Scholarship: Junior Fellowship Collegium Helveticum, Zurich

The Collegium Helveticum fellowship program is aimed at promising early-career researchers as well as exceptional academics and artists who are already established in their careers. We welcome applicants working in any disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, medicine or the arts (fine arts, music, design, performing arts, film).

Deadline Junior Fellowship: 01.03.2023

Fellowship types

The Collegium Helveticum has three fellowship types. Junior fellows are postdoc researchers, or art school graduates at an equivalent stage in their career. They spend ten months at the Collegium and receive a grant equivalent to a full salary. Senior fellows are established artists or academics who work at the Collegium during a visiting fellowship at ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts. They receive a financial allowance. Associate fellows are the academic partners of the junior and senior fellows at ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich or Zurich University of the Arts.

Junior fellowship

As the joint institute for advanced studies of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts, the Collegium Helveticum facilitates research and artistic work across all disciplines. Located in the former Semper Observatory, the Collegium Helveticum provides a thriving intellectual atmosphere and ideal working conditions for its fellows and promotes exchange with the local scientific and cultural communities.

The application window for the fellow year 2023/24 is open until March 1, 2023. We look forward to receiving your application!
More information here.

Fellowship year and start date

The fellowship year runs from 1 September to 30 June. Junior fellows generally begin their fellowship on 1 September. Senior fellows can start at any time during the fellowship year.

Application deadlines

Applications for the Junior Fellow year 2023-2024 can be submitted on this website from November 2022. For senior fellows there is currently no application deadline, but applications can be submitted at the earliest one year and at the latest three months before the planned start of the Fellowship. Applications are evaluated on an ongoing basis.