Career Support
Mentoring
The doctoral school of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences offers a mentoring program to its members (full members). Newly enrolling students will be offered the possibility of requesting a mentor (in the same or different discipline) to accompany them during their PhD and help them improve their academic profile and professional prospects. The program consists primarily of (self-managed) meetings between mentors and mentees. Mentors can provide advice and share their experience with mentees on a range of subjects such as research funding, group management, publication strategy, visibility, teaching, recruitment, mobility and job-family harmonization. For more information, contact: .
Other sources of Mentoring
Useful Websites:
Funding (general)
- Commission de Recherche Université de Genève: Information about doctoral & postdoctoral mobility
- Prix-Bourses-Subsides Université de Genève
- Subsite Tremplin: Female advanced PhD students and researchers from the UNIGE
- Study grants service (by Swiss Canton)
- Swiss foundation registry
- Cogito Foundation
- Fondation Zdenek et Micaela Bakala
- Schmidheiny foundation
- Other private foundations here and here
- Financement et mises au concours Université de Fribourg
Doctoral Students - career funding
- DOC.CH: Humanities and social sciences (HSS)
- Doc.Mobility: Designed for doctoral students who wish to enhance their scientific profile by working at a research institution abroad.
- Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV): Female doctoral students and postdocs who had to interrupt or reduce their research activities due to family commitments.
Postdoctoral researchers - career funding
- Ambizione: Young researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution.
- SNSF professorships: Young researchers who intend to pursue an academic career and wish to establish their own team to realise a research project.
- Promotion of Young Scientists in Eastern Europe (PROMYS): Young researchers in Eastern Europe who have studied or worked in Switzerland for at least two years and would like to continue their careers in a new Eastern European member state (NMS) of the EU.
- Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV): Female doctoral students and postdocs who had to interrupt or reduce their research activities due to family commitments.
Various
Gender Equality Offices:
- University of Geneva
- University of Fribourg
- University of Bern
- University of Lausanne
- ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
- Univertity of Neuchâtel
Events: