Scholarships and career programmes – Page 2

Swarovski Foundation – Creatives for our Future 2025

A global mentorship and grant program designed with advisor the United Nations Office for Partnerships to identify and accelerate the next generation of creative leaders in sustainability.

Creatives for Our Future builds on the Swarovski Foundation’s commitment to foster creativity to drive positive change through cultural, educational and advocacy collaborations addressing human rights, environmental issues, inequality, and wellbeing. The program leverages our position to combine investment and education with our network crossing borders and industries.

The program is open to all creatives worldwide aged 21 to 30 at the time of application from across disciplines including fashion, design, art, architecture and engineering – with no limit to creative medium.

Successful applicants should have a keen interest in, demonstration of, or exemplary potential to use the creative process to accelerate awareness, technologies or solutions for sustainable development.

Fondation suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier

On behalf of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, swissuniversities manages the secretariat of the Fondation Suisse selection committee.

The Fondation suisse enables students, doctoral students and researchers with Swiss nationality or with a C-residence permit to reside at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP) for the duration of one semester or one year (with the possibility of renewal).

Information regarding the admission requirements and the selection procedure are available on the Fondation suisse website. Register here www.ciup.fr

The Swiss Foundation will inform the applicants directly in the first half of July about the results of the decisions of the Evaluation Commission.

Collegium Helveticum – Early-Career Fellowships

Early-Career Fellows are early-career researchers working in academic or artistic disciplines at postdoc or equivalent level (in the case of art school graduates). The Collegium Helveticum welcomes applicants from an international context as well as scholars and artists with a background in the Collegium Helveticum’s funding institutions, ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts.

Elligibility

To be eligible, you will need a doctorate in an academic discipline or a master’s degree from an art school. The degree must have been obtained not longer than 5 years prior to the start of the fellowship. An official confirmation of completion of degree (PhD/Master) from the respective university or art school is strictly required. Junior fellowships are awarded to candidates who do not have a permanent academic position but do have a proven track record.

Associated Fellows

Before applying, applicants for a early-career fellowship are asked to contact a professor at ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich or Zurich University of the Arts whose work is relevant to the proposed fellowship project and who agrees to engage as an Associated Fellow. The professor supports the junior fellowship application with a short letter of support detailing why and how they will support the junior fellow’s research project and how they can help them to build links with Zurich’s university and art community.

Funding

Early-Career Fellows receive a grant in the form of a full-salaried post at ETH Zurich for the duration of the fellowship. They spend ten months at the Collegium Helveticum, starting on 1 September.

IKEA Foundation Switzerland

The Ikea Foundation Switzerland has supported the discussion between the practical and the theoretical with trend-setting tasks in the sectors of architecture, design and arts and crafts for more than four decades. The foundation is pursuing this objective by providing grants to young talented designers from Switzerland who wish to follow a further education programme abroad. The foundation also awards financial grants to projects.

The primary aim of the Ikea Foundation Switzerland is to support young talent.

The Ikea Foundation Switzerland is equipped with three support instruments:

Scholarships

The Ikea Foundation Switzerland provides selected applicants with scholarships for further education. Further education ABROAD is considered exclusively and only if the applicant has already completed an educational programme at Bachelor’s level (or similar). It is also assumed that the beneficiaries have experience of professional practice.

Work or project grants

The Ikea Foundation Switzerland provides financial grants to creative projects such as the development of a prototype for a design object or the presentation of design drafts to a public exhibition. Supporting a project is considered if the intended solution of the task clearly shows an innovative approach.

Grants for events or institutions

The Ikea Foundation Switzerland provides financial grants to institutions that follow the objectives of creative further education in the supported areas, by organising competitions presided over by a panel, for example, and granting prizes or awards.

What we promote

Architecture

architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban construction and room planning

Design

furniture or lighting design, product design, textile design

Arts and crafts

ceramics, jewellery, pottery and glassware, textiles

Applications

The primary aim of the Ikea Foundation Switzerland is to support young talent. The following age restrictions are therefore set for applications:

Scholarships: before 28th birthday
Project or work grants: before 32nd birthday
For events: The event must be aimed specifically and exclusively at participants who are in education.

At present, an annual budget of CHF 600,000 is available for foundation grants. The Ikea Foundation Switzerland endorses between 50 and 60 applications per year.

Allegro Stiftung

Förderung der Musik im In- und Ausland, wobei die Förderung direkt oder indirekt auf dem Wege der Unterstützung von Institutionen mit gleichartiger Zweckrichtung erfolgen kann.

Die Stiftung unterstüzt insbesondere Musikerinnen oder Musiker bei Aus- und Weiterbildung, leitstet Werkbeiträge, schafft Instrumente an, unterhält zweckgerichtete Liegenschaften und organisiert Veranstaltungen organisieren.

Kontakt

Allegro-Stiftung c/o Dr. Beat Zelger
Alter Postplatz 6
CH-6370 Stans

Tel: 041 610 31 56

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan

Are you interested in taking your research to Japan and working with leading groups in Japanese universities and other institutions?

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers to citizens and permanent residents of Switzerland, who are currently affiliated to a Swiss institution. All fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences are included under the programme.

To provide opportunities for excellent postdoctoral researchers from other countries to conduct, under the guidance of their hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. The program allows such researchers to advance their own research while contributing to the progress of research in Japan and the counterpart countries.

Fellowships last from 12 up to 24 months and must start between 1 July and 30 November 2023.

In 2023 the SNSF can propose two researchers to the JSPS.

The necessary information is available in the SNSF News room and applications should be submitted to the SNSF.

Willy-Bretscher-Fellowships

Die Zentralbibliothek Zürich fördert mit Willy-Bretscher-Fellowships Forschende, die in ihrem Vorhaben einen Digital-Humanities-Ansatz verfolgen, einen zeitlichen Schwerpunkt im 20. Jahrhundert setzen und sich auf Bestände oder Daten der Zentralbibliothek Zürich stützen.

Mit Willy-Bretscher-Fellowships (monatliche Stipendien von CHF 4’000) fördert die Zentralbibliothek Zürich Forschende, die in ihrem Vorhaben einen Digital Humanities-Ansatz verfolgen, einen zeitlichen Schwerpunkt im 20. Jahrhundert setzen und sich auf Bestände oder Daten der Zentralbibliothek Zürich stützen.

Die mögliche Dauer der Fellowships beträgt 3 bis 12 Monate.

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists for the Academic Year 2026-2027

Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries. Recipients are selected by the awarding body, the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).

The Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships are aimed at young researchers from abroad who have completed a master’s degree or PhD and at foreign artists holding a bachelor’s degree.

The research scholarship is available to post-graduate researchers in any discipline (who hold a master’s degree as a minimum) who are planning to come to Switzerland to pursue research or further studies at doctoral or post-doctoral level.

Types of scholarship

Research scholarships are awarded for research or study at all Swiss cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and the two federal institutes of technology, as well as the four research institutes. Only candidates nominated by an academic mentor at one of these higher education institutions will be considered.
Art scholarships are open to art students wishing to pursue an initial master’s degree in Switzerland. Art scholarships are awarded for study at any Swiss conservatory or university of the arts. This scholarship is available to students from a limited number of countries only.

Fulbright Foreign Student Program

Grants for studying in the USA for the academic year 2026-2027.

This is the grant you would like to apply for, if you want to pursue

a Master’s or Ph.D. degree
non-degree coursework
or Ph.D. research

The Grants are four to ten months in length and not renewable. They are to be used toward the cost of tuition and other academic expenses. In general, a grant for one academic year is about $20,000. However the final grant amount awarded per grantee depends on the number of finalists and on the availability of funds.

Candidates with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from universities of applied sciences and arts are particularly encouraged to apply.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grants

Grants for doing research in the USA for the academic year 2024-2025.

This is a non-degree, post-doctoral award program for researchers, university lecturers, and experts from academic institutions in Switzerland. Candidates from Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts are particularly welcome to apply.

You can apply if you wish to go to the United States to:

conduct post-doctoral research
lecture,
or pursue combined lecturing and research.

Grants are not for the principal purpose of:

attending conferences
completing doctoral dissertations
travel and consultation at multiple institutions

Grants are available for the period between August 2023 and July 2024 for periods of a minimum of three months to ten months. The grant allows you to do research and/or teach in all fields at any recognized institution of higher education in the United States.