Scholars-at-Risk Fellowship

The Collegium Helveticum is committed to intellectual freedom and the freedom to question and exchange ideas. The privilege of academic freedom enjoyed by the fellows at the Collegium Helveticum creates a responsibility beyond the local institutional framework. Therefore, the Collegium decided in 2022 to join both the international and the Swiss Scholars at Risk networks and reach out to scholars and scientists facing the threat of political persecution. With the financial support of the OPO Foundation and the Foundation for Basic Research in Human Sciences (SHG Foundation), the Collegium offers fellowship for scholars at risk up to a maximum of 6 months of full-time employment. Currently the Collegium has no open call for applications.

If you are hosted as scholar at risk at one of the Collegium’s supporting institutions, you can apply as a scholar at risk for a senior fellowship to participate one day per week (with a contribution to your costs of living of CHF 1’000 per month and a budget for organizing a public event of up to CHF 800 per month) in the Collegium’s fellowship program. Please find more information following the link to the senior fellowship program above.