ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 30, 2026

Applications are open for the ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants 2026. ETH4D offers grants for mentoring doctoral candidates and grasp’s college students from least-developed, low- and decrease-center-earnings nations.

The mentorship is a one-yr appointment and includes the next parts:

• Mentorship from one ETH professor, senior scientist or postdoc over a interval of 1 yr of the mentee’s doctoral research. They counsel month-to-month conferences and clearly outlined targets of the undertaking, e.g., presentation at a convention, joint publication. ETH mentors are free to serve on the doctoral committee of the ETH4D mentee, however this isn’t a requirement.
• Research keep on the mentor’s analysis group (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) for 1-3 months in the course of the mentorship interval.

Benefits

The grant covers bills as much as a most of 10k CHF and contains the next:

• Economy roundtrip ticket (max. 1.5 kCHF) to and from Switzerland for the analysis keep
• Accommodation
• Living allowance of 850 CHF per monthfor the period of the analysis keep at ETH Zurich, to cowl meals and different private prices (paid in money by the host professorship) 
• Visa charges
• Health insurance coverage (self-organised)
• Local transport in Zurich
• If relevant
  • Research supplies
  • Conference attendance

Eligibility

• ETH professors are eligible to obtain funding to host a scholar. ETH professors who will not be at present members of ETH4D should grow to be members upon receiving a grant.
• Eligible mentees are doctoral candidates and grasp’s college students who’re registered at a college or analysis institute in any nation listed within the present DAC-listing of ODA recipients, besides from higher-center-earnings nations.
• For college students from sure nations, a safety screening could also be required previous to arrival. ETH4D just isn’t concerned on this course of.

Application

Application should embody:

• Completed digital application type
• Detailed funds utilizing template
• Letters of help, submitted by way of e mail from the authors on to the ETH4D Programme Manager ([email protected])
  • One tutorial reference letter
  • Support letter from the internet hosting ETH professor, together with
    • Statement of any monetary or in-sort contributions, if relevant 
    • Interest in internet hosting the candidate, and any deliberate actions inside the group
    • For pre-doc purposes, the professor also needs to describe how the keep will assist facilitate a future doctoral study
• Submission of all different undertaking paperwork in a single PDF:
  • Project description (see beneath for necessities) 
  • Work plan and timeframe of the mentorship, together with deliberate actions, within the type of a Gantt Chart
  • Motivation letter of the doctoral candidate or grasp’s scholar (3’000 characters excl. house characters, utilizing Arial/ measurement 11/ line pitch 1.15).
    • Master’s college students also needs to describe their plans for making use of to a PhD after the pre-doc mentorship 
    • University transcripts
  • CV of doctoral candidate or grasp’s scholar (max. 2 pages), incl. publications
  • Doctoral undertaking proposal (if obtainable)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants.