research consultants<\/a> of your faculty for personalized advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPrivate vs public funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In 2022, ACIDUL, in collaboration with the Service Recherche and the Graduate Campus, looked into private funding of research (by foundations, associations, NGOs, etc.) at UNIL. To better understand the extent of this support and the conditions under which it is granted, an online survey was sent to PhD students and the mid-level academic staff, including ALUMNIL. Questions concerned, for instance, the type of funding (research project with salary; research expenses; research project with third-party salary; conference, etc.; research stay outside of UNIL; other), the amount requested, and the answer obtained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several results are worth sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First of all, requests for funding by private organizations \u2013 which therefore exclude funds granted by UNIL and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) \u2013 mainly come from the Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Such a finding is not surprising given that the faculty has long called on private donors. Moreover, projects with a salary make up most applications, which confirms the scarcity of public funding offers today. Next are applications for research costs (e.g. field work, visits to archives, publication fees), followed by projects with third-party salaries, which allow to fund other researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Candidates submitted applications for funding to 56 different organizations. Among these, the most solicited are the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 acad\u00e9mique vaudoise<\/em>, the Emma Muschamp Foundation<\/em>, the Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research<\/em> and the Erna Hamburger Foundation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRegarding the status of the candidates at the time of application, 57% of them were without a contract. In other words, they did not have any kind of public funding. PhD students who do not have or no longer have funding are over-represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, it appears that 60% of applications did not result in any funding at all, and only a quarter of applications could have funded a little less than a year\u2019s salary for a PhD student had they been successful. The most generous organizations are the following: Fondation Leenaards<\/em>, Bryn Turner-Samules Foundation<\/em>, Swiss Lung Association<\/em>, Emma Muschamp Foundation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFinally, it should be noted that few people responded to our survey compared with the number that received it (between 4000 and 4500 people). Could such a low response rate indicate a low rate of demand for this type of funding at UNIL? Besides, there seems to be a certain confusion between public and private funding. Indeed, many responses had to be discarded because they concerned public funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case, it is good to keep in mind that most of the time private funding can only support research and not actually fund salaries for researchers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding funding for a doctoral or postdoctoral research often feels like an uphill battle. Funding sources are limited, and project submission deadlines vary from one place to another, not to mention scholarships and subsidies that are specific to particular fields or target a specific category of researchers. Below, you will find some information on funding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3517","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3517\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/acidul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}