🤩 Meet the participants of the Academia-Industry Training 2025/2026 🤩 💡Behind each of the startups selected for the AIT 2025/26, stands a researcher with a #story, a very personal #motivation, a #question, or a problem too important to ignore. This is why, instead of introducing the startups the usual way, we asked them a few questions to get to know the people behind the projects. 💫Their answers reveal a group of very curious, bold, and #reflective thinkers and #researchers who take #risks, #learn fast, and pursue their #ideas with deep personal #commitment. #Together, they embody #Switzerland’s #pioneering and creative approach to #innovation💫 🔎 Curious? Check out the interviews! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTK56rcJ Constantin Krüger, Alpion Cryo Solutions I Romain TRIHAN, CeraSkin I Luc Bondaz, DeltaSpark I Kunaljit Chadha, Impact Build I Selen Ercan Jenny, LAYERED I Juxhino Kavaja, nuorail I Paulius Viskaitis, Skaaltec I Federico Martinelli-Orlando, TALPA Inspection - Robotic Corrosion Assessment for Critical Infrastructure I Kanika D., Renuro (UROPATCH) I Sébastien Le Fouest, Windworks Stay tuned as we follow their journey from Switzerland to India and back in the coming weeks and months. 🌏 Interested in participating in the next #AITIndia – sign up for first hand information here 👉 https://lnkd.in/edQv9g9m STARTUP CAMPUS Switzerland I Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland I ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften I ETH Entrepreneurship I EPFL Innovation Park I EPFL Startup I HSG START Accelerator I Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich I Switzerland Innovation I UZH Innovation Hub I Innovaud I India Swiss Association I Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce I Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan I Amanda Strub I Annina Graf I Nicole Minder I Atul Kavitake
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For Swiss-based researchers and sciencepreneurs seeking to make an impact across borders. The Leading House South Asia supports your international research project in nine South Asian countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, The Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka - and gives you the opportunity to discover the Indian startup ecosystem with your early-stage startup.
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🚀 Research-Partnership Call open now🚀 👉 Are you a Swiss-based researcher, Professor, PhD, or Postdoc eager to start or deepen collaboration with partners from our nine South Asian countries? 💡The Research Partnership Grant enables researchers from diverse fields and countries to collaborate on joint projects and advance cross-border research. 🔗 Find all details here: https://lnkd.in/eR3_rr9v 📅 Application deadline: Nov. 21, 2025 (midnight). We are looking forward to many inspiring project proposals! 🌟 ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften I Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland I Embassy of Switzerland In Nepal I Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan I REPIC I Berner Fachhochschule BFH I Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI) I University of Lausanne - UNIL I Universität Zürich I ETH Zürich I EPFL I HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland I Universität St.Gallen (HSG) I Universität Basel I Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW I Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSLI Eawag I FHGR Fachhochschule Graubünden I Lena Robra I Nicole Minder #FundingOpportunity #ResearchCollaboration #ResearchPartnershipGrant #SwissLeadingHouseSouthAsia
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🚀 New and innovative research funding opportunity! 📢 The Swiss Leading House MENA is launching a new thematic call for projects “Research in Crisis-Affected Contexts: Continuity, Participation and Reconstruction”. 💥Across the MENA region, many universities and researchers continue their work despite disruptions caused by conflict, displacement, and instability. While research alone cannot resolve such complex crises, it plays a vital role: generating knowledge, informing action, guiding policy, fostering dialogue, and supporting community participation. 🤝This call supports Swiss and MENA researchers in co-developing impactful, context-aware projects that build equitable partnerships, embrace a transdisciplinary approach, and deliver lasting, practical impact by engaging key stakeholders. 🎯 Grants of up to CHF 20’000 will support initiatives that address relevant challenges including (but not limited to): 🔹 Sustaining health, education, and social systems during crises 🔹Addressing the multifaceted impacts of conflict and displacement on communities 🔹Rebuilding infrastructure and managing natural and community resources 🔹Supporting social and economic recovery through research-informed action 🔹Promoting reconciliation, justice, memory, and cultural renewal Submission deadline: 23rd January 2026 Project duration : up to 12 months Latest project start date: August 2026 💻 Join our upcoming webinar in December to learn how to conduct research in fragile contexts and get answers to your questions about the call. More information and registration will be available soon. 🔗 For more information visit the Swiss Leading House MENA website hosted by HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale: https://lnkd.in/eZ9NaWAb #InternationalCollaboration #SwissResearch #MENAResearch #ResearchFunding #CrisisResearch
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✨ Every startup has a story ✨Some #inspire, some #surprise, and some still wait to be told. 🚀 Last week, our ten selected startup founders embarked on their next journey as we officially kicked off this year’s Academia Industry Training (AIT) journey. Over two inspiring days, our cohort explored: 📖 How storytelling can turn complex ideas into powerful pitches – thank you Stefan Huber and Jyoti Guptara, story strategist for guiding us through this art. 💡 What we can learn from each other’s journeys as founders – thank you Barbara Horvath, Timur Ashirov, Ph.D. and Amanda Strub for your openness and insights! 🌏 What to expect when doing business in India – from business etiquette to Bangalore traffic! Special thanks to Juan Piffaretti for sharing expertise from your time at Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland, and Atul Kavitake for guiding us on how to prepare best for the trip. 👑And finally, thank you to this incredible and inspiring group! 💡 The #AITIndia thrives because of its participants, their openness, and the team spirit they create together - and you all nailed it! 🚀Next stop: Bangalore 🚀 ✨@Kunaljit Chadha, Impact Build ✨Luc Bondaz, DeltaSpark ✨Selen Ercan Jenny, LAYERED ✨Constantin Krüger, CryoSolutions ✨Paulius Viskaitis, Skaaltec ✨Romain TRIHAN, CeraSkin ✨Juxhino Kavaja, nuorail ✨Kanika D., UROPATCH ✨Sébastien Le Fouest, Windworks ✨Federico Martinelli-Orlando, TALPA Inspection - Robotic Corrosion Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Annina Graf I Matthias Filser I Emanuel Lüthi I Atul Kavitake I Nicole Minder I Sandra Nonella I ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften I STARTUP CAMPUS Switzerland I Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland
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Design Researcher & Strategist | Co-Lead, MA Eco-Social Design (HSLU) | Co-Director, Social Design Network | PhD, Berlin University of the Arts
Introducing Lowlands: A Blog on Eco-Social Literacies The convergence of ecological and social crises places urgent demands on design education. While eco-social design is gaining traction, the literacies needed to practice it remain underexplored. Lowlands, our new blog at ecosocialdesign.ch, hosts conversations, explorations, and reflections from a collaboration between researchers and students of Eco-Social Design at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and National Institute of Design. We approach literacies not as a checklist, but as a plural, evolving framework. Together we ask: What should design graduates be able to do in the coming decade? And how might such literacies be taught, practiced, and embedded across diverse educational settings? One of the first conversations is with Jesko Fezer – who will also be a keynote speaker at the Social Design Network Conference 2025 in Lucerne. We talk about partisanship, local engagement, and the limits of design’s transformative promise. More conversations will follow soon. We hope to spark dialogue across the community about the futures we are preparing for — and how. This work is supported by the Swiss Leading House South Asia. Master Design HSLU Karin Fink Shilpa Das Sahil Thappa HSLU & NID - PhD Programme Eco-Social Innovation by Design HSLU Forschung Design Film Kunst Social Design Network #EcoSocialDesign #DesignEducation #SocialDesign #DesignLiteracies #FutureLiteracies
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✨ It’s always inspiring to see the projects supported by the Swiss Leading House South Asia come to life! 🚀Don’t miss the 5th EthnoKino Film Festival in #Bern and #Meiringen next week by Dr.Eda Elif Tibet and her team!
COME AND JOIN US at the 5th EthnoKino Film Festival 💫 Magic 💫 Bern & Meiringen Edition (9-14 September 2025) 💥 A Cinematic Pluriverse into the Extraordinary This year, the 5th edition of the EthnoKino Film Festival embarks on a cinematic journey into the theme of “Magic”, opening its portals in Bern and Meiringen, two Swiss locales steeped in myth, memory, and alpine mystique. Nestled between the heart of the capital and the dramatic landscapes of the Hasli Valley; home to legends of dragons, wild women, and elemental spirit, the festival invites audiences to explore the invisible threads that connect worlds seen and unseen. With films arriving from across the globe from the Tundras, the Amazon, and the Australian deserts to the cosmic realms and the Ladakhi Himalayas to India, this year also features a special focus: “An Inquiry into the Pluriverse.” Supported by the Swiss Leading House South Asia this curatorial thread highlights indigenous filmmakers and visionary works from India, inviting audiences to engage with diverse cosmologies and ways of knowing. Previously, from May to August, EthnoKino spread its wings to the caves of Cappadocia, where filmmakers from around the world gathered to rediscover the meaning of heritage, magic and mythology. It busked through the bohemian streets of Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s cultural capital, and offered a unique opportunity to a select group of filmmakers during an inspiring retreat held in Ascona alongside the Locarno Film Festival. Their works were celebrated during a red-carpet award ceremony in partnership with the 2291 Foundation. Through the lens of ethnographic cinema, the festival explores how the magical manifests across cultures in ancestral rituals, sacred landscapes, ecological imaginations, and acts of spiritual resistance. From remote shamanic ceremonies to everyday enchantments hidden in urban life, EthnoKino curates a powerful lineup of films and discussions that reveal the symbolic, the surreal, and the sacred woven into the human experience. EthnoKino’s Bern and Meiringen edition carries us to become more than a film festival it is a portal for storytelling that bridges mythmaking, magic and meaning, offering a space for wonder, dialogue, and deep reflection in times of transformation. Kai Damian Matthiesen Aniruddha Das Pooja R Bhale Aashish Xaxa (Ph.D.) şenol şen Muziwanele Thando Ngwenya Carmela Daza Aparna Sanyal #EthnoKino #EthnoKinoFilmFestival #CinematicPluriverse #Bern #Meiringen #Switzerland
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💫Personal connection is key to lasting ties and to successful joint #research and #innovation between #India and #Switzerland. 💫 The Swiss Leading House South Asia has been playing an active role in enabling these personal connections between #Swiss and #Indian #researchers and #innovators over the past years. We are excited to continue this journey and to actively shape the future of Indo–Swiss relations in #research and #innovation together with our partners in #Switzerland and #India. In this complex landscape, we are one stone in the mosaic - together can we create lasting impact. ✨ A heartfelt thank you to everyone for an inspiring day full of possibilities, ideas, and potential! Maria Peyro Voeffray Catherine von Wyl Dr. Angela Honegger Myriam Cevallos Torsten Schwede Amanda Strub Silvio R. Lorenzetti Leena Arora Kukreja Jordan Girardin Dominique Gruhl-Begin Aparna Shukla Reema Roshan Dhananjay Singh Innosuisse Department of Science & Technology, Government of India ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF
Strengthening Switzerland–India ties in science & technology Today, Switzerland and India held the 7th Joint Committee Meeting on Science & Technology in Bern. Since the signing of a bilateral agreement in 2003, our countries have built a strong foundation for research and innovation cooperation. Both sides underlined the successful track record of the partnership and expressed their commitment to making future cooperation more strategic and long-term. To the press release: https://lnkd.in/dkRU3MVk
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🚀 India, we are coming! 🚀 👑 After an inspiring, highly competitive Jury Day, we are excited to announce the 10 Swiss-based startups joining the #AITIndia 2025/2026 edition! The jury faced a tough call, the pitches were all very #inspiring, #creative, and of high quality. To all participants: Thank you for putting your ideas on the line. Choosing only ten was no easy task. 🎉 Welcome on board of the AIT India 2025/2026 🎉 ✨Kunaljit Chadha from Impact build ✨Luc Bondaz, PhD Bondaz from DeltaSpark ✨Selen Ercan Jenny from LAYERED ✨Constantin Krüger from Alpion CryoSolutions ✨Paulius Viskaitis from Skaaltec ✨Romain TRIHAN from CeraSkin ✨Juxhino Kavaja from nuorail ✨Kanika Dheman from UROPATCH ✨Sébastien Le Fouest Fouest from Windworks ✨Federico Martinelli-Orlando from TALPA Inspection - Robotic Corrosion Assessment for Critical Infrastructure 🙌 We can’t wait to see how you transform vision into real-world impact and shape #indo-#suisse #innovation! 💖 A heartfelt thank you to our jury members Regula Buob, Ritah Nyakato Baldegger, Matthias Filser, Atul Kavitake, Amanda Strub for your time, sharp questions, and expertise. 📢 And because good news loves company: AIT India will be back next year. Curious already? Details and the waiting list are here. Sign up and get first hand inormation about the #AITIndia 26/27 👉 https://lnkd.in/exs75APY STARTUP CAMPUS Switzerland I Swissnex in India, Consulate General of Switzerland I ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften I ETH Entrepreneurship I EPFL Innovation Park I EPFL Startup I HSG START Accelerator I Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich I Switzerland Innovation I UZH Innovation Hub I Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan I Innovaud I India Swiss Association I Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce I REPIC I ZHAW entrepreneurship
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💫 Turning #curiosity into #connection and connection into long-term #cooperation 💫 We believe that lasting collaboration starts small: a shared idea, a conversation, a seed of trust. 💡Learn more about our #priorities, #funding instruments, and how the Leading House South Asia positions itself within Switzerland’s #research and #innovation funding landscape. Thank you to Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI for highlighting the work of the Leading House South Asia and its role in Switzerland’s international research and innovation landscape through this interveiw with Amanda Strub, Head of the Leading House South Asia at ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. 🔗 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ePzefCst To learn more about our activities, visit: https://lnkd.in/eJTcRfX8 #LeadingHouseSouthAsia #SwissScience #ScienceDiplomacy #ResearchCollaboration #AITIndia #InnovationAcrossBorders #AcademicCollaboration #innovation
Since 2017, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) has been intensifying research and innovation cooperation with partners in South Asia on behalf of the Swiss Confederation. In this interview, Amanda Strub sheds light on the priorities and projects of this organisation. Swiss Leading House South Asia To the article ⬇️
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Ready to take your research to Switzerland? 🇨🇭 Applications are now open for 2 research-based scholarships, offering paths for ambitious students and researchers: 🔹 ThinkSwiss Research Scholarships – Fully funded 2–3 month research stays in Swiss labs for bachelor’s & master’s students from India, Singapore, Brunei, Australia & select Pacific Island nations. 📅 Deadline – 31 Jan 2026 🔗https://lnkd.in/gJ5jVxCw FAQ - https://lnkd.in/gU2swRGC 🔹 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships (ESKAS) – One-year (renewable) research, PhD, or postdoc opportunities at Swiss universities & research institutes for talented early-career researchers. 📅 Deadline – Check country-specific deadlines 🔗https://lnkd.in/eGwn7GTs FAQ - https://lnkd.in/gd23YsCY Your Swiss chapter starts right here. #SwissResearchScholarships #ThinkSwiss #ESKAS #StudyInSwitzerland #SwissExcellence State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI Leena Arora Kukreja Purva Marwaha Lena Robra Smriti Chawla Dr. Angela Honegger Tristan Piguet Joël Henri Brunner