These grants are to support collaborative inter-university cutting-edge research for students with top academic credentials studying towards an engineering degree (with engineering understood as the use of scientific principles for the design, construction or production of physical or virtual structures or systems)*, or towards a degree in all medieval disciplines, as well as towards a degree in digital humanities at the intersection of medieval disciplines and computer or data science.

* This definition excludes biology, chemistry, physics and all life science.

The grant aims to encourage research collaboration between two universities which must be located in two different countries, namely the home university of the candidate and a hosting university or research institute, one of the two being preferably situated in Switzerland. The grant will contribute to cover local living costs of the candidate while visiting in person for the entire period the hosting university or research institute exclusively and travel costs with a flat rate economy-class return airfare/train ticket from the home university to the hosting university.

“The candidacy will be taken into consideration only if the applicant will not receive any other source of funding included assistant salary.”

Please note that this grant will not cover tuition, visiting student, hosting or laboratory nor any other fees.

THE FOUNDATION WILL NOT GIVE ANY INFORMATION, JUSTIFICATION NOR REASON FOR THE DECISIONS CONCERNING THE ACCEPTANCE OR NOT OF AN APPLICATION.

Please consider that no reply will be given to such requests.

We wish to inform applicants that, due to a significant increase in the number of applications to our fellowship programs, there is a high probability that students whose grade point average is not in the upper tier for their institution(s) of study will not be selected.

Stipend duration

Six to twelve months.

Grant

A stipend of 2’500, — Swiss francs per month to defray local living expenses at the hosting university or research institute, plus flat rate economy-class return airfare/train ticket from the home university to the hosting university.

No other fees and/or university overhead (tuition fees or visiting fees) will be covered.

The last installment of the grant (CHF 2’500.-) will be paid only upon receipt of a statement sent directly from the thesis advisor at the home university (the same who signed the project), confirming that the attendance was successfully completed and of the electronic copy of the thesis.

Questions that are clearly answered by grant rules above will receive no answer; also, requests for exceptions to grant rules above will not be taken into consideration.