Speakers
Description
From co-funding opportunities, to applying to a PhD in Switzerland, we give an overview of some of the ways to bring researchers in Africa and Switzerland together.
Raphaela Kübler is the Science and Technology Program Officer at the Embassy of Switzerland to South Africa and will speak about the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars.
Jasmina Saric is coordinating the Swiss Leading House Region Africa mandate for bilateral research collaboration between Swiss academic and research institutions and partner institutions in the sub-Saharan Africa region. She will speak about the opportunities for funding collaborative research and innovation activities that the Leading House has made available in the funding period 2017-2020 and what may be expected for the next period.