Brian Cahill
Polat Goktas
Polat Goktas
Mariya Evtimova-Gardair
Jenny Lind Elmaco
Swiss National Science Fund's PRIMA grant for excellent women researchers
PRIMA grants are aimed at excellent women researchers who show a high potential for obtaining a professorship. PRIMA grantees conduct an independent research project with their own team at a Swiss research institution.
PRIMA grants cover the grantee's salary and project costs for a five-year period. With this competitive grant, PRIMA grantees can carve out a name for themselves and take the next step up the academic career ladder: a professorship. If a PRIMA grantee is appointed as a professor in Switzerland during the funding period, the remaining amount of the PRIMA grant will be transferred to the new place of work as research funds.
Deadline: 1st November 2018
More information can be found here: http://www.snf.ch/en/funding/careers/prima/Pages/default.aspx
13 Comments
Hi Catherine,
the first call was in 2017 and they repeated it this year again. I can imagine it will continue next year but you never know.
Warm regards
Brian
Dear Brian,
Thanks, I will look out for it in the future.
Catherine
Hello. thanks for sharing. do you know if these scholarships are for women scientists only or if they apply also to women researchers in other fields of Social Sciences and the Humanities? thanks
Dear Maria,
As I read the regulations of the PRIMA call, section 2.c) it seems it is only focused on medical and veterinarian field. Unfortunately the SSH field is not included. I would suggest to make a direct enquiry by email, just to be sure.
Best of luck!
Nina
Thank you, Nina!
Hi Maria,
Article 5 of the regulations say that “Proposals for PRIMA grants may be submitted by women researchers from all disciplines”. I don’t see any restriction to the natural sciences.
Warm regards
Brian
SNSF programs are almost always opened for all disciplines. Just read the webpage http://www.snf.ch/en/funding/careers/prima/Pages/default.aspx#Members%20of%20the%20evaluation%20bodies.
Members of the evaluation bodies
The list contains the names of the members of evaluation bodies. For the SNSF, interaction between applicants and members of evaluation bodies over applications is not compatible with academic best practices.
The confusing part is the article I have mentioned above. I always find more usufuu to call/write directly the funding body. In Spain there was a similar call, but at the end although it was written "all discipline", the person in charge of the funding explained that this year is only focused on life science. So, you never know how administration works out in each country :-)
As a general rule, all calls from SNSF are for all disciplines, except one-off international collaboration calls that focus on specific themes (this is mentioned clearly in the announcement) and some SSH-specific calls for PhD students.
Hi Maria,
This is a contact email for questions: prima@snf.ch
Hope it helps:-)
Dear Veronika,
I agree - always the best way is to contact the funding body directly to avoid any confusion - the regulation and the call here stated are not matching (maybe is a language barrier - for me something like "humanities medicine" does not states clear if they meant Social Sciences and Humanities as they are emphasizing medical field).
Good luck Maria!
Kind regards, NIna
Hi Nina,
my understanding is that researchers with a doctorate are eligible to apply but clinical scientists (for instance, medical doctors) may be eligible without a doctorate.
Good luck with the application Maria!
warm regards
Brian
Thanks for sharing, do you know if these grants are available each year? I am not eligible this but might be interested next year.