Your project
Your project must:
- have a maximum grant funding request of £400,000 from each country
- start on 1 January 2024
- end by 31 December 2026
- last between 18 months and 36 months
This competition is open to UK – Switzerland collaborations only.
UK leads
To lead a project from the UK side your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size
- collaborate with at least one Swiss registered business of any size
- involve at least one research organisation from either country
- carry out the majority of its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
The consortium must include at least one business registered in Switzerland that is a separate, non-linked entity. In order to receive any grant funding and continue as a feasible project, the project proposal must be successful on both sides of the consortium. If selected UK participants will receive grant funding from Innovate UK and Swiss participants if selected will receive grant funding from Innosuisse.
UK participants must be part of an application submitted to Innovate UK. Swiss partners must submit a parallel application to the Innosuisse programme.
Read the full brief on eligibility and application processes on the Innovation Funding Service platform.
Switzerland leads
Up to CHF 2 million from Innosuisse, has been allocated to fund Swiss organisations for innovation projects in this bilateral call.
For Swiss organisations, one application for each project must be submitted, before the submission deadline 26 July 2023 17:00 hrs.
Your full application consists of the joint call document and a submission of the national applications at Innovate UK and Innosuisse.
The completed application for Swiss partners must be submitted to Innosuisse (in English) as described in the call guidelines. The submission is made on the web-based submission portal of Innosuisse.
You must also upload the completed Joint Call Document as an attachment on the Innosuisse submission portal.
