Start Your Digital Journey with CSEM Neuchâtel

CHF 100’000 support will be for you.

Leveraging its technology portfolio, CSEM will support you in its realization with CHF 100K worth of support. It’s quick and easy: make sure that your idea matches our candidate technologies, and submit your project by 9 September.
The selected company will get its “boarding pass” on 7 November on the occasion of the CSEM Business Day in Neuchâtel. Good luck!

JURY

Chaired by Georges Kotrotsios, CSEM, VP and Head of Marketing and Business Development

  • Nicolas Bürer, Digital Switzerland, CEO
  • Silvio Bonaccio, ETHZ, Head of ETH Transfer
  • Marc Grüber, EPFL, VP for Innovation
  • Raphaël Rollier, Swisscom, Digital Innovation and Transformation
  • Robert Rudolph, Swissmem, Head of Training and Innovation
  • Christian Wasserfallen, Member of the National Council, FDP.The Liberals

GUIDELINES

Conditions for participation

  • The company must be based in Switzerland.
  • The company must have up to 250 employees
  • The company must have a product/service/turnover
  • The proposal must fit with the selected technologies
  • The application must be delivered by September 9, 2019

Procedure

An internal preselection will be conducted to ensure that:

  • The company complies with the conditions of participation
  • The CSEM can meet the company’s expectations
  • The CSEM will select a maximum of 10 candidates and send these files to the jury
  • The jury of experts will initially choose 5 finalists

The name of the winner will be published on the occasion of CSEM Business Day, on 12 November 2019.

BENEFITS

The finalists will have the opportunity to deliver an elevator pitch at CSEM Business Day on 12 November, 2019.
CSEM will award the winning company CHF 100K worth of support.

CSEM support

Please note that in some cases the project may require a longer development time. In this case, CSEM will specify at the beginning that its support will be dedicated to pre-development.
Intellectual Property – CSEM policy will be applied for the development

The city of Neuchâtel is famous for its lake and alps view and for its long tradition of watchmaking and microtechnology –  the ideal location for the the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM).

Source: Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM)
Image: Courtesy CSEM // Photo: Innovator’s Guide Switzerland
Check for all details here: https://www.csem.ch/digitaljourney


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