State Secretariat for Education and Research SER

Press releases

29.09.2009

Official launch of research cooperation with Brazil

16.06.2009

Swiss-Korean meeting on the implementation of the government programme to encourage bilateral research cooperation

22.01.2009

04.12.2008

Agreement on capacity building and research partnership between Swiss and Ethiopian institutions in the fields of science and technology

28.08.2008

Tangible steps taken to develop research cooperation between Switzerland and South Africa

07.08.2008

State Secretary Mauro Dell'Ambrogio opens Swissnex Shanghai, Switzerland's outpost for science, technology and culture in China

SER News

SER - Newsletter September 2009

Education cooperation to join research cooperation as a European endeavour • Implementation of the Bologna Declaration: Taking stock and looking forward • Building democracy to foster science and politics • Scientific and technological cooperation with South Korea takes form • Twenty years of Swiss-Chinese scientific and technological cooperation • ESA satellites Herschel and Planck to explore the origins of the universe

Publication

Mid-term review 2007-2008 of the Swiss participation in the 7th EU Framework Programme

Available data show that Swiss researchers come out on top among European counterparts in the competition for ideas.

1. swissnexDay

"swissnex – showcasing Swiss excellence around the world"

Through its network of Swiss Houses for Scientific and Technological Exchange (swissnex offices), Switzerland has an innovative and targeted instrument to further its scientific foreign policy objectives. On 10 december 2009 the State Secretariat for Education and Research in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences welcomes to the 1. swissnexDay in Winterthur.

Parliamentary debate

Reform of the Swiss Higher Education Landscape

With the Swiss Higher Education Landscape project, the Confederation and the cantons seek to revise the current higher education system, which is comprised of cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and federal institutes of technology.
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Research

Call for project submissions for third series of NCCRs, all themes to be considered

The Federal Council Dispatch on the Promotion of Education, Research and Innovation for 2008-2011 calls for a new series of NCCRs starting from 2010. Applicants have until 15 December 2008 to submit their outline proposals and until 1 September 2009 to submit their full proposals.