Call: Swiss Startups Able to Apply for Horizon 2020 SME Instrument

(startupticker.ch, July 01, 2017)

Since the beginning of 2017, the European Union's Horizon 2020 SME (Small-to-Medium Enterprise) instrument allows Swiss SME and startups to apply too. The program has funds over EUR 3 billion with each chosen project to receive EUR 50'000. The SME instrument aims at supporting small-to-medium enterprises having a high potential with innovative ideas being prepared to enter the global market competition. Beginning of July 2017, the first Swiss companies to receive funding were announced: AMPHIRO (cleantech, shower consumption trackers), Daedalean (ICT, autonomous flight control for future personal electrically driven aircrafts), DEPsys (cleantech, platform for smart grid optimizing), and SENSARS NEUROPROSTHETICS (Medtech, neuroprosthesis allowing to feel missing limb again). The money the companies receive is intended to carry out a feasibility study, business support services, and three days of coaching. In the Phase 2, the firms may apply for further funding to bring the ideas to industrial maturity and prepare to enter the market. For further information and application, contact the Euresearch SME Contact Points.