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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:14:10 -0700
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Dear Swiss-Listers,
For your information, we (Science & Technology Counselors) complained at SNF that the information on the 1999 Call for
Foerderungsprofessuren was not widely distributed outside Switzerland. For the 2000 call we received the information a few days ago and
I have posted it in the last issue of my electronic newsletter "eNews - science, technology, education and innovation, in and around
Switzerland".
Check issue #14 in the archives : http://www.topica.com/lists/eNews/read
Christian
Louis Perrochon wrote:
> > Create specific Research Grants for the re-entry of Swiss Researchers. This
> > year, on the first round of the newly established Foerderungprofessuren
> > grants, almost only researchers already established in Switzerland were
> > founded... (http://www.snf.ch/Foerderungsprofessuren/Statistik_f.html).
>
> This is interesting. I was looking for that statistics. When I was finishing my application, one Swiss university refused to discuss
> it with me because they already tagged their internal people for these positions. I am not kidding. After this, I kind of expected
> that this new vehicle will be used to fund people that were running out of money on long-term assistant positions in Switzerland.
> However, I looked at the site above and I did not find statistics on where the people worked before and how much international
> experience they had.
> Did I miss something? I send an e-mail to SNF to ask for exactly that information. Let's see what they say.
>
> On another point, the fact that only 3 out of 26 "Foerderungsprofessoren" are less than 35 years old is kind of scary to me, too. At
> least in Computer Science I'd expect you to be on tenure or years into tenure track when you are 37. Why would you consider a 4
> years limited Foerderungsprofessur anyway at 37? But maybe I am off here.
>
> Louis
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Christian Simm, PhD
Swiss Science & Technology Office for Western USA and Western Canada
Consulate General of Switzerland
456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94104 (USA)
phone : (415) 788-2272, extension 107 (direct) or 0 (operator)
fax : (415) 788-1402
e-mail : simm_at_sciencelink.org
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