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🔊 Call for Applications: free of charge workplace for start-ups in Büro Züri Innovationspark by Zürcher Kantonalbank!   🎉 Büro Züri Innovationspark by Zürcher Kantonalbank offers 16 flexible workstations for up to 6 startups, spin-offs and young companies 🙌 What's really cool about this? The startups can use the space free of charge and work at Europe’s prior pioneering hub for civil aviation - now a place for research, development and innovation. Your startup will benefit from the media presence generated by STARTUP CAMPUS Switzerland and Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich as well as from network events, modern meeting rooms and 24/7 access.   👉 Work together with inspiring founders and apply now until 30 September 2024: https://lnkd.in/dYE2_4jW

We’re so delighted to announce the latest initiative in #GlobalCollaboration —the #NextStep programme is in India! 🇨🇭💼🇮🇳 NextStep was launched in collaboration with the Cantons of #Vaud (VD) and #Zurich (ZH), as a new opportunity to add an international dimension to Switzerland’s Vocational Education and Training (VET). The aim is to create the best possible opportunities for #VET graduates in Switzerland to gain #InternationalExperience, learn from Indian innovators and elevate their #VocationalSkills. We’re thrilled that so many great Indian institutions like Ranga Shankara, Titan Watches India Official, Systemantics India Pvt. Ltd., Crankmeister Bicycle Works and Radisson Blu Atria Bengaluru have agreed to be a part of the programme and give the interns an opportunity to learn from the best. We believe so much in the programme, we’re thrilled that one of the interns will be spending the next 10 months with us at Swissnex in India. Meet Guilherme Estevam Vilela, Antoine Redard, Laurent Ammann, Damith Rulak, William Gordon, Thomas Joss and Léane Demierre Looking forward to their journey? Stay tuned to Swissnex India and learn more about their #NextStep. Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt Siddharth Bharath, PhD Jonas Brunschwig Lena Robra

🧪🧬 Our colleagues from the Science & Technology Office Seoul part of the #Swissnex network and their partners are organizing the 11th Swiss-Korean Life Science Symposium in Basel 🔬🧫 🌐 🤝 Under the theme “Unlocking the Power of International Partnerships: Personalized Health,” the Symposium aims to bring together Switzerland and Korea’s most innovative minds from public research institutions, leading hospitals, industry, startups, and thought leaders in healthcare and digital technologies. 👨⚕️👩⚕️ 📅 31 October 2024 📍Novartis Campus Basel, Switzerland 👉 Program and registration: https://www.skls.or.kr/ State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI KHIDI Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) Novartis Roche Switzerland Innovation Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Kanton Basel-Stadt #healthcare #lifesciences #swisskorean

🔊 Attention Swiss early-stage and pre- startups tackling problems related to oncology, pain treatment, or AI for health and drug development: applications to the Y Science Pharma Pitching Competition are open! 🎉 🤝 Let Swissnex take you to Helsinki to pitch to investors and scientists at Y Science and attend Slush, one of the world’s best startup events with thousands of investors and entrepreneurs. 🏆The finalists will receive pitching coaching, get a Startup Pass to attend Slush, pitch in the Y Science stage and in the #Swisstech Pavilion at Slush, meet potential investors, network with experts in the fields of their solution – and compete for the 5000 EUR prize for the winner! ➡ Apply until 23 September and check more info here: https://lnkd.in/e_J297JF #YScience is the official side event of Slush for Life Sciences, organized by the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with Orion Corporation and the Embassy of Switzerland in Denmark part of the #Swissnex network. #Opencall #PitchingCompetition #Pharma #PainTreatment #AIforHealth #DrugDevelopment #Startups #Slush

🎉 Congratulations to the selected startups! We look forward to welcoming you at Swissnex in Boston and New York 🤗

Today and tomorrow, in Switzerland and Japan simultaneously! ⬇ ⬇ ⬇

The Festival of Biologics Basel is Europe’s largest biologics conference and exhibition. The event is for the leaders of the world’s biologic drug developers and their most senior executives in charge of the latest tech and strategies that are driving the industry forward. Join us in Basel for 2024! Swissnex is the outreach partner of the Festival of Biologics Basel 2024, use the discount code SWISS20 to get 20% off your ticket 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4B7t7cg 📅 15-17 October 2024 📍 Messe Basel, Switzerland #festivalofbiologics

🤩 What an exciting week! After welcoming some of our (new and others not so new) #Swissnex colleagues 🤗 from around the world 🗺️ to our office at State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI in Bern, we took different paths and spread again to fulfill our mission: connecting Switzerland and the world in education, research, and innovation 💪 As Dr. Raphaela Oliver (奥丽) from Swissnex in China traveled to Shanghai ✈️ to kickstart her new position as Head of Innovation at our office there, our Art & Science Program Manager Gabriela DevaudPortasVilaseca from Swissnex in Brazil participated in a panel discussion at the Creative Economies Forum 2024 #CEF24 🎨 by the ZCCE Zurich Centre for Creative Economies and Fuelarts at ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Our Consulate of Switzerland, Swissnex in Japan CEO Dr. Felix Moesner, together with their new Junior Project Manager, Marko Radovic, and our HQ colleagues Daniel Dr. Egloff, Innovation Advisor, and Tatiana Benavides Damm, Project Manager, attended the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024  #TOP100SSU 🎉 by Venturelab in Lausanne and proudly represented our network at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Magazine 2024 presentation 🏆 And what happened at our offices worldwide during this time? 👀 Check out our monthly newsletter, hot off the oven ➡ https://lnkd.in/eNh6GMCp ⚡Register here to stay updated with our global news ➡ https://lnkd.in/ep8qvQKG

🤝 Meet our locations every first Thursday of the month – Canada edition! 🍁✨ Since 2013, Urs Obrist has been the Senior Science and Technology Counselor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Canada as part of the Swissnex network. He has built a vast stakeholder network that allows the advancement of Swiss interests in Canada and the Bahamas and is supported by the Science Officer Tamara Shtanova, RCIC at the General Consulate in Vancouver and the team of the Consulate General in Montreal. 🇨🇭🔗🇨🇦 Switzerland and Canada share many similarities, such as federalism, multilingualism, and the ambition for academic excellence. Canada is a key partner to Switzerland in many multilateral collaborations, for example, at CERN in Geneva, the European Space Agency - ESA, and most recently, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory. On the bilateral level, the Science Counsellor was instrumental in formulating a Joint Statement on #Science, #Technology, and #Innovation with Canada in 2018. lt underlined the increasing importance of mutual interests in these areas. The Statement was renewed in April 2023 during a visit of a high-level scientific and economic delegation from Switzerland to Canada. The delegation was led by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, who signed the agreement with his Canadian counterpart, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne. The renewed Statement accentuates the shared topical interests such as #Quantum science and technologies, #ArtificialIntelligence, #LifeSciences and #Health, and #Climate and #Sustainability. ⚛️ 🤖 For Quantum and AI, the letter of intent signed during the delegation visit between the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) has quickly become operational. ❄️ 🌐 A Memorandum of Understanding between the Swiss Polar Institute and the Institut nordique du Québec was initiated during a two-day symposium on polar research in 2016. It has underlined the shared interests in climate change and symbiotic interests. 🧑⚕️ ⚕️ In the life sciences, a series of Swiss-Canadian Innovation Days (SCID) has already occurred over the past seven years and shed light on neuroscience collaboration, personalized medicine, and open science. In December of 2023, the focus was on the relevance of health data for better health outcomes. 🚀🌟 Initiatives such as the highly praised InnovationFest on #Cleantech this spring in Vancouver, scientific lunches in Montreal, the mutual recognition of diploma with Québec, participation at the Acfas congress, science diplomacy club, or a forthcoming internationalization start-up camp and Swiss-Canadian Quantum Symposium speak to the highly dynamic and ambitious activities with a like-minded partner country.  Connect with our team👉https://lnkd.in/erfSCP2P

Swissnex in Brazil embarked on a transformative journey into the #Amazon, driven by a shared vision of #sustainability and #biodiversity. After extensive collaboration with local experts, this vision gave birth to #nexBio Amazônia. The program brought together Brazilian and Swiss startups, researchers, and Amazon communities, culminating in a dynamic two-week pilot in July 2024. Want to know more? Check out the recap below ⬇⬇⬇