Career and Personal Development

UZH supports PhD candidates, postdocs, external applicants and budding researchers when it comes to research funding, grants and contributions to research stays abroad.

For over two decades, we have provided PhD candidates and postdocs with research funding used mainly to cover their wages for up to two years. These grants are also available to applicants from outside UZH and therefore also help us attract excellent junior scholars from Switzerland and abroad.
UZH Candoc Grants
UZH Postdoc Grants

The UZH Doc.Mobility program helps PhD candidates to go on research stays abroad of between 6 and 18 months. This allows them to build an international network, learn about other academic systems, and fully focus on their research.
UZH Doc.Mobility

The Graduate Campus is the university’s main hub for supporting early-career academics, who can apply for funding for short research stays abroad and various other self-initiated activities (e.g. workshops, peer mentoring) aimed at junior academics.
Graduate Campus

The University of Zurich Research Talent Development Fund (Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses, FAN) is supported by UZH Alumni and promotes outstanding, innovative young researchers through contributions to research projects and stays abroad.
FAN (in German)

The junior and senior fellowship programs of the Collegium Helveticum aim to strengthen transdisciplinary exchange by supporting people from a wide range of fields and disciplines and helping them to work together successfully.
Collegium Helveticum: Junior and Senior Fellowships

If you are an established researcher, you can apply for centrally funded competitive sabbaticals. Grants cover the costs for replacing your teaching appointment in the relevant period.
Competitive Sabbaticals