- 20-25 participants each summer
- 8 weeks of lab experience
- Mentoring by faculty and scientific staff
- Access to scientific seminars
- Science related & personal development Friday afternoon workshops
- Closing symposium with poster session or presentations from all participants
- Rich program of social activities, including a day hike to Swiss alps with raclette, BBQs and a few possible excursions to points of interest such as CERN
- 2 months – July 3rd to August 27th 2026
- Students must be present during the entire program
- Application deadline – November 15th 12:00 midnight CET
- Application deadline – November 15th 12:00 midnight CET
- Please note that you must have your transcript, short answer essays and referee details ready to upload when you start to fill out the application.
- The topics for all the short answer essays are found in the FAQs.
- There is no option to save and come back to it. The referee will only receive their link to upload your letter when you submit your application. Make sure beforehand that they can provide your reference. Please keep this in mind when organizing your application.
- Join on-going research in a lab of the EPFL School of Life Sciences
- Learn new techniques while studying a research topic related to current health issues
- Improve critical thinking and experimental design
- Prepare for future independent research as a graduate student
- Experience the excitement and challenges of scientific research gaining insight into what a research career entails
- Each student receives CHF 3,600 for the two-month period which covers housing and living costs.
- Housing is reserved and paid for out of the stipends beforehand. You will have approximately 1700CHF left to live on.
- Students are housed in Lausanne near the EPFL campus.
- Students usually have single rooms and share a kitchen and bathroom facilities with their fellow SRP participants. We cannot make special housing arrangements.
- The majority of travel costs to and from Switzerland is covered. The program reimburses up to CHF 1,000 for overseas flights and CHF 500 for shorter distances
- Students working in Geneva labs will receive a larger stipend to cover most of their travel to and from the program in addition to their extra travel costs to go to Geneva to work.
Please see under “How to Apply”