Applications Invited for ETH4D Faculty Exchange Grants

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About the Organization

Despite unprecedented progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years, around 800 million people still live on less than two dollars per day, without adequate access to food, drinking water, electricity, mobility, and other basic services.

At the same time, many countries struggling with extreme poverty are currently among the most dynamic economies in the world, creating new opportunities to use innovative approaches to address social and environmental challenges.

The rapid expansion of mobile phone technology and solar energy have had tremendous impacts on development over the past ten years. Now technologies such as digitization, 3D-printing, block chain, remote sensing, and robotics might offer the same promise.

However, much of the potential of technological innovation for addressing the persistent challenges of those in poverty remains untapped. ETH4D believes that universities have a responsibility to ensure that technological progress benefits the global population.

ETH4D aims to combine technological innovation with a profound understanding of people’s behavior and their environments to identify new solutions for improving the lives of poor people. ETH4D therefore supports research, which combines the knowledge and skills of engineering, the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and promotes the collaboration between scientific research, civil society, industry and policy.

ETH4D aims to educate the future leaders of sustainable development. ETH4D will train a new generation of engineers and natural scientists able to develop, implement and scale world-changing innovations with a global perspective.

About the Grant

ETH4D Faculty Exchange Grants allows ETH scientists to bring collaborators from low- and middle-income countries to ETH Zurich for a research stay or a workshop/conference attendance. It funds ETH scientists to travel to partner institutions in low- and middle-income countries for lectures, courses and collaboration meetings.

ETH4D Visiting Scientist Grant:

ETH4D provides grants for visiting scientists, belonging to an academic institution in low and lower-middle income countries. The visiting scientist may visit ETH Zurich to conduct a short research stay or to attend a conference or workshop organised by ETH Zurich scientists.

ETH4D Teaching Stay Grant:

ETH4D supports teaching activities of ETH scientists or ETH emeriti at partner institutions in low and lower-middle income countries.  Activities include delivering lectures, courses or seminars; or attending collaboration meetings.

Eligibility

Visiting Scientist Grant:

To invite colleagues from lower-income countries to visit ETH Zurich for a research stay or to attend a conference or workshop.

Main applicant: Professors of ETH Zurich who are hired at least in a 50% position. The call is open to researchers from all disciplines of the ETH domain.

Grant sum: max. 10 kCHF

Eligibility:

• Visiting scientist must be affiliated at an institution in a country classified under the categories according to the external page DAC-list of the OECD. Preference will be given to “least developed”, "low-income” and “lower-middle income” countries.
• Has existing or planned research collaborations with the hosting professor
• Proven academic qualifications

Teaching Stay Grant:

To support teaching activities of ETH scientists (including doctoral candidates and senior scientists) or ETH professors emeriti at partner institutions in countries listed in the external page OECD DAC List. The call is open to researchers from all disciplines of the ETH domain.

Grant sum: max. 5k CHF

How to Apply

Visiting Scientist Grant:

Application Documents:

• Budget (using budget template)
• A single PDF containing the following:
• Description of the Research Stay or Conference/Workshop attendance (1-2 pages)
• Timeline in the form of a Gantt chart
• CVs of all involved persons (1-2 pages each)
• Letter of support from ETH professor/main applicant

Teaching Stay Grant:

Application Documents:

• Budget (using Downloadbudget template (XLSX, 15 KB)), including a detailed statement of the funds requested and all funding sources, as well the applicants' and partners’ contribution to the costs (in-cash and/or in-kind)
• A single PDF containing the following:
• Description of the teaching stay (see criteria document for requirements)
• Timeline in the form of a Gantt chart
• CV of the applicant (max. two pages)
• Support or invitation letter of the hosting partner university
• Letter of support from ETH professor (only applicable if the scientist conducting the teaching stay is not an ETH professor)

All application documents must be written in English and submitted via the online application form.

The next application deadline is 30 March 2025.

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