1. Required documents for Mobility-Online
After the confirmation of your scholarship, the next step is your application in Mobility Online.
During your one-year research stay at ETH Zurich, your official status will be that of an FCS visiting student. To be matriculated under this status, you need to complete the online application in Mobility-Online.
Details on the required documents are provided below. 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.
When choosing a photo:
- Recently taken
- Good quality image: full-?face, well-?lit, neutral background.
- 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 start of the scholarship.
- Upload a scan of your Swiss residence permit back and front side.
- Upload the invitation letter from your ETH professor or your supervisor at Eawag, Empa, PSI, WSL (the one you used to apply for the FCS scholarship).
- Upload a complete official transcript of records in English or German of all your studies to date including Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. 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 are 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.