Seen from Brussels

This year’s SwissCore annual event explored the importance of international cooperation with the EU and trusted, like-minded partners to foster innovation.

“The current geopolitical context […] reinforces the need for strengthened cooperation with like-minded partners such as Switzerland.”

EU education ministers agree on their future Erasmus+ position and exclude partial association for countries that have been part of Erasmus+ in the past.

Recent amendments to the FP10 proposal introduce a new category of ‘trusted partners’ to improve research predictability, quality, and collaboration.

The Swiss government, the Federal Council, adopted a package of new agreements with the EU to stabilise and further develop the Swiss-EU relations.

The debate around EU Preference is intensifying further as EU leaders meet for a turning point retreat in a historic Belgian castle.

With the beginning of a new year, a new EU country takes the helm of the Council of the EU. The Cypriot government starts their presidency in turbulent times.

Several European university associations propose amendments for FP10 to simplify association and collaboration with UK and Switzerland.

After four long years of exclusion, Switzerland is finally back in Horizon Europe, with full association retroactively effective from 1 January 2025.

EU Member States approve the Swiss association to Horizon; while also agreeing to dual use in the EIC with a provision that could exclude non-EU countries.