Success stories

Empa is using AI to unlock Europe’s underused hardwoods, helping the EU project TIMBERHAUS build a more diverse, resilient timber industry.

Swiss support for the European Research Area: SNSF Programmes implemented under the Second Swiss Contribution.

DICED turns scattered intergovernmental education policy texts into searchable evidence, thereby helping education policymakers trace debates, actors, and trends.

With swype, Swiss VET graduates can combine language learning and internships abroad, making VET mobility more accessible and attractive than ever.

Global cooperation of a Swiss-born start-up to transform coral restoration worldwide and contribute to local expertise to regenerate threatened ecosystems.

Prof. Dr. David Loeffler’s ERC grant strengthens Swiss–EU research ties and advances number theory, highlighting cross-border scientific collaboration.

Swiss bioinformatics excellence strengthens EU research, from cancer data platforms to genomic tools for biodiversity and conservation.

The Horizon project STOPP aims to reduce waste in food packaging. The Swiss partner reCIRCLE brings critical expertise and business experience to the consortium.

Discover how Oxara has developed cement-free alternatives by transforming excavation material and demolition waste into new sustainable construction materials.

HES-SO participates in the UNITA University Alliance, advancing Swiss presence in European academic collaboration.

REAL, co-led by Prof. Steinberger from the University of Lausanne, explores post-growth economic models for social well-being and environmental sustainability.

The BIAS project brings Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) to the fight against algorithmic bias in AI recruitment and develops tools for fair hiring. 

​​Swiss researchers at Eawag are contributing to an EU-wide partnership for chemical risk assessment aimed at protecting human health and the environment​. 

EPFL spin-off Bloom Biorenewables transforms agricultural waste into sustainable chemicals, offering cost-effective alternatives to fossil-based products.

The first Swiss CoVE innoVET boosts innovation in VET by fostering international collaboration, developing practical tools and building networks across Europe.

The road to measuring GHG emissions in urban spaces: How the City of Zurich – at the heart of an EU-funded project – is paving the way.

Led by FiBL Switzerland, SustainSahel promotes sustainable agriculture by combining agroforestry’s integrative approach with a strong participatory design.

Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, celebrates 10 years of successful collaborative research in the Graphene Flagship.

An innovative Horizon Europe project with a Swiss research institute seeks to enhance the cultural sphere by seamlessly blending it with immersive technologies.

FiBL, a Swiss organic research centre, and FiBL Europe bring together 37 organisations across 16 European countries to make organic from seed to plate a reality.

PAMAfrica, a global MMV-led research consortium, is developing treatments for babies under 5kg, severe malaria and drug-resistant uncomplicated malaria.

The rapid digitalisation requires the right skills. The successful Erasmus+ project VIBES created training courses for effective virtual collaboration.

Newlife is an ambitious KDT JU project aiming to secure the health of mothers and their babies by developing novel holistic monitoring solutions.

The digital transformation places new demands on our teachers. Switzerland aims to provide them with the necessary competences, some inspiration comes from the EU.

The ERC-funded project Locus Ludi explores the role of games in ancient societies and what they could teach us nowadays – a short retrospect reveals the impressive results.

15 early-stage researchers, one common goal: advancing knowledge in human-machine interaction for education. The contribution of a Swiss lab and its PhD students.

How the Swiss pharmaceutical industry supported a crucial research topic: Autism research in the EU-AIMS and AIMS-2-TRIALS projects.

By combining expertise and financial power, Europe starts to catch up in the global race of high-performance computing – and Switzerland is part of it.

A European consortium further develops a Swiss solid-to-energy technology that faces climate change by solving the seasonal energy gap.

Participation in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) supports spreading excellence to increase brain circulation.

The story of InCephalo: How a Swiss company, supported by an EU funding programme, is fighting brain cancer globally.

Thanks to the strong EIT Food consortium Phenoliva, the Swiss ETH spin-off Gaia Technologies is close to achieving full circularity in the olive oil production.

The ETH Zurich and EPFL were involved in the creation of the Bulgarian Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT).

Video-based learning can be effective and collaborative. The ViSuAL knowledge alliance with Swiss participation demonstrates how to do it.

Swiss and EU education actors co-developed a tool-kit providing effective and practical methods to reduce the dropout rate in adult education.

In November 2021, a Consortium of ETH Zurich and partners won the 22nd Energy Globe World Award with the SUN-to-LIQUID project.

In October 2021, the EIC Fund awarded a €1 million grant to SwissDeCode, a Swiss start-up providing rapid, on-site food testing solutions.

The EC supports SMEs in the adoption of blockchain and related technologies with different initiatives. Switzerland takes an important role in this ecosystem.

In March 2021, the EU-funded biotech company Gain Therapeutics successfully entered the NASDAQ stock market. We had the opportunity to chat with the president.

Since October 2019, the EU-funded project WiPLASH is delivering on disruptive wireless on-chip communication. And Swiss knowledge is a crucial part of it.

Founder of the Swiss biotech company AMAL Therapeutics received the Women Innovator’s Prize for her cancer vaccine research.

IBM’s Zurich lab leads effort to solve a major challenge for the next generation of IoT devices, computers and supercomputers: reducing energy consumption.

“The strongest driver for change is a motivated person”, says the Managing Director of the newly inaugurated ETH AI Centre, Dr. Alexander Ilic.

The innovative and sustainable start-up Vatorex has developed a chemical-free solution for saving bees and received €1.6m from the Horizon 2020 programme.

A capacity building scheme between Switzerland and Croatia is connecting Croatian research and innovation intensive companies with cross-border value chains.

A tenure track programme between Switzerland and Croatia giving young researchers the opportunity to lead an own research group helps tackle brain drain.

The KEEN project supports Kaunas University of Technology in becoming an entrepreneurial R&I excellence hub. Also on board is the University of St Gallen.

Experimental immunologist Ondrej Štěpánek holds a prestigious ERC grant, building on a unique Swiss fund for Eastern European scientists.

A longstanding Bulgarian-Swiss collaboration in geoscience promotes research and helps finding solutions to the depletion of mineral deposits.

The unique Swiss funding scheme PROMYS gives Edit Mátyus and other Eastern European scientists the possibility to build research groups in their home countries.