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ThinkSwiss ResearchScholarships: Asia-Pacific
Thank you for the overwhelming response to the 2023 scholarships cycle! We've had a very challenging time arriving at this year's shortlisted awardees, who have now been notified personally via email. Watch this space for the upcoming ThinkSwiss call in the second half of the year.
ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships is a program that opens doors for students from India, Singapore and Australia to the world of Swiss academia, that combines high quality curriculum with innovative thinking. The scholarship accepts students who have completed their 2nd year of under graduation or are currently enrolled in a post-graduation (Master's) programme. The students need to be enrolled with an Indian, Singaporean or Australian university. Please note that PhD students are not eligible to apply.
For Indian candidates, we specifically encourage students with an interest in Antimicrobial Resistances (AMR), One Health, biodiversity or climate change and action to apply.
Checklist before contacting a host professor
Here's a handy reference of everything you'll need to do before finding your host professor. Please note that students are responsible for finding a host professor or mentor at a Swiss institution as well as clarifying the scope of a research project before submitting their research scholarship application.
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Get inspired by the ThinkSwiss research scholars
Our scholarship recipients have all had incredible experiences in Switzerland. Hear from them on their journeys and how it shaped their research thinking.
It was the best experience ever to spend three months at the University of Geneva. Because of ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, I got exposure to a cutting-edge research environment and developed my scientific skills.
The risk group at UNIL specializes in the study of natural hazards and risks induced by surface and atmospheric phenomena, and their perception and impact on society. The ThinkSwiss scholarship gave me the opportunity to be on the ground and experience the very wide range of remote sensing techniques to study instabilities, at different scales, from satellite data to geological fieldwork acquisitions, and try to improve the processing and the analysis.
Mansi Singh IIT Roorkee / University of Lausanne
ThinkSwiss helped me fund my research internship in Switzerland. Although my research was in geomatics and the environment, I worked on completely interdisciplinary approaches in the Remote Sensing Laboratory, as a part of the research project exploring ways of closing the yield gap in African smallholder agriculture and requiring adaptation of feasible cultivation practices. Understanding loopholes and exchanging ideas to improve my design and configuration made it a great learning environment, broadening my perspective on my next steps.
Adyasha Mohapatra IIT BHU / University of Zurich
Switzerland is full of great hikes, mountains, lakes and medieval history. I have never visited such a scenic country that is so close to nature. The amount of research that happens in Switzerland in the field of Computer Science is unparalleled to any other country. Switzerland is definitely the place for research and higher studies.
Vibhav Agarwal IIIT Bangalore / Research Intern – University of Fribourg
Geneva has a great natural environment conducive to research in the social sciences as it hosts several international organisations including blocks from the United Nations Office at Geneva, International Labour Organization, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, World Intellectual Property Organization, etc. Thanks to ThinkSwiss, this was my first venture abroad and I am really motivated to pursue research in Human Rights after this for further studies.
Avantika Singh IIT Madras / Research Intern – The Graduate Institute of Geneva
Right from my very first day, I was very impressed by the level of organisation in the group. Each individual project in the lab was somehow contorted to fit the larger vision of the team. I highly recommend Switzerland, in particular for biomedical research, from my experience.
Sharika Mahadevan IIT Madras / University of BernSwiss Universities
Switzerland is a hub for excellent education, science, technology and innovation. It has outstanding universities with numerous programs, many world-class public research institutions and a thriving private sector that encourages research and development.
Get an overview on Swiss universities and research institutions.
Contact
Prajwala Ravikrishna, Academic Engagement Coordinator, Swissnex in India
Students from India, for more information about the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships kindly write to Prajwala. Selected candidates will be notified by email only. Kindly note that telephonic queries will not be encouraged.
Sebastien Monnet, Science, Technology and Education Advisor - Embassy of Switzerland in Australia
Students from Australia, for more information about the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships kindly write to Sebastien. Selected candidates will be notified by email only.
Joël Henri Brunner, Science Counselor - Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore
Students from Singapore, for more information about the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships kindly write to Joël. Selected candidates will be notified by email only.
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