribution contains funding from SNG/SCNAT (funding since 1899), from different federal offices (since 1970) and from ETH Zurich (since 2002). The SNG/SCNAT share was 100% from 1899 to 1969 and declined to 4–10% after 1970. The share of the federal offices ranged between 75 and 97% of the total fixed contribution. Since the early 1960s, the fixed contribution by the federation (incl. SCNAT & ETH Zurich) was in the order of 220 to 350 kCHF. The non-fixed contribution during that period ranged between ca. 25 and 400 kCHF with an average of about 95 kCHF in the 1960–1990s and ca. 205 kCHF after 1999. A substantial part (up to about half) of the non-fixed contribution came also from the federation, mainly for the production of the different sheets of the Hydrogeological Maps (Hydrogeologische Karte der Schweiz 1:100′000). The rest of the funding was raised through applied research projects for industry. Full time equivalents (FTE) are only given for the time after 1983, as SGTK was only able to finance own staff since then

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