SCIEX – Scientific Exchanges between Switzerland and Bulgaria: Call for Proposals
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.
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.
The main objectives of SCIEX are to further scientific knowledge and development, to improve and deepen the grantees’ scientific skills, to foster research collaborations and to strengthen scientific networking between Switzerland and Bulgaria.
The participation requirements are detailed in the call document that is already available (see link below). The call opens on 1 November 2024 and closes on 13 March 2025.