The RFPP is a grant scheme providing doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships. Doctoral fellowships are funded for three years, post-doctoral fellowships for two years. The following criteria must be fulfilled to apply for a fellowship:
- deals with agriculture, forestry or natural resourcemanagement for develoment;
- is embedded in an international research partnership (see below);
- is in accordance with the thematic and geographic priorities of SDC;
- is professionally supervised and backstopped bythe involved institutions.
- is a doctoral or a post-doctoral candidate;
- is a Swiss resident under the age of 36, or a citizen from a developing country or country in transition up to the age of 40;
- has proven experience in the selected research area;
- is interested in development cooperation and open to different cultures;
- the RFPP strives for gender balance, therefore, female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
The partnership:
- involves a professorship at ETH Zurich and an international research institution, e.g. a CGIAR centre or a comparable international or regional centre;
- is part of an existing or emerging collaborative research programme between the involved institutions;
- includes a substantial in-kind or cash commitment of the partners;
- the project has to be integrated into the activities of the involved institutions.
Application procedure
Consider that only complete proposals will be accepted for review. Send you application electronically to the RFPP-coordinator Patricia Heuberger-Meyer at pheuberger@ethz.ch.
An application for an RFPP fellowship has to include the following elements:
Cover page
The cover page contains the title of the project, name of applicant, date of birth, nationality, participating researchers and institutions, names and institutions of supervisors, brief abstract, time span of project, total amount requested. A template of the cover page is provided (doc, 206 kb).
Proposal
The proposal has to be structured as follows:
- Title
- Abstract
- Objectives
- Background (including problem definition and state of research)
- Project description (research plan presented in a logical framework matrix - logical framework info, pdf 154 kb)
- Chances, risks and open questions
- Research innovativeness
- Expected results
- Hypotheses and activities
- Institutional aspects / partnership / research base
- Supervision and backstopping
- Work schedule / time table
- Budget (budget info - pdf, 33 kb)
- Literature
The maximum lenght has been limited to 15 pages (A4, Arial 11 points) or 50'000 characters (including space) to cover the above mentioned issues (excluding literature).
Independent reviewers
All complete project proposals meeting the formal requirements will be scientifically reviewed. A list with names, institutional affiliations, addresses and emails of five potential, independent reviewers is required.
CV inlcuding intentions and perspectives and personal references
Since RFPP is a human resource focused programme the CV is essential, including a section showing explicitly your career intentions and perspectives. Additionally, three personal references are to be provided (Name, institutional affiliation, telephone and email).
Letters of support
In order to document the institutional integration of the project, letters of support by all partner institutions and supervisors involved are required.
Only complete project proposals according to these instructions will be considered for review. Please send you application electronically (pdf-files prefered, doc- or rtf-files possible) to the RFPP-coordinator Patricia Heuberger-Meyer at pheuberger@ethz.ch. The RFPP management may reject fellowship proposals not meeting the formal requirements.
http://www.rfpp.ethz.ch/application/index
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