# Visiting Scholars

**Source**: https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars.html
**Parent**: https://www.research.uzh.ch/de.html

If you are visiting UZH as a researcher while on leave from your home institution, you will most likely be here as visiting scholar (visa status: academic guest).

## Welcome Services for Visiting Scholars (Academic Guests)

The institutes/clinics are responsible for selecting and issuing an invitation. The inviting institutes/clinics also provide the infrastructure (workplace, e-mail, telephone, keys, UZH guest card, etc.).

[Services for Visiting Scholars](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/services.html)

The necessary entry and residence documents are organized by the visiting scholars themselves or by the inviting institutes/clinics.

- If the visiting scholar applies for the visa, you may find further information regarding visa and entry here:\
  [Visa, Entry and Residence Permit](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visa.html)
- If your institute/clinic applies for the visa, your institute/clinic finds further information regarding application process here:\
  [Guidelines for Visiting Scholars](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/for-uzh-staff.html)

Further information on relocation can be found here:\
[Relocation to Switzerland](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/relocation.html)

## Principles

- You have at least a Master's diploma
- You want to pursue a research project at UZH for a certain period
- You stay enrolled and/or employed at your home institution during the visit at UZH
- As a visiting scholar you are not employed by or enrolled at UZH and thus not entitled to a regular salary or a transcript of records from UZH (no modules can be booked)
- You can stay at UZH for up to 24 months (limited by the migration authorities)
- If you apply for a visa, you apply for the status "academic guest"

## Additional Information

### Contact

For questions and further information regarding invitation, selection process and infrastructure (workplace, e-mail, telephone, keys, UZH guest card, etc.), please contact your host institute / clinc.

### Information for Staff Managers of UZH Institutes and Clinics

- [Guidelines for Visiting Scholars](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/for-uzh-staff.html "Guidelines for Visiting Scholars")

### Senior Fellowship Collegium Helveticum

The Senior Fellowships enable guest professors, sabbatical visitors or longer term academic guests, including artists in residence, to spend between a minimum of three and up to ten months at the Collegium Helveticum. Applications are reviewed three times per year.

- [Senior Fellowship Collegium Helveticum](https://collegium.ethz.ch/fellowships/senior-fellowship "Senior Fellowship Collegium Helveticum")

## Quicklinks and available languages

### Subpages of Visiting Scholars

- [Services for Visiting Scholars](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/services.html)
- [Relocation to Switzerland](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/relocation.html)
- [For UZH Staff (EN)](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/for-uzh-staff.html)
- [For UZH Staff (DE)](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/for-uzh-staff-de.html)

- [Services for Visiting Scholars](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/services.html)
- [Relocation to Switzerland](https://www.internationals.uzh.ch/en/visit/visiting-scholars/relocation.html)