Call for FAN Awards 2025
The FAN Awards for early career researchers at UZH give recognition to the outstanding scientific achievements.
Three prizes are awarded for research projects of societal relevance and applying inter- or transdisciplinary approaches or methods in the areas of Arts and Social Sciences, Law and Economics and Medicine and Sciences.
Call for Mentoring Awards 2025 completed – overview of Awardees 2025.
The following call 2025 serves as reference
| Call for Nominations |
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| Selection procedure | The jury consists of three professorial members of UZH, representing the three scientific areas, as well a representative each from FAN (Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses of UZH Alumni) and the Office Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI). |
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| Prize | The Awards are endowed with CHF 5’000 each |
| Award-Ceremony |
As part of the event «Sparkling Research», invited by the Office of the Vice President Research on 6 February 2025 |
Nomination and selection
► Nomination process stage 1
All professors are invited to propose one qualified early career researcher to their respective faculty. Applications can be submitted to the respective dean's office:
Timing & contacts
| Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion | 1.11.2024 | Patrizia Stadler von Ah |
| Faculty of Law | 1. 11.2024 | Irene Schildknecht |
| Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics | 1.11.2024 | Stephanie Raimander |
| Faculty of Medicine | 15.10.2024 | Silvia Herren |
| Vetsuisse Faculty | 1.11.2024 | Marlen Tschudin |
| Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | 15.10.2024 | Sandro Berteletti |
| Faculty of Science | 1.11.2024 | Herr Prof. Dr. Thierry HennetStudiendekan |
Applications include:
- One-page summary of the project highlighting the most important results
- Short description of how the five criteria mentioned above are fulfilled
- 1-2 page CV of the candidate including a list of publications, the e-mail address and the phone number
The documents can be submitted in either German or English.
► Nomination process stage 2
Thereafter, each faculty nominates 1-2 candidates to the Graduate Campus. In the case of two nominations, at least one has to be a female nominee. The nomination documents should include a supporting statement of the Dean of the respective faculty.
Based on the application documents, the jury will invite the selected nominees to briefly present their projects in January 2025. Afterwards the jury will decide on the award winners.
Explanations for the criteria
Societal relevance
We consider socially relevant research not only as applied research, but above all as the investigation of topic areas related to pertinent issues and challenges of our society.
Inter- or transdisciplinarity approaches
We refer to the following definition of interdisciplinarity which includes also transdisciplinary research: «Interdisciplinary research (IDR) is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice.» Source: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research (2004), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, The National Academies Press 306, Washington, D.C., p. 188.