Sciex is the Swiss promotion tool for research teams from all disciplines, consisting of team-members from the EU10 and Switzerland. Sciex Fellows from the EU10: BGR, CZE, EST, HUN, LTU, LVA, POL, ROU, SVK, SVN pursue their research in cooperation with Swiss researchers in Swiss research institutions. Ideal working and framework conditions support the success of their research. Sciex is part of the Swiss Contribution to the New Member States of the EU.

This call is open to Estonian-, Hungarian-, Latvian-, Lithuanian- and Slovakian- Swiss Teams

Proposal submission deadline: April 1st 2013
Selection Meeting: End of August 2013
Earliest start of Fellowships around the end of 2013 beginning of 2014.

Please note that two important changes were introduced:

1. Introduction of personal requirements
   In order to better adapt the required academic profiles of the candidates to the target group of the Sciex Programme - who are "promising Junior Researchers, who (1) aim at attaining a PhD Degree or (2) pursue doctoral research, normally with the intention to qualify for professorship" - the Steering Committee has finally decided to introduce the following personal requirements in the application rules:
   1. for a doctoral fellowship, start of the fellowship at the earliest 1 year after obtaining the master's degree;
      
   2. for a postdoctoral fellowship, start of the fellowship at the latest 5 years after obtaining the doctorate.
      
   The date of the examination shall be the decisive date.
   
2. Follow-up projects and extensions no longer allowed
   The Steering Committee has also decided that Doctoral Candidates and/or PostDocs, who were already granted a Sciex Fellowship, do not have the possibility to apply a second time for a Sciex funding. This rule applies exclusively to the Fellows (the Mentors themselves are of course not concerned). Furthermore, ongoing projects cannot be extended any more.
   

 Detailed information about the current 8th Call:
http://www.crus.ch/sciex-news/news/close-up.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=700&cHash=e05271a42188ead2fa1fb7bce6e222b5
http://www.crus.ch/information-programme/sciex-nms-ch/sciex-nms-ch-hungary.html - You can find the Hungarian contact as well.