Fully Funded EPFLglobaLeaders Fellowship Programme 2021-22

Fully Funded EPFLglobaLeaders Fellowship Programme 2021-22

EPFL
Ph.D. Degree/Fellowships

Deadline: 15 2021 April
Study in: Switzerland
Fellowship starts 1 Nov 2021-1 March 2022.

Brief description:

EPFLglobaLeaders is a new fellowship that is doctoral funding early phase researchers to be leaders in the change towards sustainable societies. Forty-eight doctoral fellows will benefit from a multifaceted training program, including a secondment within the sector that is non-academic.

Host Institution(s):

EPFL campuses in Lausanne, Geneva, Neuchâtel, Valais, or Fribourg

Field of research:

Any of the 21 programs which can be doctoral at EPFL

A number of honors:

48

Target team:

Students from any nation

Scholarship value/inclusions/duration:

The EPFLglobaLeaders fellowship consists of a contribution that is month-to-month the salary for the doctoral prospect of EUR 1,935 and is given for a period of forty-eight months. The thesis director must complement the EU share towards the wage regarding the candidate that is doctoral-funding cannot come from other H2020 / Horizon Europe funding sources) and pay for one other associated costs (research costs, equipment, travel expenses, conferences, etc.).

The duration of an EPFLglobaLeaders fellowship is a doctoral of 48 months (4 years).

Eligibility:

The eligibility that is after should be fulfilled:

1. Citizens of any nationality might apply.

2. Applicants must hold a degree that is master’s comparable) before they signal their employment contract.

3. Applicants must be Early Stage Researchers (ESR); by the full time they sign their employment agreement, they need not need to complete more than four many years of full-time research, as well as must not have been awarded a diploma that is doctoral.

4. Applicants must fulfill the MSCA flexibility that is transnational and should never have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Switzerland for more than a year within the three years instantly ahead of the call’s deadline. Exceptions to these rules are possible to be able to make sure equal possibilities for candidates whoever job that is scientifically interrupted. Therefore, the time invested as part of an operation for getting refugee status underneath the Geneva Convention, compulsory service that is national maternity leave, and/or short stays such as example holidays is not taken into consideration.

Application instructions:

The application procedure for EPFLglobaLeaders is incorporated into the EPFL Doctoral class selection procedure. Consequently, candidates to your EPFLglobaLeaders programme must initially proceed with the process that is same all candidates for a Ph.D. at EPFL and relate to the applying guidelines supplied by the doctoral programme that they have chosen.

Each programme is the doctoral unique application due date; consequently, candidates must check out the website associated with the relevant programme for detail by detailed information along with the due date overview. To become considered for the EPFLglobaLeaders programme, candidates must submit their application ahead of the application due date of 15 2021, 17:00 CET April.

It is important to read the EPFLglobalLeaders directions and look at the website that is officiallink found below) to gain access to the application form as well as for detail by detailed information about how to apply because of this scholarship.