Switzerland – Sweden Call for R&D Project

Event details

Date	27.11.2015
Speaker	Secrétariat d'Etat à la formation, à la recherche et à l'innovation (SEFRI/SERI)
Category	Call for proposal

Sweden and Switzerland are jointly announcing a bi-lateral Call for outlines for joint innovation projects under all suitable EUREKA instruments. The Call is open for all SWII topics, but focuses on the development of products and services within:

Life science: no subtopics identified, open for all project ideas within life science
Smart factories: see the list of subtopics identified

Eligible partners are invited to present joint outlines for market-oriented, innovative R&D projects according to the following procedures:

1. Qualifications

The consortium should include at least one SME
The project must have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the cooperation between the participants from the two countries
The project should demonstrate the contribution of the participants from both countries in a balanced way, and the project must be significant to both countries
Partners from other EUREKA countries may also participate. This requires funding from their respective home countries.

2. Submission and the approval procedures will be of two phases:

In the first phase:
- Partners are encouraged to submit a short project outline
- The completed project outlines of the phase 1 should be submitted to the
Eureka offices in Sweden and Switzerland (main contact) simultaneously
with copy to all partners of the project until 27th November 2015,
by email (no physical documents needed).
In the second phase, the partners will be notified of the results within the shortest possible delay after the submission (about 2-3 weeks).
- Partners with approved outlines will be recommended to submit their full
applications according to national procedures to Eureka or international
procedures to Eurostars.
- In cases where Eureka and Eurostars do not seem to be suitable, SERI
and VINNOVA can propose other funding measures.

For further information, please contact the Swiss contact points at SERI:

Mr. Andreas Gut (main contact), +41 58 462 11 07, [email protected]
Ms. Colette John-Grant (EUREKA and Eurostars), +41 58 464 91 43, [email protected]
Mr. Janique Siffert (Eurostars), +41 58 465 46 03, [email protected]
Mr. Stefan Klauser (supportive measures), +41 58 464 64 03, [email protected]