ETH Zurich Research Grants
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ETH Zurich promotes world-class research that may result in fundamental new knowledge or technologies via a competitive internal Research Grant Program. In the focus of the funding program are grant applications that venture into yet uncharted territory and involve highly creative and original as well as high-risk approaches with the potential for exciting new discoveries in all disciplines represented at the ETH Zurich.
Grant applications that involve scientifically sound but relatively generic investigations complementing ongoing work in the PI's laboratory are automatically assigned low priority.
ETH Zurich Research Grants should not be the primary and certainly not the only source of research funding for any ETH Zurich group. Rather, they should be a source of seed funding for step-out projects with high visibility and impact.
ETH Zurich Research Grants ("ETH Grants")
These grants are primarily intended to support highly innovative graduate student projects involving a single or two ETH Principal Investigators. Collaborations between colleagues that generate an added value are particularly welcome. Larger, interdisciplinary proposals involving several ETH Zurich groups and with a clear scientific added value with respect to the combined contributions are also eligible for consideration.
The typical ETH Grant will comprise one doctoral student with funding for the salary and for material costs, including travel to a scientific congress for the doctoral student. Requests for more than one doctoral student per Principal Investigator need to be well justified. Post-doctoral research positions will be funded only exceptionally. The maximum funding level for a project requesting support for a single ETH Zurich research group is CHF 500’000 over 3 years. Funding for interdisciplinary endeavors involving two or more ETH research groups is limited to a maximum of CHF 1’500’000 per project.
ETH Grants are not meant to be a substitute for regular SNSF grants but should complement SNSF funding in the area of high-risk / high reward research. Therefore, ETH Grant Principal Investigators are, in general, required to have at least one active SNSF grant or to hold one other substantial, peer-reviewed, active external grant, e.g., from the EU (for exceptions, see guidelines (PDF, 62 KB)). A Principal Investigator must also not submit more than one ETH Grant application per call.
Requirements
Detailed information on requirements for ETH Grant Applications is given in the guidelines. Applications not complying with the guidelines (PDF, 62 KB) will be rejected on formal grounds.
Submission procedure
Applications must be submitted electronically in pdf-format using the dedicated on-line system. Applicants must use the provided templates and follow the naming conventions for the individual documents. More information on the submission procedure is provided here.
Deadlines
Submission deadlines are March 1 and September 1 at 11.59 p.m. CET.
When to expect a decision
Notification of decisions made by the Vice President Research will normally be sent to the Principal Investigator within approximately 4 months of the submission deadline.
Personnel costs (valid 2018)
For doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, please use the following standard rates (percentage of employment: 100):
Doctoral students
- first year: kCHF 53.9
- second year: kCHF 55.6
- third year: kCHF 57.3
- Total: kCHF 166.8
Postdoctoral researchers
- first year: kCHF 100.3
- second year: kCHF 105.3
- Total: kCHF 205.6
The rates include 14.5 % and 15.5 % social security overhead for doctoral students and postdocs, respectively. For other participants, please obtain from the personnel department (Personalabteilung) a salary estimate and enclose the calculation sheets in the proposal.
Successful projects will be awarded a lump sum based on salary costs valid at the time of approval. Adjustments of salary scales might be made in adherence to the general ETH Domain remuneration policy as defined by the ETH Board. Any extra costs associated with salary scale adjustments effected during the project funding period must be borne by the applicants.
Further information
For further information on the ETH Zurich Research Grant Program, please contact ethgrants@sl.ethz.ch
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