Explore the most popular fellowships and mobility funding opportunities, including short-term opportunities, prizes and awards for postdoctoral fellows.
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Fellowships
- Deadlines:
- 4 September 2023
- 4 December 2023
- 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: 23 February 2024 (next call to open in December 2023)
- Application toolkit
- CYD postdocs 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
The EMBO long-term fellowships are awarded for a period of up to two years and support post-doctoral research visits to laboratories throughout Europe and the world.
- Deadline: rolling call
- EMBO webpage
Postdoctoral fellowships in sustainable innovation, funded by MSCA.
- Deadline: call currently closed
- EPFLeaders4impact webpage
The EuroTech Universities Alliance invites highly talented experienced researchers to submit interdisciplinary collaborative research project proposals for one of the fellowships provided by the EuroTechPostdoc Programme.
- Deadline: call currently closed
- EuroTech Postdoc website
The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences.
- Deadline (pre-application): May 2024
- HFSP webpage
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.
Note: The participation of Switzerland in the MSCA Postdoctoral European Fellowships is excluded as a non-associated third country. However, Switzerland remains eligible to act as outgoing host institution in the MSCA Global Fellowship action.
- Deadline: 13 September 2023
- Application toolkit
- MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships webpage
Your first step towards scientific independence! The purpose of SNSF Ambizione grants is to enhance researchers’ scientific profile and to help them become scientifically independent in conducting their own research projects.
- EPFL internal deadline: contact your host
- SNSF deadline: 1 November 2023
- SNSF Ambizione webpage
- Application Toolkit
- Check out this video-interview to get advice from our grantees and professors!
Increase your research experience by making a stay abroad!
Postdoc.Mobility fellowships are aimed at researchers who have done a doctorate and who wish to pursue an academic career in Switzerland. A research stay abroad enables such researchers to acquire more in-depth knowledge, increases their scientific independence and enhances their research profile.
- Deadline: 2 August 2023
- SNSF Postdoc.Mobility webpage
Transitional measure replacing ERC Consolidator Grants.
The SNSF Starting Grants is an integrative call which covers the SNSF Professorial Fellowships. This grant allows outstanding researchers to lead an independent research project in any disciplines and a team of researchers in CH.
Funding: max. CHF 1.8M for max. 5 years (including applicant’s salary, if applicable). Eligibility: max. 8 years after PhD + min. 3 years of research after PhD.
- EPFL Internal deadline: contact your host institute
- SNSF deadline: call currently closed
- EPFL Toolkit
- SNSF 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.
- Deadline: September to December 2023 (depending on the country)
- Scholarship webpage
- EPFL presentation of 2022
Short-term opportunities
Link up with scientists from abroad!
Scientific Exchanges is aimed at researchers who want to host their own scientific event in Switzerland, invite colleagues from abroad for a research visit to Switzerland, or visit their colleagues in another country.
- Deadline: rolling call (min 4 months before the event)
- SNSF Scientific Exchanges 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.
- Deadline: September to December 2023 (depending on the country)
- Scholarship webpage
- EPFL presentation of 2022
Compendia of funding opportunities
Most popular funding instruments for postdoctoral fellows in Switzerland.
Swiss and international grant-making foundations, funding research projects, researchers’ career and science communication.
Awards and Prizes
EPFL Research Awards
You could be eligible for a personal prize! Find out more.