FELL: Fellowship Programme at CERN 3228 views

The Fellowship Programme is meant for graduates from universities or higher technical institutes in a wide range of applied sciences, computing and engineering with limited or no work experience. CERN is associated with COFUND a European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action to stimulate mobility and career development through fellowship programmes.

Subject areas:

1. Civil Engineering
2. Controls and Data Acquisition
3. Electricity
4. Electro-mechanics
5. Electronics
6. Health, Safety & Environment
7. Information Technologies
8. Materials Science
9. Surface Engineering
10. Mechanics, Physics
11. Support & Administration

Eligibility:

• Applicant must be national of a CERN Member State or Non-Member States with a senior profile (limited number of positions is available to young scientists).
• Applicant must hold graduate degree or are about to graduate with a university degree of Bachelor’s in Science level or above or a technical engineer qualification.
• Applicants who are currently preparing a diploma are eligible to apply.
• Applicants having Master’s level degree or above must not have more than 10 years relevant experience; Or having only a BSc or a technical engineer diploma must not have more than 4 years relevant experience.
• If applicant is applying in experimental or theoretical physics fields, must have a PhD or are about to finish thesis.
• If applicant is applying for applied science, computing or engineering, must hold a university degree (BSc level or above) or a technical engineer qualification (or are about to graduate).

Fellowship value:

• Stipend: 5165 CHF to 8043 CHF/ month
• Travel expenses
• Installation indemnity
• Family allowance
• Pension Fund membership
• Health
• Insurance scheme

Number of fellowships: approximately 220 Fellowships every year

Application requirements:

• CV
• list of publications if relevant
• photocopy of the highest qualification
• 3 recent letters of recommendation letters.