Promotion of Young Scientists in Central and Eastern Europe (PROMYS) – Call for Proposals 2023, Second Swiss Contribution

PROMYS is one of the three funding programmes offered by the SNSF as part of the second
Swiss contribution to selected EU member states. The mandate was given by the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The programme is intended to create
promising and interesting career opportunities for outstanding researchers in Bulgaria and to
thus counteract a “brain drain”. At the same time, PROMYS aims to strengthen Bulgaria as a
research location in general.
The programme is aimed at researchers who worked in Switzerland for at least one year
during their doctoral or postdoctoral phase, and who now aspire to an assistant professorship
in Bulgaria. Researchers with three to six years’ research experience since their doctorate can
submit an application. To be eligible, they need to have worked for at least three years either
in one of the EU-27 countries or in Switzerland, or they must be a national of one of the
above-mentioned countries. They can apply for their own salaries, the salaries of project staff,
and other research costs. Under the terms of the grant, they will receive a maximum of
625,000 francs for a project duration of five years. The SNSF can finance three PROMYS
projects in total.
A previous PROMYS call was conducted in 2016, in which 7 projects were funded by the
SNSF with 4.3 million francs.
 Call document (PDF)
 Second Swiss contribution
Source: https://www.snf.ch/en/uDrZ9XdnVZNYvICh/funding