Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETZ Zurich) in Zurich falls Master’s and Doctoral students to apply for ETH4D Visiting Student Grants. Generally, ETH4D Visiting Student Grants are the opportunity for students to participate in the fully funded research in Switzerland for a period of 2-3 months.

Purpose

The ETH4D Visiting Student Grants aim at bringing a collaborating doctoral or master student from low and middle-income countries to ETH Zurich for a research stay of 2-3 months in Switzerland. Moreover, the student will spend the exchange stay at an ETH partner laboratory to learn new methodologies, technics or develop his/her research project in a new academic setting. Moreover, she or he will expand her or his academic network.

Funding

The ETH4D Visiting Student Grants in Switzerland covers the following expenses up to a maximum of 10’000 CHF

• Living allowance for the duration of the research stay: 2.3k CHF per month.
• Economy roundtrip ticket (max. 2k CHF) as well as visa fees

Eligibilities 

Eligible are doctoral or advanced masters students who are registered at a university or research institute in a country listed in the OECD/DAC list 2018-​​2020. However, students from lower-income countries preferred. Furthermore, it is a requirement that the doctoral or master student and the hosting ETH professor have been in contact before the research stay.

Application 

The ETH professor hosting the doctoral/MSc student should send the application as the applications directly sent by the student will not be considered. However, the application needs to be sent in one single pdf document to [email protected]. The deadline for the next round of applications is 30 April 2020.

Conditions 

The ETH4D Visiting Student Grants are only available for stays in laboratories of ETH4D members. In case another ETH professor would like to host a student through this grant scheme; he or she becomes automatically an ETH4D member. In particular, application Documents for an ETH4D Student Exchange Grant comprise

• Completed Application Form.
• Motivation letter of the doctoral/MSc student as well as the CV of the doctoral/MSc student, including publication list.
• Support letter of the hosting ETH professor.

See the application requirements.