Promotion of Swiss Space Technologies

We wish to inform you that the Call for Proposals 2018 organised by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI/Swiss Space Office (SSO) for the promotion of Swiss competences related to space activities, is now open.
 
The main objectives of this Call for Proposals (also referred to as Mesure de Positionnement pour le spatial) are to foster and to promote Swiss technological and scientific competences that have a clear potential for space products and services/applications. All relevant information, including full details of collaboration possibilities, applicable rules and procedures are accessible at www.sbfi.admin.ch/call2018.
  
The SERI has mandated the Swiss Space Center https://www.spacecenter.ch/activities/fundingopportunities/mdp/ for the implementation of this Call for Proposals. All proposals should be submitted to the Swiss Space Center, by 25 April 2018. The SSO will inform the participants of the outcome of their proposals at the end of August. The selected projects are scheduled to start in November 2018 for a duration of up to 15 months, and can each be awarded a maximum of 250’000.- CHF.