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phd candidate salaries in Switzerland

• Doctoral students in Switzerland receive, as a guideline, between CHF 3,920 and CHF 6,690 gross per month, based on a 100% employment rate.
• The median salary (50% earn more and 50% earn less) is CHF 53,000 gross per year and CHF 4,417 per month.
• Depending on the institution and field of research and depending on how the PhD is funded (SNF-scholarship, assistanceship etc.), the loan can have a wide range. PhD candidates in exact sciences (computer science, mathematics, physics, ...) and medecine are usually better paid than PhD candidates in life sciences, chemistry, arts and humanities. However, the salary and the working conditions depend on the exact contract you have.
• Please consider, that PhD candidates often have only a 50% employment.

Salary comparison

In comparison to a doctoral candidates, a masters graduate who is employed outside the university, earns significantly more:

• The annual gross salary (median) for master graduates at university level (all economic sectors, all positions, all regions), 1 year after graduation in 2020 is: 78’400 CHF
• The annual gross salary (median) for master graduates from universities of applied sciences 1 year after graduation in 2020 is: 84’000 CHF

But a graduated PhD then starts with a higher salary:

• The annual gross salary (median) for PhDs 1 year after graduation in 2020 is: 93’100 CHF

Source: FOS / ETHZ / lohnanalyse.ch

• Usual working time in Switzerland: 42 hours per week.
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Switzerland: SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022

Grants for young researchers who want to have an expert scientific training and to develop their academic career in Switzerland .

Switzerland is considered a non-associated third country in Horizon Europe. Based on a government mandate, the Swiss National Science Foundation  ( SNSF ) is this year launching a new call for applications to its transitional measure " SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships ." The call is aimed at researchers of all nationalities who wanted to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF).

This funding scheme will offer applicants with a PhD and no more than eight years of postdoctoral experience a position at a non-commercial research institution in Switzerland for 12-24 months.

The grant includes the postdoctoral fellow’s salary as well as social security contributions and contributions to research and conference costs.

Researchers whose application for an SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021 was rejected may submit a revised application, involving the same host institution, provided they achieved an evaluation score of at least 6.3 out of 9. The same regulation applies under the MSCA-PF, where at least 70% of the maximum score is required.

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Deadline: December 1st, 2022 .

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Salary adjustments for scientific assistants

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Good news for doctoral students: the Executive Board is lifting the present linking of their salaries to those of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Doctoral students, postdocs and scientific assistants I and II are therefore to receive the cost-of-living adjustment defined by the ETH Board for 2024. Moreover, the standard rate for doctoral students is rising by a total of 5%.

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As you’ll recall, it was unclear at the end of 2022 whether doctoral students at ETH Zurich would receive a cost-of-living adjustment in the new year in the same way as other ETH staff. The reason was that these salaries are based on those of the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, which at that time had not yet issued any statement concerning a possible salary adjustment ( see Internal news of 19 December 2022 ).

A few weeks later the SNSF confirmed that the research staff funded by it would receive a cost-of-living adjustment of 2.5% from 1 March 2023. The ETH Executive Board also agreed to this increase, albeit in the knowledge that this would not solve the problem permanently. This is now set to change as the salaries of scientific assistants (doctoral students and postdocs) are no longer linked to those of the SNSF. This means that in 2024 these ETH employees will also receive the cost-of-living adjustment set by the ETH Board, which is due to be announced by the ETH Board in early December 2023. The additional costs entailed by this for the departments will be financed by central transfers of funds.

Increase in standard rate

And there’s another piece of good news: the standard rate for doctoral students is being raised (including the cost-of-living adjustment) by 5.0%. At CHF 48,216 in the first year, this has until now been the lowest salary rate among doctoral students (see chart). This rate has hitherto been based on that of the SNSF and has remained unchanged since 2014.

“The Executive Board is aware that the standard rate has not been raised for some time and wishes to redress this situation. Around a third of all our doctoral students are paid according to this rate. By increasing it by 5% we wish to support these employees in the current challenging economic environment,” says Julia Dannath, Vice President for Personnel Development and Leadership.

“We are very grateful to the Executive Board for this gesture of support for doctoral students,” says Charles Ledoux, President of the Academic Association of Scientific Staff at ETH Zurich (AVETH). “The living conditions of doctoral students earning the standard rate are challenging, particularly among those with families. The reasons include high rents, transport costs, high costs of external childcare and the lack of any cost-of-living adjustment from 2015 until 2022. Any form of assistance is therefore most welcome.”

Higher hourly wage for teaching assistants

The Rectorate already increased the wage rate for teaching assistants back in September from CHF 28 to CHF 30.70 per hour. The new rate will apply as of the Spring Semester 2024, i.e. from 1 February 2024.

Continuation of working group

In order to find long-term solutions to the question of how ETH should structure its salary model in the future, Vice President Julia Dannath convened a working group with representatives from the departments and AVETH in January 2023. The group will be continuing its work in 2024 and wishes to highlight further options for the salary system of doctoral students and postdocs.

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• Only ZNZ group leaders can apply. Students cannot apply directly.
• A ZNZ PhD Grant can only fund doctoral student salaries. Equipment, consumables and other research costs must be covered by other sources.
• Funding is possible for up to three years salary according to Swiss National Science Foundation salary standards. ZNZ grants can only cover a part of the student's PhD period - the applicant must confirm complementary funding to ensure that the entire PhD work can be carried out. As a general rule, applicants apply for funding of 1-2 years of PhD salaries.
• One applicant can be funded with maximally 3 years of PhD salary within 5 years.
• The project proposal should be clearly and simply written and be intelligible to readers in other disciplines. The significance and originality of the proposal should be stated.

Please use this form (DOC, 51 KB) for your application: The application must contain the following items (min. font size 11):

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• Research Part of max. 4 pages (incl. background, specific aims and    experimental design & preliminary data)
• Reference List (max. 1 page)
• Milestones and Time Plan (max. 1 page)
• Lay Summary (max. 200 words)
• Desired funding period and budget (max. 1 page)
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• It should also include a cover letter, a short curriculum vitae (including a publication list) of the ZNZ group leader and the student (when known) and  diploma report (if available).
• The next application deadline is 1 October 2024. On average, funding of four years of doctoral salaries is available. The complete application in English should be sent as one PDF file including all required documents by the ZNZ group leader directly to the ZNZ office . Simultaneous submission to other granting agencies and other grants already supporting the suggested project must be mentioned in the proposal. Incomplete applications cannot be considered.

The selection criteria are the applicant's achievements, the qualifications of the PhD candidate and the quality/originality of the project. Only applications from early stage non-tenured group leaders are accepted. Female applicants are particularly welcome.

• The prospective student must participate in the ZNZ PhD Program and present his/her research at the annual ZNZ Symposia.  

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There are a wide range of research funding schemes on offer, including project funding, career funding, science communication, infrastructures and international collaboration.

In addition, the SNSF funds large long-term research programs on topics of strategic importance for the future of Swiss science, economy and society: National Research Programmes (NRP) and National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR).

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NSF provides compensation and benefits programs that provide support for employees in various ways including, competitive pay, medical and dental insurance, onsite health and wellness support, dependent care programs and more.

NSF employee salaries are determined by OPM’s General Schedule, Salaries for General Schedule, Special Rate, and Senior Executive Service  pay tables . General Schedule positions receive the locality pay rate for Washington, D.C.

NSF’s Excepted Service salary rates are listed below.

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As an NSF employee, you may be eligible to take advantage of the many civil service benefits offered to federal employees. Many of the benefits are cost shared by the government, keeping your cost down. Our benefits are comparable to and often better than those of many employers in private industry. Our fringe benefits program offers:

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• Low-cost  life insurance coverage ;
• Comprehensive  retirement  benefits;
• Tax-deferred  Thrift Savings Plan ;
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• 13 to 26 days  annual (vacation) leave  per year, based on length of service;
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• 10 paid  holidays  per year;
• Flexible work schedule;
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• Overtime and compensatory time off; and
• Injury compensation if injured on the job.

Visit the  NSF Human Resources Management site  for more information.

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Anti-semitic attitudes of the mass public: estimates and explanations based on a survey of the moscow oblast.

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JAMES L. GIBSON, RAYMOND M. DUCH, ANTI-SEMITIC ATTITUDES OF THE MASS PUBLIC: ESTIMATES AND EXPLANATIONS BASED ON A SURVEY OF THE MOSCOW OBLAST, Public Opinion Quarterly , Volume 56, Issue 1, SPRING 1992, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1086/269293

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In this article we examine anti-Semitism as expressed by a sample of residents of the Moscow Oblast (Soviet Union). Based on a survey conducted in 1920, we begin by describing anti-Jewish prejudice and support for official discrimination against Jews. We discover a surprisingly low level of expressed anti-Semitism among these Soviet respondents and virtually no support for state policies that discriminate against Jews. At the same time, many of the conventional hypotheses predicting anti-Semitism are supported in the Soviet case. Anti-Semitism is concentrated among those with lower levels of education, those whose personal financial condition is deteriorating, and those who oppose further democratization of the Soviet Union. We do not take these findings as evidence that anti-Semitism is a trivial problem in the Soviet Union but, rather, suggest that efforts to combat anti-Jewish movements would likely receive considerable support from ordinary Soviet people.

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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Individual or collaborative, disciplinary or interdisciplinary – realise your ideas with the SNSF. We can finance your research project for one to four years.

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Project funding is the SNSF’s largest funding scheme by far. Every year, we invest more than half a billion Swiss francs in new projects. Under this scheme, you can conduct independent research on topics of your own choice. This enables research that is relevant, creative and diverse – the perfect framework for gaining new insights or resolving practice-related questions.

For experienced researchers

Applications can be submitted by experienced researchers working at a university or another institution in Switzerland that is eligible to receive funding. Of course, you have the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary or collaborative projects. Many research questions can only be adequately addressed in this way.

In collaborative projects with three or more applicants, one applicant may work at a research institute abroad if their expertise is necessary for the project.

Up to 1 million francs per year

The SNSF grant covers your staff's salaries, research costs and funding for scientific collaboration. Your own salary is financed by your institution.

The SNSF awards a maximum of 250,000 francs annually per applicant per project and a maximum of 1 million francs annually for the project as a whole. Applicants can freely divide the grant among themselves. The minimum grant for a project is 100,000 francs; the minimum duration is 1 year.

Further opportunities under project funding

Please also note the following funding options: The SNSF has concluded agreements with partner organisations in many countries to facilitate collaborative projects with foreign researchers. These funds are also provided under project funding.

Weave/Lead Agency/International Co-Investigator Scheme

Project funding also includes the participation of Swiss researchers in European consortium projects (e.g. ERA-Net).

European Partnerships and other multilateral initiatives

Eligibility requirements - applicants

In SNSF project funding, you can submit an application as an individual or together with other researchers. All applicants must meet the personal requirements and have the necessary scientific qualifications.

Personal requirements

As an applicant, you must actively do scientific work (this includes also teaching and managerial activities) for at least 50% (0.5 FTE) of your time at an eligible research institution in Switzerland. Exceptions are possible for persons conducting clinical research, for employees of museums or archives, and for self-employed researchers. In collaborative projects with three or more applicants, one applicant may work at a research institution abroad, provided that their expertise is necessary for the project and the collaboration demonstrably adds value.

Scientific qualifications

After obtaining your doctorate (PhD), you have conducted scientific research for at least four years. If you do not have a doctorate, the four-year period normally starts after at least three years of full-time research work. This also applies to doctors without a PhD. As an applicant, you are in a position to carry out a research project on your own responsibility and to manage the staff involved in it.

Two or more applicants

If two or more researchers submit a proposal together, they are jointly responsible for the project. Each applicant makes a substantial contribution that is described in the application. As a rule, hierarchical dependencies between applicants are not permitted.

Project partners

In addition to other applicants, project partners can also work on your project. These researchers do part of the research work, but bear no responsibility. They may not describe the funding from the SNSF as funding received individually.

Project partners do not have to meet the eligibility requirements for applicants and can therefore also work abroad.

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Formal requirements.

Submit your application in full and by the given deadline. The application must comply with the SNSF regulations in all respects.

In mathematics, natural sciences, engineering, biology, medicine, psychology, economics and political science, the application must be written in English. In other fields, it is also permissible to submit applications in an official Swiss language.

The SNSF Research Council encourages applicants to submit their proposals (i.e., the research plan and, if applicable, revision notes) for project funding in English. The use of English as a submission language bolsters the external peer review process, a key step in the evaluation procedure. It assists in broadening the scope of potential reviewers, thereby benefiting applicants by increasing the pool of appropriate reviewers. In doing so, the Research Council strengthens its commitment to the underlying goal of this procedure, namely the competent and fair evaluation of proposals.

Budget size and project duration

For each applicant in a project, the SNSF awards, on average, a maximum of 250,000 francs per year over the duration of the grant, and a maximum of 1 million francs per year for the project as a whole. Applicants can freely divide the contribution among themselves. A project can last a maximum of four years, resulting in a grant of up to 4 million francs. The minimum grant for a project is 100,000 francs; the minimum duration is one year.

Collaborative and interdisciplinary projects

With its project funding, the SNSF also explicitly aims to fund collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.

Collaborative projects require the expertise and scientific contribution of several researchers, who jointly submit an application. Their collaboration is essential for achieving the research objectives and creates added value.

Are elements from two or more disciplines necessary to achieve the research objectives? And is the combination of these elements, for example theories, methods and concepts, not yet commonplace? Designate this type of project as "interdisciplinary" in your application. It will be assessed by a dedicated evaluation panel that takes into account the specific characteristics of interdisciplinary projects.

Two or more grants at the same time

You can only participate as an applicant in one project funding application per call. However, you may receive up to three project funding grants that overlap in time. This is permissible if at least one of them is approved for a Lead Agency/Weave project, for the International Co-Investigator Scheme or for a European consortium project (for example ERA-Net).

Any SNSF career funding grant you have received in parallel will count as a project funding grant. This also applies to awarded and ongoing Sinergia grants.

The topics of the overlapping research projects must be clearly differentiated from each other. Please provide the corresponding information when submitting the application. In addition, you must show that you will make a substantial personal contribution to all projects.

As an applicant, you are obliged to inform the SNSF about other ongoing submitted applications to the SNSF or to third parties and about ongoing grants you have received from the SNSF or from third parties. We do not consider proposals for research projects that are already fully funded by third parties.

Eligible costs

You can apply for staff salaries and research costs, as well as funds for scientific collaboration, networking and communication. Your own salary is paid by your institution. Please note: as a grant recipient, you may not be employed at the same time as a staff member in a project funded by the SNSF.

If three or more applicants are involved, they can charge the costs for coordinating the research project to the SNSF grant.

You can find out in detail which research costs the SNSF covers here:

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The following supplementary measures can be applied for during the funding period of the project:

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How to apply

From registration to entering the budget: how do you submit your application to the SNSF and what do you need to bear in mind? Find out more on this page:

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Please also refer to the guidelines for the research plan and the data management plan. All SNSF-funded projects are also subject to our principles on Open Access publications.

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Submit your application on the SNSF Portal. Weave/Lead Agency applications with an external lead agency are an exception. Please continue to enter such applications in mySNF.

Evaluation procedure

How do we evaluate your application? Find out more about the procedure and evaluation criteria here:

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For collaborative projects, we also evaluate how the collaboration is designed and organised in view of the common research goals. For interdisciplinary projects, we pay attention to how the different disciplines complement each other in terms of their theories, methods and concepts.

Regulations

The conditions for project funding can be found here:

• Project Funding Regulations (PDF)

FAQ – Number of proposals and grants

Which grants from which funding schemes count as project funding grants in the sense of article 13.1 of the project funding regulations.

Grants from the following funding schemes count towards the limit of concurrent grants in project funding: Ambizione, Eccellenza, European Partnerships and other multilateral initiatives (except Belmont Forum and transatlantic platform for social sciences and humanities), Practice to Science, PRIMA, Projects on health and wellbeing, Project funding, Sinergia, SNSF Professorships and Weave / Lead Agency / International Co-Investigator Scheme.

See the list of all funding schemes here (PDF) .

Can I submit 2 proposals in project funding for the same deadline?

Can i resubmit a rejected sinergia application.

Yes, you can resubmit a rejected Sinergia application, but now as a project funding application. Researchers were able to submit applications for funding under Sinergia one last time in April 2023. In summer 2023, the SNSF integrated the Sinergia programme into its project funding scheme. By doing so, we have grouped together collaborative and interdisciplinary research in our main funding scheme in order to provide even better support for this type of project.

Can I submit a Lead Agency/WEAVE proposal at the SNSF and another project funding proposal at the same time?

No, the SNSF will only evaluate one proposal per applicant per call. But you can submit a Lead Agency/WEAVE proposal at a partner agency and an SNSF project at the same time.

I have a Sinergia grant and two project funding grants ongoing. Can I submit another proposal?

No. Approved or ongoing Sinergia grants count as project funding grants.

I have a Sinergia and a project funding and a Lead Agency grant ongoing. Can I submit another proposal?

No. Approved or ongoing Sinergia grants, Lead Agency/Weave/International Co-Investigator Scheme, and EU Consortia count as project funding grants.

I have three ongoing projects. When can I submit a new proposal?

You may apply for a project grant for the period after expiry of a support measure by the SNSF that was subject to the restrictions applicable to project funding. The evaluation of a proposal takes 6 months. You must start the project within 1 year of receiving the decision.

My project has been extended for 6 months thanks to a project completion grant. Is the extension phase affected by the SNSF restrictions with regard to multiple parallel grants?

Faq – applicants, in a proposal with 3 or more applicants, can one applicant be from abroad even if the snsf does not have a bilateral agreement (such as weave) with that country.

Yes, this is possible.

In a proposal with 3 or more applicants, can there be two applicants from outside Switzerland even if the SNSF does not have bilateral agreements (such as WEAVE) with the funding organisations in these countries?

No, only one applicant from abroad is allowed.

In a proposal with 3 or more applicants, can one applicant be from a country with which the SNSF has a bilateral agreement, even if it is not a WEAVE/Lead Agency/International Co-Investigator Scheme proposal?

In principle, no. Proposals with applicants from a country with which the SNSF has bilateral agreements must be submitted as WEAVE/Lead Agency/International Co-Investigator Scheme proposals. Exceptions are possible for proposals in disciplines that are excluded by specific bilateral agreements. Such exclusions exist for agreements with the US and the UK. Contact the SNSF Office for clarification.

In a WEAVE, Lead Agency (LA) or International Co-Investigator Scheme (ICIS) proposal, can a Swiss corresponding applicant and the applicant from the partner country have another foreign applicant from a Non-WEAVE/LA/ICIS country?

No. For WEAVE/LA/ICIS, the respective agreements apply. An additional applicant from a Non-WEAVE/LA/ICIS country is not allowed.

In a collaborative project proposal with 2 or more applicants, are there any additional eligibility criteria for applicants?

Yes, hierarchical dependencies between applicants are not permitted, even if all applicants involved meet all other eligibility requirements.

FAQ – Coordination costs for collaborative grants

Can i (partially) employ a collaborator who coordinates the collaborative research funded by a project funding grant.

In principle, yes. There is no limit on the amount that can be granted for such costs, but they must be reasonable.

FAQ – Budget limits

Does the 250 kchf limit per applicant and year apply strictly to each applicant.

No, the applicants can distribute the funding amongst themselves. The total average spending level must respect the 250 kCHF per applicant and year limit.

When budgeting, can I exceed the 250 kCHF limit per applicant and year at the beginning of the grant if the average spending level respects the limit over the full duration of the grant?

Yes. The 250 kCHF limit per applicant and year must be respected as an average over the grant duration. This allows a higher spending level at the start of the grant (i.e. to purchase equipment) compensated by a lower spending level towards the end of the grant.

FAQ – What information can be submitted

Can i submit a cover letter.

No, for equality reasons. The content of a cover letter is not standardised and may be a complement to the research plan.

Can I submit a letter of support?

No. Not only the applicants, but also the project partners must create an account on the portal and enter their personal data themselves. By working directly on the proposal, they also demonstrate their commitment of actively participating in the planned project. This replaces a letter of support.