1. Required documents for Mobility-Online
The scholarship will be managed via Mobility-Online. For this, an application must be submitted. Which documents must be prepared is explained below.
Your official student status at ETH Zurich during your one-year research visit is FCS visiting student. In order for the Reception Service to matriculate you in this status, you must complete an online application in Mobility-Online.
All documents must be in PDF format, except for the photo.
You must upload a photo of yourself in portrait format, which will be used for your ETH student card.
To note when choosing a photo:
- Recently taken
- Good quality image: full-?face, well-?lit, neutral background, etc.
- Maximum of 800 x 600 pixels (height x width) and 1 MB
- You must upload a scan of your valid passport: page(s) with your photo and personal details (name, date of birth) only. EU/EFTA citizens may also upload a scan of their identity card instead.
- The passport must be valid for at least three months beyond the official end date of your scholarship stay.
- If you have two nationalities, upload a scan of both passports as one merged PDF file.
- This document is only required from scholarship holders already living in Switzerland before the scholarship commences.
- Upload a scan of your Swiss residence permit back and front side.
- Upload a scan of the letter or email you used for your FCS scholarship application (ETH professor or your supervisor at Eawag, Empa, PSI, WSL).
- There is no need for an actual confirmation since this document is only used for ETH records.
- Upload a complete official transcript of records in English or German of all your studies to date including Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. Only if available, the transcript should contain a grading key / legend explaining the grading system of your home university.
- If you are currently enrolled in a doctoral programme at your home university, either upload further transcripts of records in English or German for the doctorate and/or a confirmation of enrolment in your doctoral degree programme. If neither is available, make sure the details of your enrolment in a doctoral programme is included in your CV.
Upload a scan of the letter (German and English).
Upload a scan of the confirmation you sent to FCS to confirm your scholarship.
Upload a current curriculum vitae (CV) in English or German.
Next step
2. Mobility-Online applicationIf you conduct your project at a research institute
- You will need to register twice: once with the Reception Service and once with your research institute.
- Your research institute will contact you and ask you to register with them. This second registration process is in addition to the one via Mobility-?Online. The Mobility-?Online process is described on the following pages.