EPFL Junior Faculty Development Program for Early-stage African Professors 2022

The Junior Faculty Development program is designed to bring together talented and highly-educated early-stage professors in Africa with professors at EPFL striving for common goals: scientific excellence, the promotion of knowledge, and the wish to have a positive societal impact in Africa. The Junior Faculty Development program will thus lay the ground for successful careers in Africa and potentially lasting collaborations with EPFL.

• Table of Content
• About EPFL Global Leaders
• Junior Faculty Development Program
• Aim and Benefits of Junior Faculty Development Program
• Requirements for Junior Faculty Development Program Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Junior Faculty Development Program
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About EPFL Global Leaders

EPFLglobaLeaders is a new doctoral fellowship programme funding early stage researchers to become leaders in the transition towards sustainable societies. Forty-eight doctoral fellows will benefit from a multifaceted training programme, including a secondment in the non-academic sector.

Junior Faculty Development Program

Aim and Benefits of Junior Faculty Development Program

Eligible costs include and are limited to:

• Personnel costs
• Travel costs
• Equipment and research funds
• Living allowance for secondment at EPFL
• Institutional contribution

Requirements for Junior Faculty Development Program Qualification

• Must be employed or due to be hired by an African higher education institution
• Must have earned a PhD degree between 1st January 2013 and 16th Nov 2022
• Must have an outstanding research and publication track record
• Must submit a research project within the current domains of scientific or technological research activity at EPFL

Interview date, Process and Venue for Junior Faculty Development Program

• Shortlisted applicants who are successfully matched with an EPFL professor will be notified by early 2023 and invited to submit a full proposal for Stage 2.
• Final decisions will be announced in summer 2023.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

The application and evaluation process includes two stages.

Please read carefully the application guidelines.

All required documents must be submitted on the online submission platform.

For more details, visit EPFL website.