Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative (SWII)
SWII is a joint bilateral initiative with the overall objective to increase market oriented high-technology R&D projects between Switzerland and Sweden.
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Malta Enterprise has led a 15-strong business delegation to the city of Milan, which is one of the major hubs of economic activity in neighbouring Italy.
The Lombardy region is indeed one of the main motors of the Italian economy, on its own contributing more than one fifth of the entire country’s GDP. The region is among those which are trying to lead Italy out of the economic crisis and consequently presents various opportunities.
CTI participating in ERA-NET for the first time
From January 2012 the CTI will be participating in an ERA-NET project in the European Research Area.
The ERASynBio project will run for 36 months and is aimed at developing and coordinating national and regional research programmes in the field of synthetic biology in the European area. A total of 16 countries are taking part in the project.
In the course of 2012 EraSynBio will launch a call for submissions of R&D proposals.
The precise timing has yet to be defined. Further information will follow.
New KTT Support
Implementation of new KTT Support – NTN call launched
The Board of the CTI is reorienting the strategy on KTT Support.
With the commencement of the 2013-2016 ERI Dispatch period, three elements will be introduced which are intended to provide sustainable support to the innovation activities of Swiss businesses:
- Support via national thematic networks (NTN)
- Support via innovation mentors (IM)
- Information and networking via physical and web-based platforms
The implementation of the new KTT strategy commences in March 2012 with the call for national thematic networks.
Detailed documentation on the NTN call under a selective procedure is available from the beginning of March 2012
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