The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) will as of now provide regular updates on the state of Swiss participation in EU Research Framework Programmes on their new dedicated website. Furthermore, you can find a regularly updated Q & A helping you with your burning questions.

The Federal Assembly gave SERI a mandate to verify the cost effectiveness and impact of full Swiss participation in research framework programmes sponsored by the European Union.

The new President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, considers climate change as both the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity of our time.  Shortly after taking office in December 2019, she announced “The European Green Deal” – a strategy paper outlining the ambition to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent.