In 2011, ThinkSwiss offers travel grants to U.S. participants of seven Swiss Summer Schools:

• EPFL Lausanne, School of Life Sciences Summer Research Scholar Program 2011
• University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS) 2011
• University of Basel, Institute of Nursing Science 2011 Summer School - Applied Patient Safety: real data, real tools, real solutions
• University of Bern, NCCR Climate Summer School 2011 - Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change
• EPFL Lausanne, Architecture Section Summer School 2011 - Desperate Houses - CANCELLED
• ETH Zurich, Vision and Sports Summer School 2011
• Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, Architecture Summer School 2011 - Environmentally Responsive Building Envelopes

The participants will benefit from hands-on research, training and exposure to cutting-edge issues within a professional research community. Awardees of the travel grants will be asked to share their experiences by contributing to the ThinkSwiss Brainstorm Blog.

The selection of all participants is done by each summer school. Please apply directly to the individual program.

EPFL Lausanne, School of Life Sciences: Summer Research Scholar Program 2011 
The Life Sciences summer research program, organized at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), offers intensive research training opportunities to talented undergraduate students ïnterested in research careers in the life sciences. lt provides the participants with unique opportunities for hands-on laboratory research experience under the supervision of distinguished faculty/researchers and also seeks to enrich the participants experience outside the laboratory through their participation in a series of seminars (e.g. ethics, planning a scientific career), social activities, and informal interactions with members of the scientific community at the EPFL.
July 4 to  August 26, 2011
http://sv.epfl.ch/page-26589-en.html 
Application deadline: February 15, 2011

University of Zurich and ETH Zurich: Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS) 2011
The Zurich Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS) is a joint initiative of the University of Zurich (UZH) and ETH Zurich (ETHZ). This 9-week international program gives undergraduate students in the life sciences the chance to perform a significant research project in one of the participating laboratories of UZH or ETHZ. Thanks to the intense curriculum of the BUSS, participating students not only become familiar with laboratory methods and theoretical principles, but also gain skills in scientific reasoning and scientific communication.
July 1 to August 31, 2011
http://www.biologie.uzh.ch/Studium/Studiengang/UndergraduateSummerSchool.html
Application deadline: March 1, 2011

University of Basel, Institute of Nursing Science: 2011 Summer School - Applied Patient Safety: real data, real tools, real solutions
This summer school provides comprehensive patient safety and quality improvement concepts and methods. The training prepares doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in nursing and related fields as well as nurses and physicians in leadership and/or quality management positions with the frameworks, data, and tools that are needed to facilitate patient safety efforts at the unit/clinical area level.
August 15 to August 19, 2011
http://nursing.unibas.ch/weiterbildung/seminare-kurse/
Application deadline: March 31, 2011

University of Bern, NCCR Climate: Summer School 2011 - Climate Change, Extremes and Ecosystems Services
The NCCR Climate, Switzerland's centre of excellence in climate and climate impact research, invites young scientists to join leading climate researchers in a scenic southern Swiss Alpine setting for keynote lectures, workshops and poster sessions on the occasion of the 10th NCCR Climate Summer School 2011. The topics covered at the NCCR Climate Summer School 2011 will include:
• Ecological implications of climate change and weather extremes
• Ecosystem services and climate change: forests, grasslands and croplands
• Food security: coping with climate change in agriculture
• Global land and water use in a changing climate 
September 4 to September 11, 2011
http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2011/index_en.html
Application deadline: January 31, 2011

EPFL Lausanne, Architecture Section: Summer School 2011 - Desperate Houses
EPFL Lausanne decided to renounce organizing the Summer School "Desperate Houses" this summer. One of the main reasons is that they were in relationship with a Japanese university as one of the partner universities on this project. In the light of the tragic events that occurred they are obliged to renounce to it. At the same time, one of the three organizers and teachers had to give up his participation for medical reasons. Thank you for your understanding.

ETH Zürich Vision and Sports Summer School 2011
Vision and Sports is a special special kind of summer school. In  addition to a broad-range of lectures on state-of-the-art Computer Vision techniques, it offers exciting sport activities, such as Floorball, Climbing, and Table Tennis. Sports are organized by the same internationally renowned experts who deliver the lectures. The school offers the best of both worlds to participants: high-quality teaching on Computer Vision, and lots of fun with a variety of attractive sports. This offers plenty of opportunity for personal contact between students and teachers.
August 22 to August 26, 2011
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/summerschool2011/
Application deadline:  May 10, 2011

Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, Architecture Summer School 2011 - Environmentally Responsive Building Envelopes
The main ecological goal in architecture today is to reduce to a minimum – ideally to zero – the total primary energy needs of a building (i.e. the energy consumption for heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting).  The design of an environmentally responsive building envelope must be based on energy concepts which enable an interaction between the envelope, the building and the environment. This design task can only be tackled by means of an integrated approach to planning i.e. interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, facade and environmental engineers. In addition to practicing of the design of responsive building envelopes by means of integrated planning, visits of built examples will be organized. Lectures and design studios will take place during 1st and 3rd week. During the 2nd week the class will be traveling to London. A detailed programm is available on the website.
July 11 to July 29, 2011
http://www.arc.usi.ch/summer_school_program-4.pdf
Application deadline: April 16, 2011