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SUMMARY:Fondation Pierre Mercier pour la Science | Research Funding
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220601
DTSTAMP:20260527T163839Z
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:Fondation Pierre Mercier pour la Science supports:\n\n	Origina
 l scientific basic\, applied or clinical biomedical research\;\n	Projects 
 aiming at remedying the imbalance caused by industrialization on ecology a
 nd health.\n	Preference is given to projects with applications in the shor
 t and medium term.\n	Research must be conducted for the most part in Switz
 erland.\n\n \nWho can apply: researchers (e.g. PATT\, SNSF Eccellenza Fel
 lows\, Adjunct Professors) whose career as leaders of a research group wou
 ld be boosted by the Foundation’s support.\n \nWho cannot apply: Studen
 ts\, PhD students\, Postdoctoral researchers or well-established researche
 rs.\n \nFunding & Duration: up to CHF 150'000-250’000 for to 2-3 years.
 \n \nDeadline:\n\n\n	Internal Deadline: Submit your proposal to research@
 epfl.ch 10 working days to obtain the Letter of Institutional Support (com
 pulsory).\n	Call Deadline: 1 June and 1 December (every year) -> Submit yo
 ur application in a single PDF to christian.terrier@vta-notaires.ch.\n	The
  Board of the Foundation invites shortlisted candidates for a 10-minute in
 terview followed by a 5-minute question session.\n\n\nApplication: \n\n\n	
 Motivation letter\, explaining your position in the research group.\n	CV (
 incl. date of birth)\n	Project proposal (max. 3 pages)\n	\n		Scientific pa
 rt\n		Description of the work environment (e.g. team\, laboratory\, equipm
 ent and infrastructure)\n		Budget\n	\n	\n	Institutional Letter of Support 
 confirming your employment relationship with EPFL\n\n\nAll documents must 
 be submitted\, in the order prescribed above\, in a single PDF document (m
 ax. 8 pages).\n \nFor more information and application: Please have a loo
 k at the call website.\n 
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