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Sandoz Family Foundation supports the new generation of academics

Pully, 26 October 1999 The Sandoz - Family Foundation is launching a programme to help a new generation of academics in five specialist areas of scientific teaching and research. The first two projects will commence at the start of the autumn 2000 semester in the fields of life sciences, excluding medicine, and economics. In the following years, projects will be launched in the fields of physics, chemistry and history.

From the start of the autumn 2000 semester, the Sandoz - Family Foundation will guarantee the funding of the annual salary of two assistant professors and two full-time assistants, as well as the expenditure for the basic equipment of a work area (laboratory equipment, computers etc.) for both teams. Each team will be supported for a maximum of four years. In 2001 and 2002, a team of two persons will be added each year, resulting in total annual expenditure of more than one million francs.

Invitation to tender restricted to French-speaking Switzerland
The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchatel and the Federal College of Technology, Lausanne, are authorised to present their candidates. The chosen universities must ensure the availability of appropriate premises, as well as integration into an existing institute, laboratory or research group. This programme to support a new generation of academics is co-ordinated with the current initiatives of the Federal government and the Swiss National Research Fund. The Foundation's initiative is particularly welcome at a time when the Federal government and the cantons have signalled their increasing difficulties in providing adequate funding for their universities, while at the same time support for a new generation of academics is recognised as a top priority.

The programme will be monitored by a board consisting of Charles Kleiber, Under-secretary of State for Science and Research, Heidi Diggelmann, President of the Swiss National Research Fund, Pierre Ducrey, former vice-chancellor of the university of Lausanne, as well as two representatives of the Sandoz - Family Foundation. Pierre Ducrey, in his capacity as 'Delegate of the Sandoz - Family Foundation to the academic support programme' will be responsible for the launch and implementation of the project.

Patronage with tradition
In the past, the Sandoz - Family Foundation has mainly established a reputation in the arts and culture, as well as in protecting our national heritage. With its new project, the Foundation intends to contribute towards ensuring that Switzerland's first-class reputation in teaching and research will be protected in the future.

Further information:

• Prof. Pierre Ducrey, Delegate of the Sandoz - Family Foundation to the academic support programme, 41 21 692 30 41
• Jörg Denzler, press spokesman, Tel. 41 21 721 13 36