Flexibility Grant

Flexibility grants are aimed at postdocs and doctoral students who have to look after children at an important stage in their career and are therefore in need of more flexibility. The Flexibility Grant offers researchers two options to balance their professional and private lives: on the one hand, it can provide funding to help cover the external child care costs charged to the researcher. On the other hand, it can be used to help finance the salary of a support person, allowing the grantee to reduce his/her work quota. The two measures can also be combined. This grant is available to researchers employed in SNSF-funded research projects who need external childcare on three working days per week and can cover at most one of the remaining two days themselves. Postdocs must have a work-time percentage of at least 80%, while doctoral students can apply irrespective of their work-time percentage. Holders of Ambizione, PRIMA, Postdoc.Mobility return grants and Doc.CH grants may also apply.