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Switzerland
About this country
Switzerland is among the founding countries of EUREKA and chaired the initiative in 1994/1995. With its market oriented bottom-up approach, EUREKA complements both the Swiss innovation promotion system and the thematic calls of the European Framework Programme for Research and Development. EUREKA offers valuable prospects for international collaboration for Swiss industry, especially SMEs.
The Swiss EUREKA office, administrated by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, advises project applicants on all aspects of European collaboration. Eureka Switzerland doesn’t provide dedicated funding for Eureka projects. Instead the projects are matched with a suitable open national funding instrument. Close collaboration is maintained with the main funding agencies in Switzerland. Interested parties download and complete the Eureka application form. Afterwards they contact the Swiss Eureka office to identify the suitable funding instrument.
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Tab 1: Country data
The dashboard summarises country activity in the EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters instruments from 2013-17. The user can select the country by using the selector in the top right corner.
Number of projects and total (public and private) investment/costs are shown in the bar charts at the top of the dashboard. Organisation type (bar) and technology/market area (pie) are shown on the bottom left. The user can switch between technology and market area using the control.
Technology and market areas:
The collaboration map in the bottom right side shows the number of collaborations between the selected country and other countries across the three instruments. The user can zoom into the map to identify the number of collaborations with each country. If more than one organisation from a country participates in a project, this is counted as one country collaboration (project-level).
Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Tab 2: Programme overview
The dashboard displays an overview of EUREKA activity across the three instruments - EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters – from 2013-17.
The user can select the preferred indicator - number of projects or total investment (€m) - using the control in the top right corner. Clicking on a row, column or cell in the table to filters the map below.
Clicking on a country in the map filters the table above. Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Projects are attributed to years as follows:
- Network projects: year of project endorsement by EUREKA
- Eurostars: call year
- Clusters: year of labelling (data includes labelled projects which are not yet running)
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