Explore the most popular fellowships and funding opportunities, including prizes and awards for PhD students.
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- Deadlines:
- 2 September 2024
- 2 December 2024
- Application toolkit
- BRIDGE Proof of Concept webpage
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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: 15 August 2024 (17:00 CEST)
- Application toolkit
- CYD PhD webpage
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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
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The EPFL Doc.Mobility program will terminate at the end of 2024, and until then there will be no further calls for applications. A new scheme is in preparation for 2025, details of which will be announced later in the year.
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EPFL researchers can apply for a short-term research exchange at Stanford University. he EPFL-Stanford Exchange Programme seeks to foster long-term collaborations between researchers of the two institutions in a variety of life science fields, with a particular emphasis on chemical biology and neuroscience.
- Deadline: call currently closed
- Application toolkit
- EPFL-Stanford webpage
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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.
- Deadline: September to December 2024 (depending on the country)
- Scholarship webpage
- EPFL presentation of 2023
Awards and Prizes
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EPFL Research Awards
You could be eligible for a personal prize! Find out more.
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PhD awards
Awards for EPFL PhD Students according to their research field or doctoral program.
More information
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Doctoral studies
All you need to know to obtain a PhD from EPFL.