SCIEX is aimed at PhD students and postdocs affiliated with a Bulgarian institute who wish to do a research secondment in a non-commercial research institute in Switzerland.
Submission deadline: 13.03.2025 17:00 CET
SCIEX is being extended: The call will remain open until 13 March 2025. The following eligibility criteria have been slightly adapted:
- Applicants of Bulgarian nationality are no longer required to be resident in Bulgaria at the time of submission. However, an affiliation with a Bulgarian research institution is still required.
- Originally, postdoctoral researchers had to be employed at a Bulgarian institute at the time of submission. Now this must be the case at the latest by the start of the research stay. Applicants must be able to provide confirmation from the Bulgarian institution when submitting their application.
All the other eligibility criteria remain the same. For further information, please consult the call document.
SCIEX is one of the three funding programmes offered by the SNSF as part of the second Swiss contribution to selected EU member states. The mandate for the implementation of SCIEX was given by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and is co-financed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.
This funding programme offers PhD students and postdoctoral researchers the possibility of carrying out research projects on topics of their choice across all disciplines. The objectives of SCIEX are to further scientific knowledge and development, to improve and deepen these researchers’ scientific skills, to foster research collaborations and to strengthen scientific networking between Switzerland and Bulgaria.
The SCIEX fellowships cover the grantee’s salary, including social security contributions and research funds (e.g. conference costs, etc.).
The participation requirements are detailed in the call document, which is already available via the link at the bottom of the page. The call opens on 1 November 2024 and closes on 13 March 2025.
Participation Requirements:
Proposals for the SCIEX Fellowships 2025 may be submitted by PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines.
For PhD students, a SCIEX Fellowship is awarded for a minimum of six months and a maximum of twenty-four months, and for postdoctoral researchers it is awarded for a minimum of six months and a maximum of eighteen months.
More information about the participation requirements can be found in the SCIEX Call Document (PDF).
Application Submission
Prepare your SCIEX application in accordance with the guidelines and submit it using the mySNF platform. We recommend starting your application as early as possible to familiarise yourself with the requirements. We open the application page three months before the submission deadline. Please note the conditions and requirements specified in the call document.
Important: Please create your CV according to the format provided on the SNSF Portal well before the submission deadline. For your first login, you will need a SWITCH-edu ID and an ORCID ID, which may take a few days to obtain.
mySNF user account
If you are submitting an application to the SNSF for the first time, you must first register on mySNF and request a user account. We will then send you your login information by email. Please note that you must request your user account at least one month before the submission deadline. Otherwise, we cannot guarantee timely access to mySNF. The user account will remain available to you for all future applications and for the lifetime management of approved projects.
Evaluation procedure
You can find more information on the evaluation procedure at the following links:
Please also consult the Funding Regulations and the Organisational Regulations of the National Research Council:
- Funding Regulations & General implementation regulations for the Funding Regulations
- Organisational Regulations of the National Research Council (PDF)
Watch videos from previous programmes on our YouTube channel.