Fund your PhD at EPFL

Have you earned your spurs as a young researcher and come up with an idea for developing your research results into a marketable product?

• Call information: link to the memento
• Application toolkit
• BRIDGE Proof of Concept webpage

The CYD Fellowships is a talent program for cyber-defence research.  It offers Master Thesis, Doctoral, and Distinguished Postdoctoral fellowships to candidates with an outstanding academic and, if applicable, professional track record.

• Deadline: the 13^th call will open on 3 December 2025
• Application toolkit
• CYD PhD Fellowship webpage

CYD proof of concept Fellowships aim to support applied research leading towards an innovative product or service with the intention of making a real impact and evaluating the potential for commercialization of such products or services.

• Deadline: rolling call
• Application toolkit
• CYD POC webpage

This grant is aimed at doctoral candidates enrolled at EPFL who wish to improve their scientific and professional profile through a research stay in an academic institution abroad.

• EPFL Doc.Mobility webpage

As part of the Engineering for Humanitarian Action Initiative (EHA) initiative, the goal of the Humanitarian Action Fellowship is to explore joint research ideas between ETH Zurich, EPFL and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) or to support the ICRC to pilot, use or scale research findings from completed Humanitarian Action Challenges (HAC) projects.

• Deadline: rolling call
• Application toolkit
• Humanitarian Action Fellowship webpage

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships are available to post-graduate researchers from over 180 other countries in any discipline who are planning to come to Switzerland to pursue research or further studies at pre-doctoral, doctoral or post-doctoral level. Each application must be backed by a professor.

• Call information:  link to EPFL information page
• Scholarship webpage
• Contact at EPFL Swiss excellence scholarship: [email protected]