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Funding for doctoral or post-doctoral studies

The aim of the Graduate Campus and the Research Department is to help up-and-coming academics build and develop their careers, both academic and non-academic.

The Research Department organises targeted workshops and supports up-and-coming researchers in their search for funding for research projects, exchange grants, participation in scientific symposia and even project writing.

The Graduate Campus offers career advice and training to UNIL doctoral students and post-docs. The Graduate Campus also provides advice on thesis supervision and support for post-docs.

If you are employed at UNIL, in the first two cases your contract includes social security contributions, you are insured for AVS/AI/APG/AC, you contribute to unemployment insurance and you are covered in the event of an accident.

  1. Or, you are hired as an assistant to a professor.
    Employment at UNIL
  2. Or, you are employed on a research project submitted by your supervisor: FNS Open Project, European Project, Foundation Project.
  3. Either you work alongside your studies and do your thesis as a sideline to your profession (doctor, lawyer, teacher, etc.), you need to make sure that you are covered in the event of an accident during your thesis.
  4. Alternatively, you may be starting out on a self-financing basis (many PhDs are abandoned or last a long time and hinder a potential academic career). It is advisable to discuss this with your future thesis supervisor and to meet the research support teams in your faculties or research department.

Few foundations in Switzerland offer dissertation grants, and very rarely for early-stage dissertations. From the 2nd year onwards, it is possible to obtain small funds, but you will have to manage the progress of your thesis and the search for funds in parallel. Since these are donations, you will have to pay AVS contributions and take out accident insurance, and you will not be entitled to unemployment benefits easily.

The Fondations pour l'Université de Lausanne, Sophie Afenduli, Agassiz, Chuard Schmid, Herbette, Lagonico, Zerilli Marimo, etc. distribute small amounts (maximum CHF 20,000), sometimes at the end of a thesis.

Co-supervision grants

The Office of the Secretary of State for Education, Research and Innovation (SEFRI) is funding cotutelle thesis projects between a Swiss university and a European university (including Israel). A grant of CHF 10,000 is available to support the mobility of the doctoral student and the thesis supervisor. Deadline for applications 31 March, with specific eligibility conditions.

Scholarships for Switzerland or abroad

Grant to go abroad

Country of Origin Scholarship to promote women in science

Search for existing positions in Switzerland and abroad

As a post-doc it is important to quickly demonstrate your scientific independence.

There is, of course, the possibility of joining a research team advertising a post-doc position. But be careful about your scientific independence. In such positions, it is important to quickly develop your own research projects in order to remain competitive in the academic field.

Open positions:

Search for fellowships for post docs

Competitive research funding offering the opportunity to develop your own project and sometimes even to have staff. Please note that some of these programmes require international mobility, but not all:

Research funding database: ResearchConnect

  • FNS carrer https://www.snf.ch/fr/48YVbNHGCW52J2TW/page/encouragement/carrieres
    Contact and advice :
    Rolande Tardy
    Amphip 351.1
    Lausanne 1015 Lausanne
     
  • Horizon Europe : Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
    Contact and advice     :
    Anne-Emmanuelle de Crousaz, MA
    Head of Euresearch, UNIL-CHUV
    Amphipôle Amphip le 351.2
    Lausanne 1015 Lausanne

Other fellowships

When research results can be valorised and have potential for industry, it is possible to finance the transition phase of this project towards application.

https://www.innosuisse.admin.ch/fr/offres-dencouragement 

If a Proof of Concept phase is required:

If you want to found your startup:

If you would like to work with industry on national or international projects:
https://www.innosuisse.admin.ch/fr/offres-dencouragement

The pre-award discharge measure for MAs and Pasts frees up time to write a research project for the SNSF or another funding body.

Study trips, fieldwork, archives, participation in conferences

The Swiss house at the CIUP, Swiss Foundation / Le Corbusier Pavilion

UNIL students and researchers may be required to spend a study or research period in a higher education or research establishment in Paris/Ile-de-France..

Advantageous accommodation options are available at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. The Swiss house à la CIUP, la Fondation suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier, has 46 individual rooms of 16 m2.

In the eligibility criteria, the following factors must be taken into account:

  • to be of Swiss nationality or hold a C permit,
  • have completed a course of study or research of at least 2 months in a higher education or research establishment in Paris/Ile-de-France or an internship as part of a course of study,
  • have completed a course of study or research of at least 2 months in a higher education or research establishment in Paris/Ile-de-France or an internship as part of a course of study,
  • have completed a course of study or research of at least 2 months in a higher education or research establishment in Paris/Ile-de-France or an internship as part of a course of study
  • have completed at least three years at BA level in a higher education institution.

Admission to the CIUP is selective; you will find the admission requirements, fees, application deadline, contact and other information on the websites:

Swiss Institute in Rome

Purpose: 
Each year, the Swiss Institute of Rome welcomes five or six Swiss artists working in one of the following fields: fine arts, applied arts, architecture, music, literature. Members are chosen by the Institute's Foundation Board on the advice of its Artistic Commission.

Priority areas of support: 
Artists are provided with a room or flat and an individual studio. The stay, which generally lasts one year, is free of charge. However, members are responsible for their own living expenses. The Institute also makes a flat and a workshop available for a maximum of three months' holiday.

The Institute's members have the right to use the Institute's premises free of charge.

Exclusion criteria: 
Age limit: 40 years.

Applications: 
The application form for a stay in a studio à the Swiss Institute of Rome can êute;be télé à from September (specifying the field of activityé). Artists who are interested can send a small work dossier with a programme of work for Rome directly to the institute.

Submission date:
Duration of the session: mid-September à mid-July.
Sending date: 31 January.

Website: http://www.istitutosvizzero.it/
E-mail: roma@istitutosvizzero.it
Téléphone: +39 64 81 42 34
Fax: +39 64 89 04 076

Istituto svizzero di Roma
Villa Maraini
Via Ludovisi 48
IT-00187 Rom

Brocher Foundation

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