Fondation Pierre Mercier pour la Science | Research
Event details
| Date | 01.12.2025 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Fondation Pierre Mercier pour la Science supports:
- Original scientific basic, applied or clinical biomedical research;
- Projects aiming at mitigating the imbalance caused by industrialization on ecology and health.
- Preference is given to projects with short and medium term implementation prospects
- Research must be conducted in Switzerland.
Who can apply: researchers whose career as leaders of a research group would be boosted by the Foundation’s support, but who do not yet have a stable position
Who cannot apply: Students, PhD students, Postdoctoral researchers or well-established researchers.
Funding & Duration: up to CHF 150'000-250’000 for to 2-3 years.
Eligible costs:
- Staff salary (doctoral and postdoctoral researchers)
- Consumables
Not eligible:
- Applicant's salary
- Overheads
Resubmissions: maximum one resubmission
Deadline:
- Internal Deadline: Submit your proposal to [email protected] 10 working days to obtain the Letter of Institutional Support (compulsory).
- Call Deadline: 1 June and 1 December (every year) -> Submit your application in a single PDF to [email protected].
- The Board of the Foundation invites shortlisted candidates for a 10-minute interview followed by a 5-minute question session.
Application:
- Motivation letter, indicating your exact title and function in your current institution, and in your research team, career plan and list of available fundings, max 1 page.
- CV (FNS template, incl. date of birth, 3 most representative publications, links for additional publications can be added), max 3 pages
- Project proposal (max. 3 pages)
- Scientific part
- Description of the work environment (e.g. team, laboratory, equipment and infrastructure)
- Budget
- Institutional Letter of Support confirming your employment relationship with EPFL and EPFL's commitment to provide support for your team (2 pages max)
All documents must be submitted, in the order prescribed above, in a single PDF document (max. 9 pages).
For more information and application: Please have a look at the call website.
Practical information
- General public
- Free