Empa, CSEM and Innosuisse are jointly organising an event on 3 September 2019 at Empa in Dübendorf for the European funding initiative ECSEL. The Joint Technology Initiative for Electronic Components and Systems for the European Leadership (ECSEL) supports transboundary R&D projects in digitalisation, developing marketable products in the fields of micro- and nanoelectronics, system integration and intelligent systems.

Universities and industrial partners including SMEs with a potential interest  are invited to join the event to receive firsthand information and to be well prepared for the next smart systems call of ECSEL in 2020.

The last calls in the area of Advanced Materials and Plastics under Horizon 2020 are approaching.

Join this workshop presented jointly by the Swiss Plastics Cluster and EEN consortium partners Euresearch to get information on the 2020 calls in Advanced Materials and Plastics and hints on how to draft a competitive proposal.

The European Innovation Council - SME instrument Phase 1 are in and once again this programme has proven extremely successful for Swiss applicants with 23 winners making us the second highest recipient country overall.

Since the start of 2018 113 Swiss SMEs have won funding for their project amounting to over 24.3m Euros.

All Phase 1 SME instrument winners receive a €50k cheque to develop their business plan and 3 days of business coaching with top-class experts pre-selected by their local EEN advisors.

Members of Enterprise Europe Network in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France, Catalonia Spain and Switzerland joined in order to identify relevant European Opportunities of development in Smart factory and Industry 4.0. Below you will find a summary of technology and business offers & requests as well as partner search for European Projects.