Mission Statement
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| "Euresearch informs and advises how to access European R&D projects and facilitates technology and innovation partnerships in Europe.
Euresearch is a non profit association, working on mandates of the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) and the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET)." |
Swiss Guide to European Research and Information
We offer
- Targeted information on European R&D and Innovation opportunities
- Hands-on training and advice to access and manage EU R&D and Innovation projects
- Personalised support to establish European Technology and Innovation cooperation
Opportunties for bilateral technology- and innovation cooperation via Enterprise Europe Network
http://www.swisseen.ch/innovation
- online database with 5000 European technology cooperation offers and requests
- promotion of Swiss technology offers / requests - proactive search of cooperation partners in 47 countries
- pre-arranged face2face meetings with potential cooperation partners within existing fairs and congresses
Opportunities for R&D and Innovation Funding via FP7
www.euresearch.ch/sme
- FP7 Cooperation projects
- Multilateral 3-5 years R&D cooperation projects with 3-20 partners
- Any company, large or small, active in Research and Development or interested in exploiting R&D results may participate
- FP7 funding covers 50% of the costs incurred by industry and 75% for SMEs
- R&D topics are predefined for Health – Food, Agriculture, Biotech – Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) – Nanotech, Materials, Processes (NMP) – Energy – Environment – Transport – Space – Security – Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities
- FP7 projects “Research for the benefit of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SME” (“European CTI projects”)
- Multilateral 2-4 years applied R&D projects with 4-8 partners
- Businesses complying with the EU definition of SMEs as well as SME associations, can “mandate” R&D performing organizations to solve a shared problem
- FP7 funding covers the costs of the “mandated” R&D performers
- No predefined R&D topics (bottom-up), but clear focus on market applications for SMEs
- FP7 projects “Marie Curie Actions” (Fellowships for Mobility of Researchers)
- Individual or Multilateral Fellowships for 2-4 years R&D cooperation
- Any company, large or small may participate in a Marie Curie Action, in particular under the "Industry-Academia pathways and partnerships" scheme.
- FP7 funding allows businesses to fund researchers to work for them on a specific subject for a specific period or to participate in exchanges with academia.
- No predefined R&D topics (bottom-up)
- FP7 projects “Infrastructure”
- No predefined R&D topics (bottom-up)
- Bilateral or Multilateral 2-4 years R&D cooperations
- Small or big enterprises owning an infrastructure which is unique in Europe or which would like to access to such infrastructure can participate under this FP7 domain
Furhter opportunties European R&D and Innovation
www.euresearch.ch/opportunities