Das SCIEX Steering Commitee hat im März 2012 einige Entscheidungen für das SCIEX-Programm getroffen über die wir wir hier kurz informieren:
1. Introduction of personal requirements
In order to better adapt the required academic profiles of the candidates to the target group of the Sciex Programme – who are “promising Junior Researchers, who (1) aim at attaining a PhD Degree or (2) pursue doctoral research, normally with the intention to qualify for professorship” – the Steering Committee has finally decided to introduce the following personal requirements in the application rules:
a) for a doctoral fellowship, start of the fellowship at the earliest 1 year after obtaining the master’s degree;
b) for a postdoctoral fellowship, start of the fellowship at the latest 5 years after obtaining the doctorate.
The date of the examination shall be the decisive date.
These new application rules will enter into force as from the 7th Sciex Call (Deadline: November 1st 2012).
2. Follow-up projects
The Steering Committee has also decided that Doctoral Candidates and/or PostDocs, who were already granted a Sciex Fellowship, do not have the possibility to apply a second time for a Sciex funding.
This rule applies exclusively to the Fellows and the Mentors themselves are not concerned.
This decision was taken with regard to the constant increase of submitted proposals – including follow-up projects – and with regard to the final aim of the Sciex Programme that as many Fellows as possible benefit from this opportunity to conduct a research project in collaboration with a Swiss research team.
This new rule will enter into force as from the 7th Sciex Call (Deadline: November 1st 2012).
3. Next Sciex Fellows Event & Training Session: October 22nd and 23rd 2012 in Lausanne
The next Sciex Fellows Event will take place on October 22nd 2012 (afternoon) in Lausanne, at EPFL – Rolex Learning Center (http://www.rolexlearningcenter.ch/ ).
The Training Session for Coordination Bodies and Regional Offices will take place on October 23rd 2012 at the University of Lausanne.
Information concerning the precise organization and the programme of these two events will follow in the coming months.
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