Researchers

FGSE

For a personalised support in fund raising (identification of funding sources, proposal conception, training request), contact the FGSE research consultant Amélie Dreiss.

UNIL central contact for fund

• SNSF Project/Career : Véronique Longchamp
• SNSF Programs : Renzo Restori
• Foundations : Claire Arnold

For European Programs

• Euresearch Office UNIL-CHUV : Anne-Emmanuelle de Crousaz

FGSE Investment Fund (FINV)

For questions or to request a valid version of the guideline, contact the adjoint de faculté FGSE Rémy Freymond.

SNSF and EU offer different schemes at different stages of the career ( Eligibility to the main schemes).

SNSF

• Find an open SNSF call
• Overview of SNSF funding schemes
•  Delay of the main SNSF schemes

European programs

• Find an open H2020 call on Euresearch
• Register to the Euresearch e-alert
•  Delay of the main H2020 calls

Foundations and other funding opportunities

• Find a funding opportunity on UNIL 4 Research
• Find a UNIL Foundation
• Find a funding source in UNIL database
• Find a Foundation on the platform Fundraiso

FGSE Investment Fund (FINV)

The Deanship is committed to supporting through the FINV projects that constitute, in research or research infrastructure, investments for the Faculty. This fund also serves to amortize previous investments by encouraging their replacement when necessary. The fund offers 7 distinct reasons for financing, which can be summarized in 4 categories :

• Projects and infrastructure with 50% matching funds (e.g. SNSF), projects and infrastructure (> CHF 50'000) without matchings (e.g. education),
• Seed funding of projects (outside SNSF standards) capped at CHF 20'000,
• Support for a Faculty workshop,
• Support for projects related to Faculty Centres or international agreements,

One or two campaigns are launched each year and the Research Commission notifies the requests for the Décanat.

 Example of guideline (regularly updated, only the document sent to each campaign is valid)

Young researchers : see also job portals below.

For technical question or general problem on Serval, contact serval_help@unil.ch

For a problem linked to the typing on Serval, contact the FGSE Serval coordinator Nicolas Bourquin.

For questions related to the validation of Serval entries, contact the FGSE staff in charge of validation :

• IGD : Kathia Linde (BCU)
• IDYST & ISTE : Catherine Schlegel Rey (BST)

For a support on fund raising for publication, general questions on OA and author right, a training request, contact the FGSE research consultant Amélie Dreiss.

For a question concerning literature search, contact the staff of the libraries.

Researchers can self-archive their publication in Green OA using Serval, UNIL academic server.

Useful information and guidelines can be found here :

• Using Serval : Tutorials
• Papago : Personalized tool to know  funding possibilities, rights and obligations regarding OA publications.
• Understand OA at UNIL
• Understand author right and self-archiving

To update their publication list on Serval, researchers can :

• Export their publications from WoS (Web of Science) in Endnote format, then import them in Serval.
• Create a link between their ORCID number and Serval in their Unisciences webpage, in order to import their publications to Serval (Video Tutorial UNIL).

Books

Researcher can request SNSF funds for the publication of books or book chapters.

UNIL Researchers can request funds for book OA publication through the Fonds de publications UNIL.

Other publications

SNSF grantees can obtain funding of their articles in scientific journals (see SNSF rules).

For journal articles, UNIL has negotiated special Gold OA publication conditions for its researchers with the following publishers :

• Cogitatio Reviews : APC 100% covered,
• Springer Open and Biomed Central : 15% discount on APC fees

• Bibliothèque ISTE
• Centre de documentation de l’IGD
• Bibliothèque Sion UNIL-UNIGE
• BCU Lausanne

For a support on data management, contact the FGSE research consultant Amélie Dreiss.

For an appointment at UNIRIS in order to prepare a DMP for the SNSF: researchdata@unil.ch.

For questions related to the DCSR services : helpdesk@unil.ch.

• Open research Data at UNIL : Gestion ouverte et raisonnée des données de recherche (in french)
• BIUM du CHUV : Data management & Open Data
• UNIGE : Research Data

• Infos on DMP : Open science at UNIL
•  SNF-DMP Template & Examples
• Guidelines from the FNS

The research data Storing facility from the Scientific Computing and Research Support Unit from the IT Centre (DCSR Ci) offers a NAS to store research data. The responsible research project leaders (Pl) from UNIL can request a storage space for a generic project "fourre-tout" and several identified projects (SNSF, UE, UNIL…). A contribution to the resource cost (see costs) will be  charged to the PI according to the  Ci general conditions.

The DCSR-Ci UNIL offers also a high-performance computing service (HPC) ; UNIL members can request a computing capacity (see operating costs).

The SWITCHdrive service is a Cloud that allows storing, synchronising and sharing files. It is a good alternative solution to Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive: SWITCH data are stored in Switzerland and respect the federal law on data protection (LPD) and UNIL directives.

To find a specialist or generalist data repository, the FNS suggests the use of re3data.org registry.

Commonly used repositories :

• FORS : Swiss repository in social sciences, based at UNIL
• ZENODO : CERN generic repository, free up to a certain volume, accepted by the FNS
• Dryad : Generic repository, free up to a certain volume, accepted by the FNS

For any question or to send a form for a research that you wish to promote, please contact communication-gse@unil.ch.

• Rémy Freymond, Faculty Research Assistant 
• Nicolas Bourquin, Communication Advisor 

For a support concerning Unisciences, personal or team webpage contact : Floriane Beetschen.

For IGD members’ personal webpage contact : Martin Vesely.

The Dicastère Research also promotes projects and publications carried out in the Faculty. We support your communication projects with the media and coordinate them with the Unicom service. We develop with you and, if necessary, format the material you can provide in order to produce a communication, a press release, a news, an article on the geoblog, an editorial, an interview, a diffusion through social networks (e.g. tweet).

You will find below forms (media article & press release) that help you structure the information/research you want to promote and allow us to act quickly. A text provided in French or English that follows the format recommended below may be published and distributed very quickly.

• Formulaire A – Résumé d’article
• Formulaire B – Communiqué de presse

For questions on ethic compliance, contact the FGSE research consultant Amélie Dreiss.

For questions concerning travel abroad or field work security, contact the Faculty Assistant Rémy Freymond.

For questions concerning insurances :

• For collaborators : SRH
• For students : Social Affairs and Student Mobility Office

For questions related to scientific integrity, contact the Délégué FGSE à l'intégrité scientifique Prof. hon. François Marillier.

By fall 2019, researchers performing studies implying human participants will be able to submit their project to a Research Ethics Commission (CER) from FGSE or UNIL (CER-UNIL) before the project starts.

An ethical compliance certificate can be mandatory if requested by some funders or editors. In other cases, the submission of a project to an ethic commission is the researcher’s choice.

•  Regulation of the research ethics commission CER-UNIL

International travels

Researchers going abroad for their research projects should consult the Directive FGSE (see pdf below). This document aims at guiding students, teachers and researchers in planning their activity abroad. Usual rules and good practices are reminded.

 Travaux de recherche impliquant des déplacements à l'étranger
20 novembre 2015

Security and field work

FGSE members organising field work or group trips are responsible for self-assessing the risks for themselves and for the group, prior to departure. The self-assessment process is presented in the following document.

 Directive sur la sécurité et les mesures de protection pour le travail de terrain, sous forme de guideline pour une évaluation autonome et personnelle des risques
16 octobre 2017

 Annexe 1 - Matrice à utiliser pour votre évaluation du risque

 Annexe 2A - Formulaire / Checklist pour étudiants de Bachelor, Master ou doctorants

 Annexe 2A - Formulaire / Checklist pour étudiants de Bachelor, Master ou doctorants

 Annexe 2B - Formulaire / Checklist pour enseignants, chercheurs et/ou PAT

 Annexe 2B - Formulaire / Checklist pour enseignants, chercheurs et/ou PAT

 Annexe 3 - Tableau récapitulatif des risques et recommandations sur la conduite en Suisse et à l’étranger

 Annexe 3 - Tableau récapitulatif des risques et recommandations sur la conduite en Suisse et à l’étranger

As the Unil Directive below points out, integrity is the cornerstone of science credibility and a justification for researchers' freedom within and outside the institution, since scientific fraud jeopardises trust in science as a whole.

Documents and useful information :

•  Scientific integrity in the research domain and procedure to be followed in case of misconduct
• Ethics & deontology : UNIL website
•  Integrity in scientific research. Principles and procedures : Swiss Academies of Arts and Science, 2008
•  Profiles of plagiarizers – analysis report : UNIGE website

For the organisation of an information session or a workshop to complete the existing offer, contact the FGSE research consultant Amélie Dreiss.

For a media course, contact the FGSE communication team Rémy Freymond or Nicolas Bourquin.

• Euresearch – European Programs : Events and workshops about European funding
• Centre de soutien à l’enseignement UNIL : Training for supervisors and teachers
• UNIL IT Centre : Courses at fixed date or upon request

Young researchers : See other specific offers below.

• REGARD : Workshop program for women career in academics
• Equality at UNIL : Support for women career

For a personalised support on career development or to organise an information session or a workshop that complements the existing offer, contact the FGSE research consultant Amélie Dreiss.

• Graduate Campus : Training and support for doctoral candidates and postdocs, to develop their career, spice up their research and meet others in the university Community.
• CUSO : Workshop Program for the development of transversal competences in doctoral candidates.
• Service d'orientation et carrière : Support for the transition to employment.

• UNIL Emploi: UNIL Job Portal
• Funding opportunities for PhD students or Postdocs : UNIL research support website
• EGU Platform : For job seekers to find vacancies in the Earth, planetary and space sciences
• Earthwork-Jobs : Jobs in oil, energy, geoscience, seismology, ecology, sustainable development …
• ECRcentral : A central platform for early-career researchers’ community
• Euraxess : European Commission’s research portal

Vice-Dean for Research
Prof. Christian Kull

Faculty Assistant for Research
Rémy Freymond

Research Consultant
Research Funding, Open Science, Open Access, Research ethics
Amélie Dreiss

Communication Advisor
Valorisation, Serval
Nicolas Bourquin