[ Innosuisse GO GLOBAL - Bilateral cooperation between Switzerland and Sweden: Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative (SWII) Call 2019 | Research funding ]

Switzerland and Sweden face common challenges in their high-tech industries. In 2013 both countries initiated the Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative SWII. SWII is an industrial R&D partnering program with the objective to increase market oriented high-technology R&D projects between Switzerland and Sweden. SWII gathers the most technology intensive MNEs, SMEs and academia two to three times a year and issues bilateral calls for R&D project proposals within EUREKA & Eurostars.
 
The deadline for the ninth Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative (SWII) Call for R&D Project Outlines will be 29 November 2019 (Call document).
The Call is open to all topics of the Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative (SWII), but focuses on Digitalisation (Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality).
 
The aim of the SWII calls is to provide applicants:

• Partnering opportunities
• Recommendations on suitable EUREKA funding mechanisms
• Guidance on how to prepare a high quality proposal

• Partners are encouraged to submit a short Project Outline, which can be downloaded from the SWII homepage http://www.swii.org/images/EUREKA_Project_Outline.doc
• The completed project outlines of phase 1 should be submitted to the national EUREKA offices of the participating partners simultaneously (contacts below) by email to contact persons at Innosuisse (Swiss Innovation Agency) and Vinnova with copy to all partners of the project outline. The submission deadline is 29 November 2019.
• The outlines will be screened by the EUREKA offices in Sweden and Switzerland and the partners will be provided with a detailed feedback as well as additional recommendations within the shortest possible delay after the submission (about 2 weeks).
• Partners with approved outlines will be recommended to submit their full applications to the EUREKA instrument (Network/Eurostars/Cluster) that best suits their project.Eurostars for R&D performing SME ́s is the most popular Eureka instrument.
• The national EUREKA offices in Sweden and Switzerland will assist on how to submit full applications.

• Call announcement
• Call document
• Innosuisse
• In support of the ninth call, the list of related events can be found here.

• The Swiss EUREKA office at the Innosuisse:
  Mr. Janique Siffert (main contact), +41 58 466 70 70, [email protected] 
  Ms. Colette John-Grant (EUREKA and Eurostars), +41 58 466 77 32, [email protected]

• The Swedish EUREKA office at Vinnova:
  Mr. Peter Lindberg, +46 8 473 31 93, [email protected] 
  Mr. Tero Stjernstoft, +46 8 473 32 96, [email protected]
  Mr. Lars Gustafsson, +46 8 473 32 12, [email protected]