Innosuisse Switzerland-Korea Call 2024

Participants from Switzerland and South Korea are invited to submit joint project proposals for research and development of innovative products and applications with a strong market potential in Switzerland and South Korea. The call is open to South Korean and Swiss collaborators and encourages innovation in, but not limited to, the following technologies:

• Biotech; MedTech
• Digitalisation; Industry 4.0; IoT, Artificial Intelligence
• Additive manufacturing
• Smart Materials / Innovative Surfaces
• Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Hydrogen Technologies
• Renewable Energy & Batteries

• The project duration must be between 18 and 36 months.
• The project consortium must include at least one business entity from each country (South Korea and Switzerland) and one research institute from either South Korea or Switzerland. If the Swiss applicant is an individual start-up (pre-market and <50 FTE), the research institute requirement is waived.
• Participation of other research organisations and other commercial companies from both countries is welcome in accordance with the funding regulations of each country.
• The research organisations and commercial companies must comply with the regulations of their respective countries.
• To ensure that projects promote genuine international collaboration rather than internal company research, affiliated companies will be considered as a single entity under the parent company. Each South Korean registered organisation involved in an application must be a separate legal entity, not linked to the Swiss partners or vice versa.
• The project must demonstrate relevant innovation content, added value and benefit from the bilateral cooperation in both countries.
• No country can contribute more than 70% of the total person-months to the project. Person-months is the measure of the time in months that staff will devote to the project.
• A draft consortium agreement, including intellectual property rights (IPR), must be submitted with the proposal.
• Both agencies will only consider project costs incurred in their country as eligible. Cross-border funding is not foreseen.

• Korean participants must submit a KIAT application 
• Swiss participants must submit an Innosuisse application via Innolink including:
  draft consortium agreement (not signed)
  • common proposal document (DOCX, 811 kB, 05.02.2024)
  • financial viability check documents (annual account statements for the last two years
  • Innosuisse financial excel sheet (XLSX, 110 kB, 05.02.2024)) per implementation partner with <250 FTE

• International projects with South Korea and the local partner Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT).
• Guidelines Bilateral Call 2024 (PDF, 315 kB, 09.02.2024)  (for complete details including amount and eligible costs).