Smart Products for Automated Transportation - funding available

In October 2012, Switzerland and Sweden launched the industrial R&D partnering program Swiss-Swedish Innovation Initiative (SWII). The objective is to increase number of industrial R&D partnerships and the number of joint R&D projects between our countries. SWII's results so far: 29 market oriented R&D consortia and projects to a value of 37MEUR.

The next industrial R&D partnering program focuses on Smart Products for Automated Transportation. Among our industrial partners, who are interested in R&D partnering, you can find Ericsson, Autoliv, Saab, Bombardier, Swisscom, Postauto as well as the most technology intensive SMEs and academia partners like ETH Zurich and EPFL.

Project funding is available via Eureka and Eurostars, www.eurekanetwork.org

Following sub topics within Smart Products for Automated Transportation are prioritized:

• Tools for Smart Products
  Sensors and communication technologies incl. 5G, RFID and Emergency/Distress Communication, Data Management incl. Big Data & Simulation and Quality, Security & Standard.
• Smart Solutions for Automated Transportation
  Tools for Management of Complex Systems, Tools for Multi Modal Transportation, Autonomous Systems for Smart Cities incl. energy efficiency, Quality, Security & Standards.

The conference takes place on 28 September 2016 8.00 – 18.30 in Zürich. 
 
Five selected small and medium sized companies will have the opportunity to pitch their future ideas for participating industry partners, financiers and others. If you are interested in pitching at the conference, please contact Maja Zoric SPM, Business Sweden. 

More information on www.swii.org

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