As we approach a long weekend, we add a couple of more days to apply to feminno, you now can apply till August 2.

Happy to see many applications flying in!

Call 6 of feminno is now open for application. The deadline to apply is July 29, 2022.

To see whether you qualify and to learn how to apply, see information here.

Loooking forward to get lots of application and starting a new round of feminno with dedicated female researchers and their innovative research topics.

This is your chance to become the next femaler founder – don’t be shy and apply!

You are not sure whether feminno is the right program for you? Then join our info session on May 31 at 5:30 PM in Zoom and learn more about this and other programs dedicated to careers for female scientists and researchers.

https://uzhcareer.ch/de/events/detail/?id=9c4df8a6-c7bb-ec11-8103-96bbf9ae545e

feminno call 5 is over!!

A big thank you to the participating 17 women of call 5. Thanks for your contribution, your commitment and your engagement. All the best for the future!

We are thankful to our sponsors who supported this call 5. CSL Behring, DSM, EY and Roche and to the friends of feminno OILS and DeBord.

Interested to be part of call 6 which starts in Sept 2022? Then please sign up here or follow-us on LinkedIn, not to miss out.

Call 5 of feminno has started in Sept 2021 with 17 women from Swiss Universities with a variety of promising start-up ideas. We are half way through the program and learnt about innovation, business canvas, patents, pitching, funding and career engagement. Next on the agenda: Value-based design of a company, negotiation and company visits.

Want to learn more about us? Follow-us on LinkedIn.

Call 5
Opens: 7 June 2021
Closes: 10 August 2021 (NEW DATE!)
Notification of acceptance:
16 August 2021

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On June 22, 2021 we held an info event to give insights into the feminno program and other programs dedicated to female researchers.
Please find the slide kit here.

Dr. Ute Budliger who was coordinating the feminno program is
taking a new challenge at Syngenta Crop Protection in Stein. We deeply thank Ute for her passion and engagement building up this vibrant career program.

From October 2020, Dr. Daniela Gunz will take over. Daniela Gunz holds a PhD in biochemistry from the ETH in Zurich. She has 15 years of experience in clinical research and drug development in big pharma with an extensive network in the Swiss clinical research environment. She has been working in a start-up in digital health for the last 6 years, with broad knowledge of the Swiss (health) start-up scene. She now works as student counselor and project manager at the Career Services and at the Student Advisory Services of University of Zurich. She co-founded hermelin gmbh in
2016 and consults in clinical research, digital health and organizational development. Additional assignments include board membership at Women in Digital Health Switzerland, advisory board membership of EUPATI Switzerland and co-lead at MyData Zurich hub.

Successful Innovation. A Guideline for Female Scientists in the Life Sciences at Swiss Universities. Ute Budliger and Melanie Paschke (eds.). With contributions by: Ute Budliger, Manuela Dahinden, Carl Emerson, Roger Gfroerer, Daniela Gunz, Christiane Löwe, Tanja Neve-Seyfarth, Melanie Paschke, Isabelle Siegrist, Carolin Strobl. Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000443822

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We are proud to announce that 22 new participants have started the feminno programme from all disciplines of the life sciences.

Call 4
Opens: 7 June 2020
Closes: 30 July 2020
Notification of acceptance:
10 August 2020

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