A CSEM challenge for Swiss SMEs: take part in the Digital Journey

The CSEM is putting its expertise at your disposal by offering to support the development of your project to the tune of CHF 100,000.

Participation is easy: just check that your idea can benefit from the technological building blocks and submit your project by September 10.

The winning company will receive its boarding ticket on November 7 at CSEM's Business Day in Neuchâtel. We wish you 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, PLR National Councillor.Les Libéraux-Radicaux

 

GUIDELINES

Conditions of participation

• Your company's headquarters must be located in Switzerland.
• Your company must have no more than 250 employees.
• The project submitted must correspond to the technology bricks made available.
• The deadline for applications is September 10.

Procedure

• An internal pre-selection will be carried out to check the suitability of candidates for the technologies made available.
• The jury of experts will make an initial selection of five finalists.
• The winner will be announced on November 7, at the CSEM Business Day.

 

PROFITS

• The five finalists will receive a proposal for the realization of their project in the form of a demonstrator.
• The five finalists will have the opportunity to present their projects at CSEM's Business Day on November 7.
• The winner will receive a contribution of CHF 100,000 from the CSEM in the form of working hours.

 

TO PARTICIPATE

You can submit your project in English, German or French. Your proposal must include the following information (maximum 500 words):

• Your digital idea (related to a product, process or service)
• The commercial potential of your idea
• Estimated time to market
• CSEM technologies concerned (see portfolio)
• Expected demonstrator

You can add appendices if you feel they are important for the jury.

Please send your entry in a PDF document of no more than four pages.

If you are interested, don't miss this opportunity and send your idea to digitaljourney@csem.ch.