Contract extensions in cases of force majeure

The following situations may justify a contractual extension, within the meaning of force majeure, pursuant to art 24. RA-UL:

a) Situations where it is impossible to gain access to, or where access is severely hampered by, infrastructures, resources, research data or persons essential to the progress of one's personal research, whether in Switzerland or abroad;

A) Situations where it is impossible to gain access to, or where access is severely hampered by, infrastructures, resources, research data or persons essential to the progress of one's personal research, whether in Switzerland or abroad.

b) Situations in which it is impossible for the person concerned to complete the qualifying or formal steps necessary for his/her’advancement or completion of their doctoral work, on the understanding that these are conditions required in the doctoral regulations of the faculty concerned.

In accordance with the established use of the concept of force majeure, these impossibilities must be due to an unforeseen event;nement à la fois imprévu, insurmontable, résultant de conditions extérieures and indeacute;pendant de la volont&e; du chercheur ou la chercheure.

The Règlement du 13 juin 2007 sur les assistants à l’Université de Lausanne s'applique, s’agissant du corps intermédiaire, aux fonctions engagées sur le fonds de l’Etat de Vaud, soit:

• the graduate assistants and graduate assistants;
• first assistants.

By analogy with the RA-UL, members of the intermediary corps financed by third-party funds may also apply for a contractual extension in the event of force majeure, on the same grounds, in accordance with the terms and conditions specific to their respective statutes. The functions concerned are:

• NSF or FE doctoral candidates
• senior researchers and senior SNSF researchers
• graduate assistants and FE graduate assistants
• first FE assistants (and funded by the SNSF for the Faculty of Biology and Medicine).