ETH Zurich - IDEA League Mobility Grants
Many postdoctoral and established researchers (“Oberassistent/innen”) at ETH Zurich have managed to obtain their own funding through fellowships or grants from various sources. These fellowships or grants allow them to conduct their own research projects and support them on their way towards academic independence.
ETH Zurich offers these postdoctoral and established researchers the opportunity to spend a research period at one or more of the external page IDEA League partner universities TU Delft, RWTH Aachen, Chalmers University and Politecnico di Milano. The research stays are between two weeks and three months long. The Mobility Grants are intended to expand the scientific portfolio and network of the researchers and should benefit their work at ETH Zurich or their career development. Thereby, the grants should enable and encourage the use of research infrastructure at other external page IDEA League universities and/or collaborations with researchers at these universities. A connection to research infrastructures is desirable, but not required. The research stay can also be used to start or work on joint projects. The Mobility Grant is competitive with only five grants available each year.
Scientific staff employed at ETH Zurich with a non-permanent contract (i.e. postdoctoral and established researchers), who have obtained their own fellowship or grant to work on their own project at ETH Zurich, are eligible to apply.
Holders of the following or similar fellowships/grants are eligible:
• ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Branco Weiss Fellowship
• SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship
• SNSF Ambizione Grant
• SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Return Grant
• SNSF PRIMA Grant
• AXA Fellows, Schmidt Science Fellows, EMBO Grantees, Banting Fellows.
This is not an exhaustive list; for fellowships/grants not on this list the Grants Office needs to be contacted to clarify eligibility.
Fellows/grantees are eligible to apply for a Mobility Grant also after their funding has expired, as long as they are still employed at ETH Zurich for the entire duration of the Mobility Grant. The research stay can be performed during the active fellowship/grant period or afterwards.
The research stay must be performed at one or more of the external page IDEA League partner universities of ETH Zurich:
• TU Delft, The Netherlands
• RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Chalmers University, Sweden
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
The planned research stay must be between two weeks and three months long. The grant can be split and more than one partner university can be visited for a maximum period of three months in total.
The Mobility Grant can only be granted once to any researcher during their employment at ETH Zurich.
It is possible to resubmit a Mobility Grant application following a rejection once.
A lump sum of CHF 5’000 will be awarded per month. A maximum of CHF 15’000 can be awarded per grant. For shorter stays, the funding will be adjusted to the duration of the research stay and the expected expenses.
The following costs may be covered through a Mobility Grant: consumables and other research costs, access/user/service fees for research infrastructure, machine time, technology platforms, travel and accommodation. No salaries can be paid by the Mobility Grant. The allocated funding can only be used for expenses during the research stay.
Requests can be submitted anytime. There are four cut off dates per year, after which applications will be evaluated: 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 December.
Applications must be written in English and sent directly by email as a single PDF file to the ETH Zurich Grants Office: . Please use the template provided, and add the letter(s) of commitment of the host(s) and the letter of support of the ETH host professor.
Applicants must contact the host(s) at the partner university/universities themselves. Applications without an invitation letter/letter of commitment of the host are not possible.
Questions and contact
ETH Zurich
Grants Office
Rämistrasse 101
8092
Zurich
