Funders and Partners

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​The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is Switzerland’s foremost research funding organisation and supports basic research in all academic disciplines.

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) within the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) is the Swiss government’s ministry arm for education, research and innovation policy.

Innosuisse is Switzerland’s national innovation agency and promotes science-based innovation.


Partners

Euresearch is the Swiss network providing targeted information related to European research and innovation programmes. The network is composed of a Network Office in Bern – which hosts all National Contact Points (NCP) – and regional offices. 

Movetia, is the Swiss agency for exchange and mobility and implements the Swiss solution for Erasmus+.

swissuniversities is the Swiss Rectors’ Conference of Higher Education Institutions, including research universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education.​

The Mission of Switzerland to the European Union promotes Switzerland’s interests towards the EU institutions. 

SwissCore is a member of the Informal Group of RTD Li​aison Offices (IGLO), the informal European association of Brussels-based non-profit research and innovation liaison offices. The aim of IGLO is to facilitate and enhance the interaction, information exchange and co-operation between members of IGLO, their national ERI systems and the European institutions on issues related to EU research and technological development (RTD), in particular the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.