Scholarship of Excellence
Course of the program
Calendar
Selection criteria
Documents to submit
Dates of public lessons : please book
Course of the program
A scientific committee composed of Professors of the University of Geneva and appointed by the Rectorate, selects the candidates. international experts are consulted.
In concrete terms, the chosen candidates will benefit from a position as "maître assistante" for a period of three years, attached directly to faculties’ deans offices in order to ensure the independence of the researchers. Whilst they are in principle full-time, these posts entail at most 20 % teaching or clinical work. During the programme the grantholders should be capable of satisfying, for instance, the conditions for obtaining a grant for a professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Find out more about these conditions
The programme also includes monitoring of the scientific projects and career planning of the beneficiaries.
Calendar
- Next competition launch: May
- Next closing date for applications: 31st July (see below)
- Information sent to candidates: beginning of December
- Test presentations by selected candidates: February (the year after)
- Beginning of assignment: from April (to be agreed with the candidate)
Selection criteria
The application will allow the organisers to judge the candidate’s potential in terms of:
- Personal and scientific ability to plan and successfully complete a project over three years;
- Potential for a high-level university career;
- Quality of her scientific research;
- Scientific independence;
- Mobility;
- Good scientific and personal integration in the unit in which she will work.
Please read the description for download below, including the detailed selection criteria.
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Documents to submit
Application can be written in French or in English. It should be sent by post to the Equal Opportunites Office 31st July final deadline (postmark authentic) and should contain the following documents:
- description of a scientific project / research plan over three years (in 3 pages) ;
- an abstract of the project (about 10 lines) ;
- description of the means required for the research before obtaining the actual funds (we remind you that this project has no research funds available);
- letter of motivation, including a short reflection on the candidate’s proposed career outline;
- letter from a professor in the unit concerned, confirming that the candidate can be integrated into this unit;
- letter of recommendation (apart from the current employer);
- detailed curriculum vitae;
- list of publications with, if possible, review ranking in the field;
- the names of four renowned experts of the field, having no direct connection with the candidate or with her research (these people do not need to be informed).
To be sent to : University of Geneva, Bureau de l’égalité, Rectorat, 24 rue du Général Dufour, CH 1211 Geneva 4.
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Dates of public lessons : please book
Candidates selected in the short-list will be asked to give a public lesson after which the Scholarship of Excellence will be appointed by the Scientific Committee. Deans and Heads of concerned units will be invited to these lessons and are therefore requested to book already the following dates in their agenda:
February 5th, 2013 from 9:00 to 12:00
February 8th, 2013 from 1 pm to 5 pm