The development of APES has been funded by:

Horizon Europe Project DUST
The further redesign and update of APES allowing to visualize multi-level governance processes was funded within a Horizon Europe research project in WP2 "Measuring the democratic quality of citizen participation in place-based policies for just sustainability transition" which was lead by Prof. Uwe Serdült (http://www.dustproject.eu)

Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland (http://www.ipz.uzh.ch/)
A redesign of APES, allowing to read in data from external Excel files, has been financed by Prof. Thomas Widmer, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch/)
The further development of APES was funded in terms of a 15-months research project, starting from May 1, 2006. The project run under the title: The Comparative Actor-Process-Event Scheme (CAPES): Towards a Cumulative Research in Political Science (SNF project number 112061).

Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Technical hardware, which was needed for the generation of APES, has been financially supported by Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch/)
The basis for APES was laid down during a NFP42 research project lead by Prof. Ulrich Klöti "Aussenpolitische Entscheidungsprozesse", starting from January 1, 1997 (SNF project number 46410).