Useful links

Equal opportunity offices:

• at ETH
• at external pageUni Baselcall_made
• at external pageUni Genevacall_made
• at external pageEPFLcall_made
• at external pageUSIcall_made

Carrier building courses

• at ETH
• at external pageUNI Baselcall_made

Support for families

• Family at ETH
• Welcome Center ETH
  
• external pageDay care at ETHcall_made
• Programme for postdoctoral mothers at ETHZ D-​PHYS    

Mentoring for Female Students
A mentoring progam for female students is offered in a joint initiative by NCCR MUST, NCCR QSIT and the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich, .

QSIT workshops/lectures
In the frame of the advancement of young researchers - program the NCCR QSIT offers workshops / lectures dedicated to career building topics.

external pageFix the leaky pipelinecall_made:
The Fix the Leaky Pipeline program offers young female scientists (PhD students, PhDs and others) the opportunity to reflect on their professional situations, develop a strategy for embarking or continuing on their career paths, receive targeted further training, and extend their personal and scientific networks.

external pagePRIMAcall_made
PRIMA grants (provided by the SNSF) are aimed at excellent female researchers from Switzerland and abroad who aspire to a professorship in Switzerland. PRIMA grantees lead their own research project at a Swiss higher education institution. They work independently and have a team of their own.

Robert Gnehm Grants for Conference Attendance:
New Instrument for Supporting Doctoral Students and Post-doctoral Researchers with young children
ETH Zurich has developed a new instrument for supporting doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers with family obligations. Around 10-15 doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers with young children (< 18 months) can be supported financially in the future for up to 3 19000 CHF per year with the help of Robert-Gnehm Grants. You are eligible for this support if you present your own research results at an important conference which will cause additional child care costs.
Applications for a Robert-Gnehm Grant can be submitted electronically to the EQUAL! Office by 1.2., 1.6. and 1.11. of every year:

Family support measures from the SNSF:
external pageFlexibility grantcall_made: (see also for NCCR members)
Flexibility grants are aimed at postdocs and doctoral students who have to look after children at an important stage in their career and are therefore in need of more flexibility. The Flexibility Grant offers researchers two options to balance their professional and private lives: on the one hand, it can provide funding to help cover the external child care costs charged to the researcher. On the other hand, it can be used to help finance the salary of a support person, allowing the grantee to reduce his/her work quota. The two measures can also be combined.

external pageCareer funding schemes of the SNFScall_made:
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) offers a wide range of funding opportunities for individual careers.