EUREKA MEMBER > Switzerland

FUNDING SCHEME

Funding in Switzerland

The main funding agency is the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) which has an annual budget of around CHF 100 million. CTI provides funding to market-oriented R&D projects with at least 1 company and 1 public R&D institution working together to develop products and services. Grants are awarded to the public R&D institution. The company benefits from exploitation of the project results.

>  Grants (applicable to both EUREKA individual projects and EUREKA Cluster projects)

Funding contact

Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology
+41 31 322 11 07

Andreas Gut
andreas.gut@bbt.admin.ch

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General procedures

Bottom-up scheme: any topics are open at any time. The evaluation is conducted at national level by CTI experts. A preliminary evaluation, based on the EUREKA application form, is recommended. The evaluation lasts 1 month from submission to final result. Ten evaluation dates per year are available for each of the 4 main sectors: (a) engineering, (b) enabling sciences, (c) life sciences, (d) micro- nanotechnologies.

Restrictions

Companies get no grants. Funding is provided to market-oriented R&D projects with at least 1 company and 1 public R&D institution working together to develop products and services.

Type of funding

grant

Funding by type of organisation

Type of organisation Funding % of
elligible costs 		Maximum costs
(in EUR) 		Additional
information
SME00Share 50% of project costs with R&D institution and get IPR
Large Company00Share 50% of project costs with R&D institution and get IPR
University
Research Organisation100< 1 million CHFConcerns R&D Institutions / Share 50% of project costs with company and get grants
Other