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Would you like to present your Digital Health Start-Up? Do you want to win the jury or audience award? Take the chance and apply here for the Start-Up Pitching Session at the 5. Digital Health Lab Day.

The Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) offers an annual Award for graduates and scientists of a Swiss institution who work in agricultural research for development

Take advantage of this opportunity!

• The best PostDoc/team project wins CHF 10’000, the best Master thesis CHF 1’000.
• Submission is not complicated.
• The Award may help winners enter into development work, or receive funding.

For all the details on eligibility, application and selection please read the Award Guidelines.

Deadline for applications: 12 July 2023

You are working on a business idea in the field of energy-efficient building and living, sustainable consumption or climate-friendly travel?

Join the Züribox and learn how to successfully develop your idea.

The Venture Leaders – the members of the Swiss National Startup Team – have a clear-cut goal. They envision themselves as global players and want to take the first step to their global expansion. The Venture Leaders’ startup development program is specifically structured to help them achieve these goals. This intense journey offers 10 selected entrepreneurs an accelerated learning curve and a solid network through their exchanges with their peers in the team, as well as market exposure, feedback from investors and experts, and hands-on business development.

Venture Leaders Cleantech is a unique business development program to Munich to explore the international market, the potential for high-growth Swiss startups. It is an exclusive opportunity to be a part of a top entrepreneurial team, accelerate one’s business growth, and showcase Switzerland as a leading country for innovation.

A unique program
You belong to the top Cleantech startups in Switzerland and want to boost your future? Then apply to be one of the 10 members of the 2023 Swiss National Startup Team for a rocking week traveling to international Munich hotspots for cleantech, sustainable and efficiency innovation. Don’t miss the opportunity!

The admission process
Registration deadline: June 15, 2023
Register your project and apply for one of the 10 seats in the intensive entrepreneurship week training program in global innovation hubs.

Jury presentation: July 4, 2023
Personal presentation by the best 20 applicants in front of the jury (virtually).

Kick-off meeting: August 17, 2023
Kick-off event presenting the Venture Leaders publicly.

International Roadshow to Munich: October 23rd – 27th, 2023

Venture Leaders Cleantech is organized by Venturelab and supported by EPF Lausanne, ETH Zurich, EY, Helbling Technik, St.Gallisch-Appenzellische Kraftwerke (SAK), Swisscom Ventures, Vaud and Vischer.

The Venture Leaders – the members of the Swiss National Startup Team – have a clear-cut goal. They envision themselves as global players and want to take the first step to their global expansion. The Venture Leaders’ startup development program is specifically structured to help them achieve these goals. This intense journey offers 10 selected entrepreneurs an accelerated learning curve and a solid network through their exchanges with their peers in the team, as well as market exposure, feedback from investors and experts, and hands-on business development.

A unique program in Boston (September 2023)
You belong to the top Medtech startups in Switzerland and want to boost your future? Then apply to be one of the 10 members of the 2023 Swiss National Startup Team Medtech for a rocking week in Boston. Boston is the hotspot for health and medical devices in the US. Don’t miss the opportunity!

The admission process
Registration deadline: June 12, 2023
Register your project and apply for one of the 10 seats in the ten day intensive entrepreneurship training program in Boston.

Jury presentation: July 5, 2023
Personal presentation by the best 20 applicants in front of the jury in Lausanne.

Kick-off meeting: August 10, 2023
Kick-off event presenting the Venture Leaders

Trip to Boston (US): September 25 – September 29, 2023
Intense dive in Boston’s startup scene.

Venture Leaders Medtech is organized by Venturelab and Swissnex Boston and New York supported by EPF Lausanne, ETH Zürich, Hansjörg Wyss, Kellerhals Carrard and Vaud (Innovaud).

The THCS is a call for collaborative, transnational research, and innovation actions. It aims to support the development of new and innovative solutions that can address the current and future challenges facing health and care systems.

The objective of this call is to encourage the optimization of patient care pathways and contribute to the transition towards more sustainable, efficient, resilient, ethical, high-quality, and accessible person-centered healthcare systems. The call addresses the challenge posed by the increasing number of patients treated in hospitals or other healthcare facilities and the need to ensure continuity of care and offer better integration of hospital services with outpatient care (for more information please visit the THCS Website).

The THCS call is open to Universities, higher education institutions, research organisations, hospitals, foundations or any healthcare providers, user organisations, SMEs and large companies.