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Find Ph.D scholarships for international students to study in Switzerland 2026-2027.
You will spend up to 36 months working on your doctoral thesis in a truly unique environment where science, technology and innovation meet. You’ll be part of an international community of experts, gaining experience at the forefront of research and engineering. Your responsibilities:
Published: 02 Oct 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 16 Oct 2026
The Hydrogeology research group at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Basel is offering a fully funded PhD position within the international ANR–SNSF project FutureFlow. Headwater catchments form the uppermost parts of river networks and represent a substanti
Published: 22 Jun 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: Not Specified
The Agricultural Economics and Policy Group led by Robert Finger is looking for a doctoral (PhD) student with a background in agricultural economics for the topic of the economics and policy of climate change mitigation in Swiss agriculture. This 4-year position is funded in the project “
Published: 26 May 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 26 Jun 2026
The CERN Theoretical Physics Department (CERN-TH) has launched a talent pool recruitment exercise for Limited Duration (LD) research staff positions. This pool aims at defining a list of pre-assessed and endorsed candidates that can be hired for future opportunities, determined by the
Published: 07 Oct 2025 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 31 Dec 2025
Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to encourage international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries. Recipients are selected by the awarding body, the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS a
Published: 18 Sep 2025 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 31 Dec 2025
The Scholarship Fund of the Swiss Chemical Industry (SSCI) is a joint initiative of ETH Zurich and the two companies Janssen AG and Givaudan Schweiz AG. The aim of this Scholarship Fund is to support outstanding PhD-students in the field of chemistry and applied biosciences during their doctoral
Published: 10 Sep 2025 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
The Unifr scholarships, which are awarded in the context of a postdoctorate, enable postdoctoral researchers whose place of residence is abroad to complete a research stay at Unifr for a maximum of three months.
Published: 25 Jun 2025 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Jun 2025
ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s d
Published: 23 Jul 2024 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 15 Oct 2024
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The goal of the Engineering for Development (E4D) Programme is to promote research and education for people in low-?income countries. The E4D Programme is generously funded through the external pageSawiris Foundation for Social Developmentcall_made and the external pageSwiss Agen
Published: 11 Mar 2024 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Value: 200’000 CHF Deadline: 30 Apr 2024
ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s d
Published: 27 Feb 2024 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Mar 2024
The goal of the Engineering for Development (E4D) Programme is to promote research and education for people in low-?income countries. The E4D Programme is generously funded through the external pageSawiris Foundation for Social Developmentcall_made and the external pageSwiss Agency for Developmen
Published: 03 Mar 2023 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Apr 2023
The goal of the Engineering for Development (E4D) Programme is to promote research and education for the benefit of underprivileged people in low-?income countries. The E4D Programme is generously funded through the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development and the S
Published: 16 Feb 2023 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Apr 2023
ETH4D provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components: Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a period of one year of the mentee’s d
Published: 03 Feb 2023 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Apr 2023
The University of Zurich UBS Center Scholarship are full scholarships awarded every year to outstanding university graduates to enable them to take up their doctoral studies at the Zurich Graduate School of Economics, run by the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. Furthermore, by fu
Published: 15 Nov 2022 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 15 Jan 2023
The wife of John Charles Warren Shepherd, a former collaborator of Walter Gehring (see Shepherd JC et al. 1984 Nature, Shepherd JC et al. 1989 PNAS), has bequeathed part of her estate to the Biozentrum, University of Basel, for the specific purpose of setting up a student prize for scientific excell
Published: 19 Oct 2022 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Nov 2022
The Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel calls for applications for two doctoral positions in Social Anthropology or African Studies covering a period of three years funded by the Humer Foundation for Academic Talent. Over the past three decades, in Africa as elsewhere, the
Published: 18 May 2022 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 31 May 2022
The University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for two fully funded Ph.D. positions in Urban Studies, as part of the following research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation: PRECURBICA: Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa With accelerating urbanization, strate
Published: 28 Jan 2022 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 31 Jan 2022
The University of Zurich UBS Center Scholarship are full scholarships awarded every year to outstanding university graduates to enable them to take up their doctoral studies at the Zurich Graduate School of Economics, run by the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. Furthermore, by fu
Published: 29 Nov 2021 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 15 Jan 2022
The aim of the IPCC Scholarship Programme is to build capacity in the understanding and management of climate change in developing countries through providing opportunities for young scientists from developing countries to undertake studies that would not be possible without the intervention of the
Published: 19 Mar 2021 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 28 Mar 2021
The goal of the Engineering for Development (E4D) Programme is to promote research and education for the benefit of underprivileged people in low-?income countries. The E4D Programme is generously funded through the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development and the Swiss Agency for Development an
Published: 19 Mar 2021 Type: PhD Study in: Switzerland Deadline: 30 Apr 2021
