Program development and Coordination
Academic institutions
The academic institutions have developed and are continuously improving the CONNECT program. They are responsible for project coordination, advertisement of the program within their institution, and the selection process. In addition, participating institutions support each participant with a CHF 750 institutional fee to make the program more affordable to the early career researchers.
If you would like to reach out to the CONNECT contact person at your institution, click on the respective logo.
industry and public sector
Partners from Industry and Public Sector
The success of the CONNECT program is built on meaningful interactions between scientists eager to explore career options, and role models and company representatives who share their experiences. A big thank you to all the role models for their openness and willingness to share personal career stories, the challenges they have faced, and how they overcame them. We are also grateful to the company representatives for giving our participants a behind-the-scenes look at their recruitment processes and providing insights into their daily work.
Get to know our current and past partners:
Construction is one of the largest industries globally. It plays a central role in the world economy; it creates jobs for millions of people, provides housing to almost everyone living on our planet, and builds commercial, industrial, and civil infrastructures that enable economic growth. The industry, however, faces significant challenges. It has yet to deliver productivity over the past decades. Skilled labor is in short supply, and health and safety issues are abundant on job sites. Carbon emissions are high and continue to rise.
In the face of these challenges, construction is transforming. Enabled by digitalization, construction is industrializing. Workflows are becoming more efficient and effective and will increasingly deliver productivity. Sustainability is essential for our customer’s success, and safety is moving up the agenda. Construction is becoming more productive, safer, and more sustainable. In short, construction is becoming better.
Hilti is ideally positioned to be this partner. With our focus on innovation, we help our customers to do things better. That is why we have defined Making Construction Better as our purpose. Better means improved productivity, safety, and sustainability. We want to be our customers’ best partner for productivity, safety, and sustainability and deliver better applications, projects, processes, and experiences.
At Hilti, our objective is value creation through leadership, built on differentiation and direct customer relationships. Value creation goes beyond economic value. We create value not only for our shareholders but also for our customers, suppliers and partners, team members, and society.
Our passionate and inclusive global team is at the core of our success. Together with the Hilti Foundation, we build a better future.
A diverse and inclusive workforce with females in leadership positions creates a great workplace and delivers superior business results. At a high-tech and innovation-oriented company, Ph.D. graduates and postdocs from top institutions are provided excellent opportunities to further develop, network, and gain experience exchange.
Our Corporate Research and Technology (CR&T) department has excellent opportunities for upstream technology development. In our Business Units, we offer roles in product development as a research or development engineer and the opportunity to grow into leadership positions in the respective field.
Reach out to your Hilti contact or check out our openings under Careers made real | Hilti Careers
Leadership skills, cross-department collaboration, a strong people orientation, a goal-driven, outcome-focused, and growth mindset.
We will ensure that the CONNECT participants have a personal Hilti contact to identify opportunities together at Hilti. A strong motivational letter and professional CV are prerequisites for a successful application. We have collected a few tips from some of the Hilti people you might meet to help you prepare for your interview.
FHNW
Get to know careers at FHNW, a representative university of applied sciences. What options do you have combining research, teaching and industry collaboration?
Park Innovaare
As one of six innovation parks of Switzerland Innovation, the Park Innovaare promotes the exchange between science and industry. We connect technology-oriented start-ups/spin-offs, SMEs, and R&D departments of established companies with the cutting-edge research of our strategic partners - Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW - and offer state-of-the-art labs and office space that is optimally tailored to your requirements.
