Grants Office
CTI
In the framework of the economic measures agaist the strong Swiss franc, the CTI has announced new tools for funding. New hourly rates for personnel have been also announced. The EPFL Direction will state on this matter very soon (October 5th) . A new budget calculator will be available on this website.
The Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) provides funding for:
- Market-oriented R&D projects, in which companies and universities work together on to develop products and services.
- The creation and expansion of scientifically-based companies.
- Knowledge and technology transfer through platforms and networks.
These pages provide information to facilitate application for market oriented R&D projects.
The domains that are sponsored are the following:
These programs anticipate collaborative projects beetween companies and universities, in which companies are asked to participate with cash and in-kind contributions that are equivalent to the sum allocated by the CTI.
Further opportunities for project funding are represented by:
Discovery projects represent an interesting opportunity to fund cutting-edge technological ideas that are at the intersection of basic research and applied research and are hampered by a lack of feasibility studies. Due to their unusual nature, these projects cannot be funded by the SNF or through CTI regular programs. In order to be funded, technological ideas must satisfy critera imposed by the CTI.
Feasibility studies represent a more flexible framework for companies that are involved in the project. The cash and in-kind contributions can be handled more flexibly, on a case by case basis. This program has limits on the federal contribution and the duration of the project.