Upcoming call for scientific exchanges with South Korea
© 2019 ETHZ, NRF Korea
Research stays in South Korea for Swiss-based PhD Students and young postdocs. Any disciplines.
Deadline: 29 November 2019.
The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has commissioned ETHZ as Leading House for bilateral research collaboration with the Korean National Research Foundation (NRF) in all scientific disciplines.
ETHZ (as the Swiss Leading House) and the Korean National Research Foundation (NRF) jointly operate an instrument to foster and facilitate the direct exchange in any disciplines between Korean and Swiss research groups, enabling the mobility of young researchers. It is anticipated that 9 fellowships on each side can be financed within this Call.
ETHZ call supports 3-monthresearch stays in South Korea of young researchers (PhD students and young postdocs) from Swiss universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes. The Host researcher in Korea must be a principal investigator employed full-time at a university or research institute in Korea.
Applicants with Korean nationality cannot be considered for stays in Korea. Korean young researchers interested in a 3-month research stay in Switzerland must apply to the NRF to receive a monthly allowance of CHF 2’500 for 3 months and an international air ticket of max. CHF 2’000.
ETHZ support consist of a monthly allowance of KRW 2’500’000 per month and max. KRW 2’500’000 for the international air ticket.
Timeline of the call:
- Applications open in September: fill out the application form, join Supporting letters from both the Swiss supervisor and the Korean host supervisor, and submit your application to Ms Lucia Arpagaus ([email protected]).
- Deadline: 29 November 2019
- Decisions will be communicated in February 2020
- Earliest start: 1 March 2020
- Latest end: 28 February 2021
For more information and application, have a look at the call website and the call guidelines.