UK-Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D round 2

Opportunity for collaborative R&D partnerships with Swiss innovators

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is working with the Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse to invest up to £4 million and a minimum of CHF 3 million respectively into innovation projects.

This competition is open to UK and Swiss collaborators and encourages innovation in emerging technology fields, including - but not limited to - life sciences, artificial intelligence, semiconductor applications, and quantum technologies.

The goal is to develop and implement new innovations and applications across various sectors. 

Projects must have an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the cooperation between the participants, from the two jurisdictions. These advantages can include:

• increased innovation capability
• commercial leads
• access to research and development (R&D) infrastructure
• new fields of application

Your project's total grant funding request must not exceed £450,000 for UK participants or CHF 450,000 for Swiss participants.

Innovate UK will grant fund successful UK applicants. Your project's total grant funding request must not exceed £450,000. 

UK project partners must carry out most of their project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK. You must collaborate with at least one Swiss implementation partner applying under the equivalent Swiss Innosuisse programme.

Read more about the UK-Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D round 2 competition.

Applicant briefing and matchmaking support

Potential applicants can register to attend an online briefing on Monday 29 January 2024. A recording will be available after the event.

If you'd like to search and profile project opportunities, or find partners for this call, you can register on Innovate UK's partner matching platform. You can meet other participants on this website until 15 April 2024.

First published 25 January 2024