Call for New Projects

The nccr – on the move is seeking to recruit two research teams working on different ways of using the Migration-Mobility Nexus to make sense of contemporary Challenges

The nccr – on the move is recruiting two new research projects for research teams based at Swiss Universities or Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences. The project grants run for two years and will cover a funding envelope by the NCCR amounting to 200’000 Swiss Francs per project.

The project will run from 1 June 2020 to 31 May 2022 (end of Phase II of the nccr – on the move). The project funding can be used to cover the salaries of PostDocs, research associates, and research assistants, and to conduct empirical research in Switzerland and abroad (surveys or fieldwork).

Topics to be Addressed

Recent developments surrounding the worldwide spread of COVID-19 have made the NCCR members aware that they need to broaden the research agenda to reflect more systematically on how to incorporate the temporal dimension, in particular, the occurrence of critical events and mega trends, into the conceptualization of the Migration-Mobility Nexus.

While research has traditionally studied migration and mobility as separate subjects, the nccr – on the move postulates that we cannot fully understand one without considering the other. In the first two Phases I (2014-2018) and II (2018-2022), the researchers in the nccr – on the move have focused on empirically studying and finding a shared understanding of the so-called Migration-Mobility Nexus.

Full call including conditions and eligibility as well as application procedure (PDF)

Deadline for application is 30 April 2020.