Opportunities from State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Switzerland

For applicants whose country of origin is Mauritania, Switzerland's official 2027–28 country list opens the call on August 20, 2026 and sets the submission deadline at November 30, 2026, 11:59 PM Swiss local time. Available types are Research Fellowship and PhD Scholarship. The Mauritania country contact is handled through the Embassy of Switzerland in Senegal. Research fellowships support 6–12 months of full-time research in Switzerland; PhD scholarships are initially 12 months and may be renewed twice up to 36 months subject to academic progress. The official monthly scholarship contribution is CHF 2,450 for one person. Tuition or semester fees are not automatically covered.

Applicants must meet the official 2027–28 research or PhD criteria. For both routes, a Master's degree or equivalent must be completed by July 31, 2027 (June 30, 2027 for ETH Zurich), applicants must have been born after December 31, 1991, and an academic supervisor in Switzerland must support the proposed project. Additional route-specific requirements apply.