Category Archives: Funding infos

Information session dedicated to funding opportunities for postdoctoral fellowships and mobility, 27 Nov. 2025 (registration needed)

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Dear colleagues,

The UNIL Research Service, in collaboration with the EPFL Research Office, is pleased to invite you to an information session dedicated to funding opportunities for postdoctoral fellowships and mobility.

Date: 27 November 2025
Time: 12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location:  in person, UNIL – Geopolis 1620

Topics will include:

·         Introduction and presentation of the UNIL Research Office
·         Databases of funding opportunities and alternative sources of support beyond SNSF and EU programmes
·         Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF)
·         SNSF funding schemes
·         Q&A session with research funding experts from UNIL and EPFL

Presentations will be delivered in French, with slides in English. The Q&A session will be held in both French and English.

We warmly encourage all researchers considering a postdoctoral experience or international mobility to attend.

>> Registration

Meilleures salutations

Service de la recherche
UNIL | Université de Lausanne
Direction
Quartier UNIL- Sorge | Bâtiment Amphipôle
CH-1015 Lausanne |
Tél. +41 21 692 23 55
Tél (nccr) : +41 21 692 60 45

https://www.unil.ch/researcher/fr/home.html

FBM Transition Grants, deadline Sept 15, 2025

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The FBM Transition Grants are intended to encourage the academic development of female researchers employed by the CHUV, UNIL and Unisanté. The beneficiary receives a grant of CHF 100,000 total (over 24 months).

For more information on the application process please visit the transition grants web page in English or French.

Deadline for applications: September 15th.

DreSc. Slavica Masina
Chargée des missions
Dicastère recherche et innovation
Faculté de biologie et de médecine, Décanat
Quartier UNIL-CHUV
Rue du Bugnon 21
1011 Lausanne

ERC Advanced Grant 2025

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The ERC Advanced Grant 2025 (ERC-2025-ADG) call opened 22 May 2025 with a submission deadline on 28 Aug 2025. Swiss-based researchers are eligible to apply.  

Researchers of all career stages who have a track-record of significant research achievements and are leaders in their field may apply for this 5-year grant (budget up to EUR 2.5 M). 

>> Link to the call

Information and advice (buget, Institutional Support Letter, etc.) :  Anne-Emmanuelle.deCrousaz@unil.ch

FREG sponsorship for PhD students

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PhD students at the CIG can apply to the FREG funds (Fund for Research and Education in Genetics) which sponsors their participation to either an international conference or course once during their thesis. (up to CHF 2’500,-).

To apply, email Nathalie Clerc and CC your PI, specifying the name of the course/meeting, its date and location.

After the meeting/course the grantee will need to write a short report in the form of a letter to the FREG Committee describing the benefits for him/her attending the meeting/course (a template will be provided).

InnoTREK

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InnoTREK: a financial support to create your start-up

You are a UNIL-CHUV researcher who would like to create a start-up and need a financial support to start? Apply for a one-year grant of CHF 100’000.- to launch your UNIL-CHUV spin-off !

Applications for the InnoTREK grant can be submitted throughout the year to PACTT, the UNIL-CHUV Technology Transfer Office. Project selection will take place twice in the year in the spring and autumn. As part of the InnoPACTT financial support, the InnoTREK grant is designed to accelerate innovation and UNIL-CHUV spin-off creation, and to encourage researchers with innovative ideas to jump into the entrepreneurship adventure.