Swiss-EU success stories

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.