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: education-cisa(at)unige.ch.

Other sources of Mentoring

• Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes
• Mentorat relève University of Geneva

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

•  Après le doctorat

Gender Equality Offices:

• University of Geneva
• University of Fribourg
• University of Bern
• University of Lausanne
• ETH Zurich
• University of Zurich
• Univertity of Neuchâtel

 Events:

• Euresearch Events
• Events Here I go and University of Geneva Welcome Center