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Calls
Below you find a selection of current calls for applications.
Here an overview of funding possibilities at the different academic career levels and further information about the Directory of Foundations are offered.
National as well as international offerings can be found in the Research Professional database as well as on Euraxess and Euresearch (European programmes, career funding, funding by domain). .
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Advanced Researchers
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The scheme targets researchers who have already established themselves as top independent research leaders. It is designed to allow outstanding research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects in Europe.
29.08.2019, next call opens on 14/05/2020
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Forschungsfonds für exzellente Nachwuchsforschende
Novartis Excellence Scholarship for Life Sciences / L. & Th. La Roche-Stiftung / Max Geldner-Stiftung
PhDs
Postdocs
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Aimed at junior researchers who pursue an academic career and have already proven their scientific excellence.
01.02.
01.09.
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Swiss citizens
med.
Further education grants for students and post-graduates in medicine, as well as graduates of the nursing science degree program.
01.02.
01.09.
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Postdocs
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Candidates with excellent research qualifications who are about to carry out a habilitation or similar achievement.
01.02.
01.09.
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Dr.med.
med.
01.09.
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PhDs
Postdocs
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Aimed at doctoral and early postdoctoral students who wish to improve their scientific profile by going abroad.
01.03.
01.09.
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MA, MSc
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Aimed at promising researchers who wish to write a doctoral thesis on a topic of their own choice in the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland.
10.03.
10.09.
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Postdocs
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Enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility.
11.09.2019
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Advanced Researchers
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Applications for two different funding lines. Funding line Research and Innovation: seed financing for research proposals. Funding line Teaching: for the development of attractive teaching or study programmes.
30.09.2019
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MA, MSc
PhDs
Postdocs
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Annual grants for the organization of a research retreat in order to present projects to your supervisor as well as to invited international experts.
01.02.
01.10.
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PhDs
Postdocs
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Funding for travel and accommodation costs (no honorarium) for guest speakers participating at a junior research retreat at the University of Basel.
01.02.
01.06.
01.10.
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PhDs
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Aimed at University of Basel PhD students who are parents. Each semester, support options are offered to help students complete their PhD within the allotted time. These life phase-specific support options include temporary supplementary assistance for childcare, hiring of an assistant or individual options within the scope of the set range of offerings. The get on track support options are offered during the respective semester dates.
01.04.
01.10.
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Female postdocs
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Aimed towards highly qualified female postdoctoral researchers in the early stage of motherhood. Support measures will be made available on a semester-by-semester basis to help focus and maintain high-quality research. The research support measures take the form of temporary relief from certain duties of assistants, for example teaching, project lead, academic administration, and laboratory work. The support measures are scheduled to fit approximately with the duration of semesters.
01.04.
01.10.
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PhDs
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Contribution towards the cost of printing for dissertations for candidates with a PhD degree of University of Basel
01.04.
01.10.
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Postdocs, Group Leaders
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Designed to support talented young Principal Investigators (2-7 years post-PhD experience) with an excellent research proposal. Up to €1.5 mio are available for projects of up to 5 years of duration.
16/10/2019
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Advanced Researchers, Group Leader
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Designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are consolidating their own independent research team (7-12 years post-PhD experience). Up to €2 mio are available for projects of up to 5 years duration.
next call opens on 24/10/2019
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Postdoc
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Aimed at excellent female researchers from Switzerland and abroad who aspire to a professorship in Switzerland. PRIMA grantees lead their own research project at a Swiss higher education institution.
01.11.
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Postdocs
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Aimed at young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution. The funding scheme would like to promote qualified researchers from Switzerland as well as excellent researchers from abroad. For medical practitioners: at least three years of clinical/practical experience after graduating (certificate as a specialist FMH is an advantage). Application may generally be submitted up to nine years after obtaining the medical licence (state examination).
01.11.
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MD, PhD
med.
Designed to enable research-oriented physicians to complete a second course of study at a Swiss scientific faculty leading to the conferral of a doctorate.
15.12.2019
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Advanced Researchers
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As of 2018, the SNSF professorships will be replaced by a new scheme that will be open to both current SNSF professors and newly appointed assistant professors. Grants under the new scheme will be awarded with or without salary, in analogy to the new Ambizione grants. Details of the new scheme are currently under discussion.
01.02.
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Postdocs
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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.
01.02.
01.08.
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med.
med.
Aimed at young medicine graduates who wish to do clinical research during one year in order to achieve the doctoral degree Dr.med.
01.05.
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MD, PhD
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The Käthe Zingg-Schwichtenberg Fund of the SAMS supports research projects in biomedical ethics. The 2019 call is thematically open and intended for junior researchers wishing to develop an original, independent research project and to facilitate the transition to the next step of their academic career.
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Dr. med.
med.
Aimed at fully trained and independent researchers, in particular inasmuch as they may be considered for positions still to be created, or to become vacant. By creating long-term research positions, the Professor Dr Max Cloëtta Foundation wishes to counteract the threatening lack of young researchers in Switzerland.
May 2020
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MD, PhD
med.
The SAMW and the Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung are jointly launching the funding programme «Young talents in clinical research». The aim of this programme is to enable young, interested medical doctors to have a first research experience by funding «protected time» for research and «project grants».
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med.
med.
Scholarships for a graduation of a special education in a well-known foreign institution to medical scientists during or immediate after their degree of medical specialist education. The scholarship is to be carried out in an innovative area or in a clinical ancillary science (e.g. ethics, IT, epidemiology, pharmacogenetics, forensic medicine, health communication ; listing not closed).
31.07.2019, next call in spring 2020
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as of PhD
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Grants which facilitate the transfer as well as the acquisition of methods and knowledge in research.
ongoing
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MA, MSc
PhDs
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Provide nonrecurring grants for special applications with regard to completing a doctorate/PhD or master’s degree.
ongoing
