ETH Pioneer Fellowship in Switzerland 2025
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ETH Pioneer Fellowship in Switzerland 2025
The ETH Pioneer Fellowship in Switzerland is a prestigious program open to all nationals, offering fully funded fellowships for the academic year 2024-25. This fellowship, which lasts between 10 to 18 months, is available for Master’s, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral students. The selection process is highly competitive, aiming to identify applicants with exceptional potential and entrepreneurial spirit. Note that re-applications are not permitted if a candidate is rejected.
The ETH Pioneer Fellowship 2024 features two distinct programs:
1. Deep-Tech Incubation Program**: This initiative supports entrepreneurial ETH students and researchers in transforming their research-based ideas and technologies into marketable products and services, with the goal of launching a successful ETH spin-off company.
2. Social Impact Incubation Program**: This program aids ETH students and researchers in developing products and services from their research that aim to create a positive social impact, focusing on building scalable ETH spin-off companies.
Benefits of Pioneer Fellowship
The ETH Pioneer Fellowship Program will cover all the expenses of selected candidates. Successful applicants will be awarded a lump sum of 150’000 CHF to cover the applicant’s salary costs and other costs to support the project. The appropriate salary level depends on the applicant’s level of education and other costs expected in the project. As scientific employees at ETH (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitende), Pioneer Fellows will be employed on a grant.
Apart from salaries, the fellowship should finance most aspects of your project. It includes
General Expenses:
- Equipment and project-specific consumables/materials
- Measurement costs at facilities like FIRST, ScopeM, EPIC…
- Software licenses for specialized software not yet covered by Research Group.
- Costs of pre-clinical trials
- Outsourcing of activities, such as writing websites, software, market reports, external consultants, etc.
Travel / Field Expenses and Industry Fairs:
- Industry engagement or partnership events (e.g., BioEurope, Hannover Messe), Customer visits, presentations to investors…
- All expenses are expressly dedicated to the project and not for private purposes.
- All expense receipts will need to be submitted to the Finance Department to justify your expenses.
Tuition Fees for Certificate of Advanced Studies:
- A tuition fee of CHF 9’200 can be paid by a direct grant from CAS ETH for a single candidate in Entrepreneurial Leadership in Technology Ventures (CAS ELTV) as enrollment is mandatory.
- Enrollment of a second candidate is optional if a team of 2 persons applies. If they choose to apply, ieLab will contribute 50% of the tuition fee.
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Eligibility for Pioneer Fellowship
- Candidates must have a master’s or doctoral degree from ETH Zurich.
- A team of 1-2 entrepreneurs who want to commercialize the results of their research (master’s or doctoral thesis or postdoctoral research) at ETH.
- A promising business case
- A project in which the company is not yet involved.
- The project and the team are fully supported by the host professor at ETH.
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Application
- A brief project summary that should review the planned activities, market situation, and innovation potential. This summary should not contain confidential information.
- A detailed description of the idea based on the research results of a master’s or doctoral thesis at ETH Zurich. Special emphasis is placed on innovative aspects of efficiency and customer benefits, products, or services. This includes some evidence of market relevance, a basic business model with initial details on a commercialization strategy, and technical and market analysis. patent applications and software (IP) are made available for licensing to fellowships as well as future spin-offs, etc. Milestones and more detailed Explanation of expenses. Expected results are clearly defined.
- A detailed list of financial requirements
- Candidate’s full CV, including a list of relevant publications and a brief outline of their career goals
- Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (if any) to both candidates and the host professor.
- A signed letter of support from the host professor explaining why and how s/he wishes to support the candidate and how s/he evaluates the proposed project idea. Describing infrastructure made accessible.
- 2-minute-long presentation video of the project and motivation. Must be submitted via Polybox in MP4 format.
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Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Scholarships and Fellowships |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 01 September,2024 |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Organizer | ETH Zurich |