Application

Doctoral candidates and postdocs: How to proceed if you want to apply for a Sciex research stay?

To apply for Sciex you must be a doctoral candidate or a postdoc at an eligible institution in your home country.

Sciex finances research stays; Sciex is not a study grant.

Fellowship Application

1. The Supervisor of a doctoral candidate or the mentor of a PostDoc, the potential Fellow and a research partner in Switzerland agree on an exchange project (Note: For a partnership with a Swiss University, you can find a Swiss partner on www.proff.ch. Otherwise, consult the website of the respective eligible Swiss Host Institutions.). 
2. The Supervisor checks whether the sending institution is eligible and whether it agrees to a research placement of the potential Fellow.
3. The Swiss partner agrees on becoming a "Host Mentor" for the Sciex Fellow. The Swiss Host Mentor is the Main Applicant (see G-1 : Guidelines for Main Applicants, PDF) in a Sciex Fellowship Application.
4. The Swiss partner checks whether his Swiss institution is eligible and whether it has signed a Performance Agreement.
5. The Main Applicant coordinates the filling in of the forms « F-1 », « F-2a », « F-2b »,
    « F-3a », « F-3b » plus annexes.
6. The supervisor fills in « F-2a » and sends it to the Main Applicant.
7. The Junior Researcher "Fellow" fills in « F-1 » & « T-2 » and sends them to the Main Applicant.
8. The sending Institution fills in form « F-3a », sends a scan to the main applicant and the original form with signature to CRUS – Sciex-3, Postbox 607 – CH-3000 Bern 9.
   (Postal address for courier service: CRUS - Sennweg 2 - CH-3012 Bern)
9. The Host Institution fills in form « F-3b » and sends a scan to the main applicant and the original form with signature to CRUS – Sciex-3, Postbox 607 – CH-3000 Bern 9.
   (Postal address for courier service: CRUS - Sennweg 2 - CH-3012 Bern)
   
10. If all forms are complete, correct and precise, the Main Applicant sends them in one mail to sciex(at)crus.ch, with the reference line "Sciex Proposal Forms". 
11. Sciex will notify the Main Applicant about the decision of the Steering Committee.
12. The Main Applicant will contact the Charter & Code Supporter of his/her institution for Contractual Arrangements.

Evaluation Procedure

The selection of candidates is based exclusively on the scientific quality of the followship proposal. Details on the evaluation procedure

Short-term Visits (STV)

3 Short-term Visits are provided for both Mentors from the NMS and from Switzerland of an approved Sciex project. The aims of these Short-term Visits are: 

• Mentoring visits to support the Fellow and
• Networking of the Mentors (intensify their cooperation and discuss joint research projects).

Further detailed information

For the financing of unconnected STV please consult the following website: http://www.snf.ch/E/funding/individuals/shortvisits/Pages/default.aspx 

Timing for Proposal Processing