BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

To promote individual guest placements, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) finances a limited number of short visits. Applications which:
a) relate to the funding of short visits by Swiss researchers to foreign research institutes or of short visits by foreign researchers to Swiss research institutes, and
b) are not covered by an existing agreement between the SNSF and a partner organization may be submitted to the SNSF if the following formal criteria are met: the application must be made by the researcher based at a Swiss university who is planning a short visit to a foreign research institute or by the head of the Swiss research institute which is wishing to receive a foreign visiting researcher; applicant  of the funding must have a doctorate; the visit must be intended to result in ongoing research co-operation; the minimum duration of the visit must be such that the desired objective can be achieved (at least seven days), the maximum duration may not exceed three months; the visit must not be solely in the interest of the host laboratory.

Deadline: any time, at least two months before the planned begin of research project.