Fund your PhD at EPFL

Have you earned your spurs as a young researcher and come up with an idea for developing your research results into a marketable product?

• Deadlines:
  • 2 September 2024
  • 2 December 2024
• Application toolkit
• BRIDGE Proof of Concept webpage

The CYD Fellowships is a talent program for cyber-defence research.  It offers Master Thesis, Doctoral, and Distinguished Postdoctoral fellowships to candidates with an outstanding academic and, if applicable, professional track record.

• Deadline: 26 February 2025 (17:00 CET)
• Application toolkit
• CYD PhD webpage

CYD proof of concept Fellowships aim to support applied research leading towards an innovative product or service with the intention of making a real impact and evaluating the potential for commercialization of such products or services.

• Deadline: rolling call
• Application toolkit
• CYD POC webpage

The EPFL Doc.Mobility program will terminate at the end of 2024, and until then there will be no further calls for applications. A new scheme is in preparation for 2025, details of which will be announced later in the year.

• EPFL Doc.Mobility webpage

EPFL researchers can apply for a short-term research exchange at Stanford University. he EPFL-Stanford Exchange Programme seeks to foster long-term collaborations between researchers of the two institutions in a variety of life science fields, with a particular emphasis on chemical biology and neuroscience.

• Deadline: call currently closed
• Application toolkit
• EPFL-Stanford webpage

As part of the Engineering for Humanitarian Action Initiative (EHA) initiative, the goal of the Humanitarian Action Fellowship is to explore joint research ideas between ETH Zurich, EPFL and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) or to support the ICRC to pilot, use or scale research findings from completed Humanitarian Action Challenges (HAC) projects.

• Deadline: rolling call
• Application toolkit
• Humanitarian Action Fellowship webpage

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships are available to post-graduate researchers from over 180 other countries in any discipline who are planning to come to Switzerland to pursue research or further studies at pre-doctoral, doctoral or post-doctoral level. Each application must be backed by a professor.

• Deadline: September to December 2024 (depending on the country) 
• Scholarship webpage
• EPFL presentation of 2023