The E4D Doctoral Scholarship Programme
The goal of the Engineering for Development (E4D) Programme is to promote research and education for people in low-income countries.
The E4D Doctoral Scholarship Programme is generously funded through the external pageSawiris Foundation for Social Developmentcall_made and the external pageSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.call_made
The grant sum is 200’000 CHF to cover the salary costs of the doctoral students for three years. ETH professors cover the 4th year of the doctoral studies as well as costs related to the research itself.
Please refer to the DownloadEligibility and Criteria document (PDF, 236 KB)vertical_align_bottom before applying.
The deadline to submit concept notes via email for the current call for fellowship applications is 30 April, 2024. Open all
Engineering for Development Doctoral Scholarships
- Goal
The E4D doctoral scholarships promote research projects with a direct impact for underprivileged people living in countries on the OECD DAC-2024-25 list.
Thus, the doctoral projects must be innovative and develop a method or product which is directly
relevant for improving the livelihoods of underprivileged people in low-income countries. - E4D Doctoral Scholarship Programme Eligibility and Partner Countries
2.1 The candidate
- The general entrance requirements for doctoral studies at the ETH Zurich and the respective department must be fulfilled.
- Experience in the selected research area is required.
- Candidates must be citizens of low- and lower-middle-income countries according to the
OECD DAC-2024-25 list classification.
2.2 The supervisor - The doctoral supervisor must be an ETH professor and must have a guaranteed ETH
position for the entire duration of the proposed project. - It is expected that the ETH Zurich professor supports the candidate in elaborating the full
proposal, if the concept note should be selected, and to supervise the candidate, if the
full proposal is selected for funding. - The supervisor confirms their commitment to the project by a letter of support,
indicating their contribution to the project in cash or kind.
2.3 The research project - The research topic is within the thematic scope of ETH Zurich.
- The proposal is a new doctoral project, not complementary funding to an on-going
research. - Subject of the proposed research is the development of methods, technologies, tools or
products, which generate a direct impact for underprivileged people in low-income
countries. - The ecological, socio-economic and cultural context is taken into account
E4D Doctoral Scholarship Programme Application procedure
The E4D Doctoral Scholarship Programme application procedure consists of two steps.
3.1 First step
The candidate submits the Concept Note Application Form 2024 to the E4D programme office
by e-mail to e4d@sl.ethz.ch. Only concept notes fulfilling all indicated requirements will be taken
into consideration and will be evaluated by the ETH4D Committee for Exchanges with regard to
their suitability for the second step.
The deadline for submitting concept notes is 30 April 2024.
Concept note
The concept note application must include:
- Completed Concept Note Application Form 2024 (DOCX, 37 KB)
- CV of the candidate
- Excellent MSc degree from a recognised university and grade transcripts
- Support letter of the supervising professor at ETH Zurich
- 2 reference letters from your field of research
- Relevant own publications or documentation of relevant activities relating to the project
- List of 5 independent reviewers (same field of research, but unknown to candidate and
professor) - Bibliography
3.2 Second step
Candidates whose concept note is accepted by the E4D committee elaborate a full proposal
together with the professor who agreed to supervise the project. If the candidate and the professor
do not know each other, they must set up a meeting to discuss the full proposal elaboration. This
meeting can be a face-to-face meeting or an online meeting.
Full proposals must be submitted by the ETH professor to the E4D Programme Office
(e4d@sl.ethz.ch) by 31 August 2024 in one single pdf document
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